Manning is the ass. And you of course.

is making a broke old homeless man pay him for his garbage that he threw out. While being a millionaire who’s married to a millionaire. He’s a complete and total dick head and there is no nicer way of putting it. He has his camera crew shoot at photographers. What a stand up guy.

Brady’s a selfish, whiny, snobbish dick, and nothing more. Get over it.

And I have no problem believing that TB knows very little of what this all is. I’d bet that some Brady staff flunky (body guard, security guard, butler, pool boy, whatever) saw the video and thought, oh, crap, I HAVE TO GET THAT BACK! Calls to the police, using the right names, get results. He probably does not know what day his garbage goes out and cannot locate the nearest grocery store or dry cleaners without help. It’s pretty likely he has people handle this stuff for him.

I would think that TB and his agent are savvy enough to know that going easy on this guy, and maybe even giving him a couple tickets to make up for the stress, would go a LONG way to making this better, but prosecuting will make worse in the public’s eye.

Agreed on the security cameras on the garbage—paparazzi suck—film them whenever you can. The camera are probably on a driveway or service entrance gate, and the garbage is nearby. What surprises me a bit is the physical security—no idea where he lives, but in my neighborhood the fabulously wealthy (lots more than Brady) and snooty put up gates on access to their property and even the garbage lives inside those gates until it is put out for the trash men. So if these pots WERE specifically put out, then I can believe even more easily that some flunky realized he blundered and didn’t want to get in trouble for putting something valuable out in the trash, now some poor sap is taking the heat for it. Actually, the is a noir novel in this incident…. In one chapter Gisele makes a pass at the guy as he gets out of jail, then he is framed for the murder of Randy Moss. Out of the frying pan, into the fire. Classic noir tale.

Until we hear an actual quote from TB saying something like “I can’t have everybody picking throug my garbage so I had to make an example out of this guy,” I’d cut him a little slack. There’s plenty of reasons to kick him in the virtual nuts for; this might not be one of them. (so far)

He is a modern day Joe Montana in the sense he rode the talent of his supporting cast (though you can hardly call Rice “supporting cast”) and his terrific coach, then…I still don’t agree with you. Montana was still better.

And what does the number of rings his team won for him have anything to do with being an a-hole his entire adult life?

“Please explain to me why that was the right thing to do…” after he’s hit one of his brothers, or done something else reckless or thoughtless. I may just be dorkier!

I’d rather not set up too many humans as role models (thanks, Charles Barkley) because they all have flaws, Peyton too. If I can just get him thinking about how and why something might be right or wrong, I think it’ll work out. Now if I were Todd Marinovich’s dad trying to make my son a robo-QB, I’d be all over the Peyton comparisons.

On the flip-side, we could say “what would Todd Marinovich or Art Schlichter do?” and do the opposite!

I’m a dork like that too.

But then I realized much of that was because he was the star of a rival team.

If he played for the Pats I would probably be more forgiving of some of the things that make him unlikable. Same for Brady. If he played for the Colts I might well find some of the things about him unlikable.

I don’t know Peyton Manning. I don’t know Tom Brady. I suspect they are much like you or me. They have done a lot of good things and made some mistakes as well. Hopefully they are in good with the Lord in any case.

But they are both phenomenal football players. They use this ability to bring thrills to we who appreciate the game of football. And that’s what really matters.

So, I don’t hate Manning or the Colts anymore. In the heat of the moment during what has been a rivalry for the ages it was easy enough to get cranky about it. But upon reflection it has been the highest form of football excitement. I’m grateful for this great great rivalry we have had. When these guys are gone we will all look back and appreciate it all the more.

The Colts have gotten the short end of the stick as far as how truly great their teams have been and what they have to show for it. But even though the Pats have had more success they still had to endure the Tyree catch. How would you like to have that BS happen to you? And spygate took a bit of the joy out of the enjoyment no matter how bogus the charge.

So these days I just hate the stealers. They truly are loathsome.

to you for catching that little nugget. The guy who did this is no victim. He’s an ex-con. Some lowlife trying to make a sleezy buck, nothing more. Did this guy actually think people ordinarily “throw out” scrap worth $450? What a load of malarkey. This punk knew exactly what he was doing and got off easy.

He’s too much of a gentleman for that. It was his ass, though….

Yes, I am kidding. I don’t recall the details, but a 20 year-old in college and a 30 year-old public figure are very different things. It doesn’t make what he did right, but I find it hard to come down too hard on 18 for the incident. It also doesn’t seem to be part of a pattern. But I digress….

Back to the real “issue,” I’m willing to bet that when this all plays out, somebody working for TB was putting out garbage and put it out in these expensive metal containers by mistake, never dreaming that somebody would steal the “garbage cans.” When they did, he was justifiably worried about his job. I officially now feel sorry for EVERYBODY involved in this.

The only game I remember Brady re-entering against the Fish was a game where Cassel was stinking up the field. No crime there.

Here is the game in question, a 49-28 victory over the 0-5 Dolphins in 2007. Cassel’s first, and only series, came with 11:28 to go in the 4th quarter, up 42-14. He was in for 1 series, throwing an INT for a TD (I’m sure you know all this), making it now 42-21 with 10:30 to go in the game.

Then Brady comes back in the game, passing on 3 of the 5 plays on the next drive. AdvancedNFLStats tells us that the Win Probability went unchanged after the INT for a touchdown, at 99% for the Patriots. Brady most certainly came back in a blowout game, to pad his stats. Was it necessary for him to be chucking balls 20 yards down the field to Moss or Welker?

would you love to believe it? You want him to be bad?

I don’t want Manning to be bad. I just want him to throw lots of interceptions ;).

with a security camera? They should have just pumped some crowd noise into the area and it would have scared the thief off ;).

Colt’s fans for being bitter. They only have one ring to show for a decade of great football teams. And it took the greatest comeback ever to get even that one. I feel their pain, so I try to be gentle.

He’s at least got part of his life back. Now he can beg for important things, like food.

Dungy has done that kind of stuff many times.

this guy should pay some price for just walking on to private property, deciding what was trash, taking it and selling it.

Forty hours of community service would suffice. He could talk to kids and warn them not to go just grabbing stuff you think is trash and selling it.

(the debt has been paid on his behalf, so this is moot really)