By Fernie Ruano Jr.
It’s another breezy, overcast fall afternoon in Brookline, Mass. as a bubbly pack of hair stylists and photographers spill out of a black SUV and right through the front doors of a 14,000-square foot, white brick mansion where 13-year-old Vivian Lake Brady, her long blonde hair split by ponytails and thin frame hidden behind a red cheerleader’s outfit, is in the kitchen caressing a pair of pom poms while patiently waiting for a modeling shoot to commence.
Vivian’s famous Brazilian mother, who for decades graced the covers of countless catalogs and strutted down runways for the largest American lingerie retailer in the world, is away on business and her father, the man visible through the sliding doors and sporting a full gray beard and slight limp, barely flinches as he tries to keep pace with the well-fed Labrador retriever roaming the backyard.
Tom Brady, 47, his left index finger glistening with the help of a Super Bowl XLIX championship ring, is wielding a plastic football over his head.
It will arrive sooner than later – the day Tom Brady is reduced to sitting for his beautiful daughter, chasing his best friend in the backyard and watching Andrew Luck set just about every quarterback mark in the NFL Record Book, if he’s into that sort of thing a decade from now.
It’s going to happen. The day when Luck, the fire-balling dude with the bushy beard that so far, and unfortunately, has made Jim Irsey look like a football genius, owns six all-time passing records and three Super Bowl rings, is coming. Whether it’s five years from now, in 2020 or in 2026, the day when Andrew Luck owns 23 barber shops in Indianapolis, has a lifetime contract with Gillette, co-host a syndicated radio show with Lindsay Czarniak and is staring back at your son as your son spills cereal all over his polo shirt at 6:30 am on a Wednesday is coming.
But it’s 2015 and Brady still has the best beard in all of football, and you have to respect a man with beautiful facial hair, especially a man that is arguably the league’s MVP, at 37, has the services of the best tight end in the game, screams really nasty words in your face when he gets a chance even though he looks like he should be delivering your paper in the morning, goes to sleep every night laughing at Peyton Manning, has the luxury of sitting on the bench to watch an exceptionally-schemed defense make the opposing quarterback miserable while the most underrated linebackers in the game fill the middle of the field like bees around a chocolate chip cookie, is playing his next game at home and is going to his sixth Super Bowl because the Indianapolis Colts do not have anything close to resembling a running game or a linebacker capable of slowing down Rob Gronkowski. Therefore, Tom Brady is going to Glendale, Arizona to play another football game next month. New England 38, Indianapolis 27
And Bill Belichick will be consumed figuring out a plan to stop Russell Wilson from running outside of the tackles and making sure Marshawn Lynch does not permanently injure one of his defensive players by running over him since we already saw the Green Packers play at CenturyLink Field this season and now how it all turned out. But if you think a quarterback on one leg and with no running game is going to help reverse the fortunes of his respective team four months after getting beat by three touchdowns in the same venue, good luck to you..
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