Tom Bradys email cache revealed as part of his federal appeal: interesting?
Last week, Tom Brady’s four-game suspension was upheld by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. Goodell’s decision, it seemed, revolved around the cover-up for Tom Brady’s Deflated Balls of Lies and all of the sketchiness around his phone, text and email records around that time (January-March of this year). Brady issued a lengthy denial and the NFLPA appealed Goodell’s ruling to the New York federal court. You can go here read Deadspin’s coverage of the inside-football part of the case (Brady’s lawyer sounds like such a bro). In the context of this appeal, many of Brady’s emails and texts have been released publicly. And there’s some interesting gossip stuff in here, which I wanted to cover. Some highlights:
So many emails about his $8,500 winter pool cover: “What kind of morons don’t have a white cover? Can we check with another company?” Brady wrote to his manager, after whining on e-mail, “These f--king idiots, why don’t we have that same cover for the year-round cover?” Later, Brady writes: “G decided on gray and order is in.” Gisele gets the final word on pool cover colors.
Brady on Peyton Manning: “I’ve got another 7 or 8 years. He has 2. That’s the final chapter.”
Checking in with a Tom Ford exec in October 2014 to see what hot, new fashions she had for him: “I was wondering if there was anything new to show me or any updates on the polos with the rugby fabric. Also, do you have any black sneakers in the high top in my size or any suit fabrics?”
Vancouver Canucks hockey team owner Francesco Aquilini: Aquilini begged Brady to go to dinner and Brady used that as an opportunity to ask for money for his foundation: “I do have one request. I am starting a foundation ... to educate all athletes on sustained peak performance.”
Emails to and from Bridget Moynahan. She emailed: “Isn’t it cool that jack got a reading award!? he gets to wear a reading star pin now too. so proud.” Brady replied: “He is such a smart boy. And he is a hard worker. I’m so proud of him.”
Deadspin was doing a lot of coverage of the email dump too – go here to read. There were a lot of sycophantic emails from other athletes and sports-adjacent people telling Brady to stay strong in the wake of Deflategate. Gossip-wise, all that means to me is that Brady surrounds himself with a lot of people who worship him and not a lot of people who tell him #HardTruths. It’s also sort of nice to see that after all of the drama, Tom, Bridget and Gisele have found a way to have a respectful co-parenting situation. Gisele even emails Bridget separately sometimes:
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— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) August 5, 2015
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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