Dear God! Tom Brady Is In A Boot!

Wow, I was hoping I could hold out longer than a day before I started writing about the Super Bowl or NFL again, but I'm a weaker man than I thought. There just isn't anything else going on right now.

The first "big story" of this Super Bowl season was the boot that Golden Boy Tom Brady was seen walking around in yesterday while in New York. Yes, that's right. Tom Brady had a boot on his foot after the Patriots beat the Chargers on Sunday. But why?

I have no idea. Maybe Richard Seymour stepped on it.

I mean, the Patriots list Brady on their injury report every week even though he's not hurt, so I figure it's highly possible that Brady was faking the whole thing just to mess with the Giants.

Of course, if Tom's going to try and pull that one off, he should probably be smart enough to wear the boot when he goes out later that night with Gisele.

But do you see what happens here? Are we so desperate as sports fans that we just can't go back to our normal lives for the two weeks in which we don't have football?

Who really cares if Brady is wearing a boot the day after a playoff game? Maybe you forgot, but football players are generally sore the day after a football game. It's true. Something about violently hurling your body into men who are doing the same thing to you for three and a half hours tends to be hazardous to one's health. In all likelihood, Brady got off easy. Sure, he has a boot on, but at least he's out and about walking around and buying flowers for his girlfriend.

There were probably other Patriots, or Giants, or Packers, or Chargers, who couldn't get out of bed at all yesterday. I know Philip Rivers didn't, or at the very least, he didn't want to, but more on that later.

For now, just know that Tom Brady is going to be fine, and that nothing you hear or read over the next two weeks really matters. Well, nothing you hear or read that doesn't come from me anyway.

Foul Balls

The More On That Later - I haven't really been a big fan of Philip Rivers in his time in San Diego. The way he's constantly running his mouth, be it to opponents or opposing fans, just kind of rubs me the wrong way. Not because I have a problem with trash talking, that couldn't be further from the truth, it's just the fact I've always felt like Rivers is riding the coattails of his defense and LaDainian Tomlinson and acting like he's driving the car.

Then Rivers came out on Sunday in obvious pain, and had he had Tomlinson to help him out in the red zone, he may have been able to pull off an upset over the Patriots. I earned a lot of respect for him for it, and now that the true scope of his injury has been made public, I respect him even more.

Philip Rivers' anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee is “totally gone” and he will have reconstructive surgery soon.

The recovery time for the surgery is not known but Rivers said he definitely will be 100 percent by the start of next season.

The man played without an ACL. All week the Chargers had been saying he had a sprained MCL, the same injury as Tomlinson. Turns out, Rivers had to have arthroscopic surgery last Monday just so he could play this week. He effectively put his entire career on the line to try and help get this team to the Super Bowl, and now I understand a little more as to why his teammates stick up for him.

Some White Sox Moves - I wrote about it at FanHouse last week, but the White Sox made it official this morning and announced they've signed Octavio Dotel to a two-year deal.

They also signed Cuban defector Alexei Ramirez to a four-year deal.

Of course, to add players to your roster, you must subtract players from your roster, which is why the Sox also had to designate David Aardsma for assignment.

The White Sox have 10 days to trade Aardsma, who after coming south from the Cubs was awesome in April, and terrible from there on out last season. With the additions of Dotel and Scott Linebrink, there's just no point to keeping him around.

Will Leitch Is Everywhere - My friend and Deadspin editor (when introducing himself he prefers to be introduced as Tom Fornelli's friend), Will Leitch has a book coming out today. If you haven't already bought it, you should go here and buy it.

Of course, when you have a book coming out there's that big whirlwind promotional tour you have to go on. There are book signings, radio interviews, articles for Penthouse, there's just a ton of shit you gotta do.

Sometimes you even have to go on television.



I think Will did a fantastic job there, but mostly because he was able to go an entire 5 minutes without punching that long-haired douche in the face. I don't think I could have done it.

Also, for those of you in the Chicago area who have bought the book and want to get it signed by the internet legend that is Leitch, he'll be at the Borders Bookstore in Oak Brook on February 11th at 7PM. The next day he'll be in Champaign at the Illini Union. So go there and behold greatness.