Tom Brady haters are going to hate
A brief pandemic of Brady Derangement Syndrome spread across social media Sunday night and it had nothing to do with the beat-down delivered by the Baltimore Ravens.
Tom Brady ran into fellow GOAT Ed Reed before the game and allegedly dropped a stylized version of the “n-word” after he called the Pro Football Hall of Fame cornerback his “kryptonite.”
So said the narrative that infected social media Sunday night while the Patriots searched for an offensive line and a defensive clue.
Brady and Reed hugged — we’re back to reality, now — before the NBC video cut away.
The clips are out on the internet and — as always — you’re free to decide for yourself what you think you heard and what you didn’t.
NBC picked up on this latest outbreak of Brady Derangement Syndrome and posted a version of the video with added subtitles.
Now, I’m not one to believe everything I see on NBC after watching Matt Lauer play nice with Katie Couric, Ann Curry and Samantha Guthrie all those years. But in this case, the Peacock got it right.
“Oh man! They had to bring you here! They know you’re my Kryptonite and they’ve got to bring you back,” Brady was quoted as saying by NBC.
"They know you're my Kryptonite!"- @TomBrady to Ed Reed pic.twitter.com/CF3yfLCXVD
— SNF on NBC (@SNFonNBC) November 4, 2019
If anything, the audio is clear in determining what Brady did NOT say.
“WATCH: Tom Brady Didn’t Say N-Word While Greeting Ed Reed,” posted Heavy.com in the most SEO headline of all time.
Only terminal Brady Derangement Syndrome patients could believe Brady dropped the “n-word” to Reed’s face before seeking an embrace. If this was indeed the case, it’s hard to imagine Reed responding with open arms instead of a closed fist.
Common sense is a rare commodity on Twitter and nearly extinct during Patriots games. And “Loss of Common Sense” is the first visible symptom of BDS.
Since there was a possibility — in the clouded minds of some — that Brady said THAT WORD to Reed and was CAUGHT ON VIDEO BY NBC, the temptation to propagate that narrative hit a fever pitch.
Bradyphobia is widespread among the NFL masses. Much of it is rooted in Brady winning. Envy being a deadly sin and such. But Brady Derangement Syndrome is hate-based. Those hobbled by it cannot see anything positive in Brady’s life.
The first symptoms of Brady Derangement Syndrome surfaced in February 2002 as John Madden opined that Brady should take a knee or two instead of leading the team to a game-winning drive against the Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI.
It continued as the Patriots won three Super Bowls in four years and the “real” credit was routinely given by the NFL Intelligentsia to the defense and Bill Belichick.
A new and more virulent strain of Brady Derangement Syndrome was developed in 2007. The Patriots’ quest for perfection failed because Brady stunk out the joint in Super Bowl LII — even though his TD pass to Randy Moss gave New England the lead with 162 seconds left in the game.
In the meantime, Brady fathered a child out of wedlock — an NFL first — and married a super model.
The largest Brady Derangement Syndrome outbreak occurred after the Ideal Gas Law caused the Colts to lose the January 2015 AFC Championship Game 45-7. The Brady-led comeback Super Bowl against the Seahawks two weeks later proved nearly fatal for some older and more infirm Brady Derangement Syndrome patients.
The months-long Deflategate saga gave hope to the long-suffering, as Brady took a four-game suspension. Brady Derangement Syndrome was declared “no longer a threat” by the Centers for Disease Control once the Falcons took a 28-3 lead in Super Bowl LI.
But it since returned — stronger than ever.
The Patriots had not lost for 329 days before Sunday. For Brady Derangement Syndrome victims, that must have seemed like 329 years.
“We love the haters,” Brady famously said last season.
And in the case of Brady, there’s a lot of them to love.
Bill Speros (@realOBF) can be reached at bsperos1@gmail.com.
from Boston Herald https://ift.tt/2NjR7RX
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