New England Patriots’ quarterback Tom Brady may be under fire from many sides in the Deflategate saga, but he picked up an unusual defender Wednesday: Canadian hockey commentator Don Cherry (who, it should be noted, is a former coach of the Boston Bruins who still wears ties from that team). Cherry’s Twitter account is known for long multi-tweet rants, and he unleashed an amazing one about Brady and the Patriots Wednesday afternoon, saying that because Brady is “rich, good-looking, married to a supermodel” and “the greatest quarterback who ever lived,” he’d have no need to cheat, and also getting the identity of the Deflategate game wrong (it was the AFC championship against the Indianapolis Colts in question, not the Super Bowl against the Seattle Seahawks):
1) The 4 game suspension of Tom Brady has been in the headlines more than anything else. There’s no hard evidence but it’s suggested he
— Don Cherry (@CoachsCornerDC) August 5, 2015
2) he cheated to win the Superbowl. He’s accused which to me is unfair. Lets go over why the media is so agreeable to go along with the
— Don Cherry (@CoachsCornerDC) August 5, 2015
3) the suspension. This is my opinion to what happened and everyone is entitled to an opinion. The subject Tom Brady has a lot against
— Don Cherry (@CoachsCornerDC) August 5, 2015
4) him: he’s rich, he’s good looking, married to a super model, great athlete, winner and MVP of the Superbowl. He is one of the most
— Don Cherry (@CoachsCornerDC) August 5, 2015
5) confident athletes I have ever seen. Do you really think he would cheat to win? He would think that an insult. Me, Tom Brady, has to
— Don Cherry (@CoachsCornerDC) August 5, 2015
6) stoop to a chintzy thing like deflating the football to beat Seattle. If you want to blame anybody, blame the league for not having the
— Don Cherry (@CoachsCornerDC) August 5, 2015
7) footballs under their control. For instance, when I was at the Jays game, visiting Josh Donaldson, the umpires invited me into their
— Don Cherry (@CoachsCornerDC) August 5, 2015
8) room. I noticed a basket full of baseballs ready for the game. They were under their control. How could the NFL let the footballs be
— Don Cherry (@CoachsCornerDC) August 5, 2015
9) be under the control of the home teams? Bush league for sure. Tom Brady is not a cheat. Now people in the organization, I don't know.
— Don Cherry (@CoachsCornerDC) August 5, 2015
10) But Brady has too much to lose. Besides he was better in the 2nd half. Brady, I feel is protecting the 2 kids that were in charge of the
— Don Cherry (@CoachsCornerDC) August 5, 2015
11) footballs. He is taking the hit for them. That’s what you would expect from him. Come on folks, the greatest quarterback who ever lived
— Don Cherry (@CoachsCornerDC) August 5, 2015
12) lived tells somebody to deflate the footballs so he can win? Give your head a shake.
— Don Cherry (@CoachsCornerDC) August 5, 2015
This is pretty much the perfect Don Cherry bingo card, covering accusations of media agendas against certain successful players, unrelated off-the-field characterizations of athletes, incorrect facts (accusations about Seattle rather than Indianapolis), name-dropping of the athletes he talks to, unrelated anecdotal evidence (“baseball has the umps keep the balls!”), lower-down scapegoats, hyperbole (“the greatest quarterback who ever lived”) and repeated phrases (“give your head a shake”). If only there was a way for him to blame this on European players or women being allowed in dressing rooms…
No one’s going to hire Cherry for his NFL analysis any time soon (although putting him and Deion Sanders together might create a wardrobe explosion that destroys a few cameras), but thanks to Twitter, we all can see his glorious rants on non-hockey subjects, 140 characters at a time. Hey, maybe that other noted Brady defender and Boston sports guy should have Cherry on a podcast sometime…
[H/T to Patrick Johnston]
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