Aye. Hell, if I were Brady, and Bridget Moynihan were trying to trap me, I wouldn't struggle too hard.
Posted on 02/21/2007 4:32:22 AM PST by Chi-townChief
Tom Brady, Mr. All-American, says he's ''excited.'' You bet.
Informed that actress and ex-girlfriend Bridget Moynahan is three months pregnant and he is the impregnator, the three-time Super Bowl champion quarterback and purest man in the world -- or rather, his agent, Tom Yee -- said, ''Tom and his family are excited about the pregnancy.''
Wow.
They're not excited about the mother or a possible marriage or any kind of meaningful union between copulators.
They're excited about the fact their son/brother/relative has active sperm.
Maybe the Brady family also is excited about the late-night talk-show jokes that are brewing as I type this.
Maybe they're excited about Brady's current squeeze, pouty-lipped Brazilian lingerie model Gisele Bundchen, who could become the nanny for the baby, if not the actual stepmother.
Not that Moynahan is giving this child up.
She made no secret of the fact she wanted a baby when she and Brady were hooking up, excuse me, dating.
''I've been on this career thing for so long, and you look at all your friends who are finally getting married and having kids,'' she told Boston Common magazine last fall. ''I believe in balance in life, so I think I can do it all.''
No dad doesn't cut it Never mind the oxymoronic essence of that last statement, the part Moynahan is missing is that pesky part about family. Having a baby is one thing. Having a baby without a legitimate father is another, entirely.
For years that province -- of children born out of wedlock or raised without a married birth father -- has been perceived as the province of the poor and the minority.
Read, at its most vexing, black.
To a degree, this is fact.
Without getting into the sociological and economic elements that create such a trend, know that about 16 percent of white kids grow up without fathers but a stunning 51 percent of black children do.
Brady, 29, named one of People magazine's ''50 Most Beautiful People'' in 2002, is not the marrying kind. At least not now.
Hope that doesn't shock you, Bridget and Gisele.
But the shocking part to the world is that here is Tom Brady of the New England Patriots with those twinkling blue eyes and Cleaver-family upbringing -- Charles Pierce's recent biography, Moving the Chains: Tom Brady and the Pursuit of Everything, all but anoints the young man -- and he's just out there sowing seed like every other irresponsible rascal.
We'll leave it to Madison Avenue to decide whether Brady's action will affect his endorsement deals -- with Nike, Visa, Sirius, among others -- that bring him an estimated $9 million a year beyond his large Patriots contract.
The troubling part is not the gossip and all the rest of the giggle-inducing tawdriness of this little scene.
It is that babies in our modern American world have become items and baubles, things to have or not have, depending on the whim, mood, naivete, intoxication level, desperation and silliness of the two people involved.
That Britney Spears is the mother of two children, with her shaved head and utter instability, is about all we need to know of the children-as-accessories mental state.
Moynahan said, via her publicist Christine Papadopoulous (this is how rich celebs communicate, you know), that she is ''healthy and excited.''
Of course, no mention was made as to whether the fetus was equally as thrilled.
It was back on Dec. 14 that Brady and Moynahan announced, through a (what else?) statement, that they had parted ways ''several weeks'' earlier.
It's easy to joke about Doing a little language and math work, I see that several means more than two but not many, so the pair must have broken up sometime around, say, mid to late November. This being late February means Tom Terrific gave three-months-pregnant Bridget a last-fling going-away present.
One could laugh at all this.
Just as one could laugh at fellow superstar -- and equally white and All-American -- quarterback Matt Leinart, who impregnated a fellow student in his last year at USC and never had much interest in her, beyond the obvious.
But the devaluation of children is the real issue, the carelessness with which they too often are brought into the world.
And the current thought espoused by many that little boys don't really need dads in their lives at all -- that loving women and maybe a thoughtful male coach at the rec center will suffice -- is pure nonsense.
As syndicated columnist Leonard Pitts wrote recently, there is this pernicious idea among certain headstrong females and careless males ''that the father is unnecessary, that so long as there's some uncle around to show the boy how to hit the mark in the toilet, everything is hunky-dory.''
It's not.
Witness our jails and our poverty lines. Witness our schools.
Tom Brady has shown that the real issue is not race or wealth at all, but personal responsibility.
If I were a member of black America, I wouldn't exactly be laughing at Brady's sexual mistake.
But I'd be hard-pressed not to smirk.
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LOL...I know about those shot guns here in the South. But I think when it comes to famous professional athletes it is a lot harder for them to even consider settling down. No matter how many kids the woman may have.
Aye. Hell, if I were Brady, and Bridget Moynihan were trying to trap me, I wouldn't struggle too hard.
One reason this idea is so prevalent is because far left, race-baiting assholes like Pitts and this columnist have joined up with the feminists and democrats and have spent decades proclaiming that fathers are unnecessary or even dangerous, and that women and children are better off having the man replaced by a government check. You want to whine about why so many kids don't have fathers, Telander, look in a friggin' mirror to see one of the reasons why.
Funny how this same newspaper comes down on Tom Brady, but Jesse Jackson writes articles all the time and if wasn't for a frozen condom, he would have never claimed his daughter.
I'm not sure we all do know right from wrong anymore, since the culture's message to modern people is that promiscuous sexual activity is fine, so long as it is "safe", and that traditional, lifelong committed marriage is nothing special and is just one of many equally morally acceptable options. Neither Brady nor the media act as if there are any moral difficulties about this situation.
Should he have said that he rip roaring pissed at the b@tch for getting knocked up???
Get over yourself.
Yup. Yesterday Rush mentioned some study that showed sports doesn't build character..................
More likely teaching children to hate their president does?
What goes around really does come around (sometimes).
A deer ran in front of her motorcycle and permanently fixed situation for me.
Yep, that's all a daddy & a mommy provide.....allowance so you got spare change.
See #30 & #32 about the race piece.
He could have said no comment or other things that would not have sounded this ridiculous.
I'm assuming she didn't survive.
It's like a lightning BOLT coming out of the sky!
He should have the child tested for paternity before assuming the mantle of fatherhood - unfortunately to protect himself and his assets.
The father is Kevin Federline who left his previous girlfriend who was pregnant with their 2nd child at the time for Britney. He's true scum of the earth.
They both are unfit parents but Britney has a much better chance of being a good mother as Kfed only wants her money and will sell their kids for more money from her.
Kfed is a man ho.
Rae Carruth was so excited about the baby with a girlfriend (not even an ex), he hired hit men. And in no way am I saying Brady is anything like Rae - your statements just reminded me of him.
So you're saying Bridget raped Tom? That's the only way this was a man trap.
When the father is Kfed who will sell his rights for more money in the divorce he is not a fit father.
Britney is screwed up right now obviously has had some kind of crisis.
Kfed is scum of the earth.
Ironically he ignored his previous kids before Britney insisted they be part of their lives as they are brother and sister to their children.
Unless the woman raped the guy he is just as responsible.
Or she could have saved his sperm as allegedly happened in the Boris Becker case - at least according to some reports.
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