Sunday Night’s loss to The Indianapolis Colts marked the end of what was a pretty amazing season for The New England Patriots. The Pats were only a big play (or two or three or six) away from making it to the Superbowl where the would have most certainly vanquished The Chicago Bears. Remember that they accomplished this feat in an injury-plagued season in which they had $15 Million to spare before hitting the salary cap: something truly remarkable in modern football americano.
Flashback to March of last year when my sister Shoshana was spending her semester abroad at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Figuring to take a quick break from her studies, Shoshana and her friends trekked down to the Negev Desert to hike Masada—a 2000-year-old fortress where Israelite Warriors once held off the entire Roman Army for over a year. As if experiencing the heroic history of her people wasn’t enough excitement, my sister happened to run into a Boston-Area CJP tour that included Tom Brady and Bob Kraft. I can only imagine that he visited Israel in order to find my sister and get her autograph, but according to the All-Pro Quarterback himself, “I couldn’t pass up on the opportunity to visit Israel as there is so much to learn about the Country.”
Now let us examine the facts…In 2005 after winning his third Superbowl in four years, Mr. Brady shocked the world when he told reporters that he was “discontented” with his life. How could this be possible given that he was one of the world’s premier superstars, dating beautiful Hollywood actresses, and a multi-millionaire to boot. Perhaps he was tired of living of life void of deeper meaning? Or perhaps it was far simpler and he was just bummed out that his girlfriend at the time, Bridget Moynahan, kind of looked liked a dude in that crappy movie “The Recruit” that she did with Colin Farrell. Either way…the following season was by no means a flop, but it hardly reached expectations as Brady and The Pats were swiftly eliminated by Denver in the Wild-Card game. Shortly after that loss, Mr. Brady traveled to Israel for a week where he had a wonderful time as evidenced by this quote, “I think its important to leave here not only realizing how special [Israel] is, but also to share it with other people.” And now as we look back on this season where The Pats were unfortunately eliminated in the AFC Championship game, it all becomes clear. Rather than perpetuate the downward spiral he was destined to follow, Mr. Brady made the career-changing decision to visit Eretz Yisrael. Rejuvenated for what would most certainly be a difficult season, Mr. Brady was able to bounce-back and carry The Pats further than anyone expected.
Now picture this: Brady visits Israel again this Spring, is spiritually strengthened by his time in The Holy Land and comes back to lead The Pats to an unprecedented, undefeated 19-0 season and their Fourth Championship in Seven Years, culminating in a Super Bowl in which he passes for nine touchdowns and throws a ball into the announcers' booth that hits John Madden in the noggin, causing the fat idiot’s head to explode like a Gallagher Sledge-o-Matic Watermelon and the poetic end of Madden’s moronic insights—the team that scores the most points is probably going to win the game—and “Boom! Tough-Actin Tinactin” commercials forever!
In Conclusion—Tom Brady said that he really liked Israeli hummus, but probably not as much as my Dad does. Also Jimmy Carter is a shmuck who needs to get his facts straight: http://camera.org/
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