This is the only place where I’ve heard it discussed at all.I'm being 100% honest when I say SoSH is the only place in which I've read reactions that deviate from "that was hilarious" regarding the roast. Fox likely doesn't give a shit.
This is the only place where I’ve heard it discussed at all.I'm being 100% honest when I say SoSH is the only place in which I've read reactions that deviate from "that was hilarious" regarding the roast. Fox likely doesn't give a shit.
My point was that Tiger has some REAL demons that would make for epic roast material. But you're right, he'd never do it and I can't see a lot of the other iconic sports superstars doing it. This kind of stuff is really meant for comics. I'm still surprised Brady is walking a lot of this back, though. I get he's still trying to feel his way around a post-playing career, but this seemed an avoidable miscalculation if it really ended up being that way in his eyes.Tom Brady is a VERY public figure, with a strong PR department. You cant go ten days without seeing him at an event or in an ad or commenting about something. Tiger Woods is a very private person, and folks like that won’t ever do a roast.
Exactly. I pretty much lost all respect for Tom Brady. He's an egomaniacal wad. And he's fucking stupid.It’s fucking nuts that he did this in light of what his kids must think watching it and listening to others comment on it. Forget whatever thought process led him to expose HIMSELF to this ridicule - he decided he DGAF if his kids had to deal with it.
Lost all respect for the greatest athlete in New England sports history, the greatest QB of all time and likely one of the most prominent figures in the NFL for years to come because he let his ex wife who publicly tried to get him to quit playing and then left him for another man when he didn’t, get made fun of at an event where everything in his life was supposed to be scrutinized, picked apart and insulted. Wow…Exactly. I pretty much lost all respect for Tom Brady. He's an egomaniacal wad. And he's fucking stupid.
So you are not the target audience for any of this and are predisposed to hate anything involving the NFL. And you hated something involving the NFL. Surprising, tbh.Yeah dude. I don't watch the NFL and haven't for about 8 years.
His kids didn't need this as part of their lives no matter how rich they are. No matter what pillows they can rest on.
Tom Brady is a fucking moron. And yes, also the greatest quarterback of all time.
What would you put in there? Concussion water, avocados and Uggs?So he should start giving out gift baskets to his dates?
Yeah, he never should have let her do that.The dumbest thing Brady did was let his smoking hot supermodel wife engage in a sport in which you writhe on the ground and sweatily tangle yourself in your opponent. Shocked, that lead to other things.
Exactly, because he owns her as a part of the misogynistic rules implied in the unwritten laws of marriage…Yeah, he never should have let her do that.
Laundry is a powerful drug .Lost all respect for the greatest athlete in New England sports history, the greatest QB of all time and likely one of the most prominent figures in the NFL for years to come because he let his ex wife who publicly tried to get him to quit playing and then left him for another man when he didn’t, get made fun of at an event where everything in his life was supposed to be scrutinized, picked apart and insulted. Wow…
Letting his ex be the butt of a few jokes at a ROAST doesn’t crack the top 500 of perceived shitty things an NFL player has done after retirement.
I sincerely hope some of you stop watching football altogether because of this travesty. How dare the NFL let this man be a role model for the sport after such injustice. His poor children now have to cry themselves to sleep on their Versace pillows while they question what mommy was doing with Uncle Joaquim all that time. Had this roast not happened they never would have known that mom and dad had some issues.
Please fucking stop with this bullshit. This thread is becoming a bigger joke than anything Glaser could serve up. It belongs in V&N where I won’t have to look at it.
The dumbest thing Brady did was let his smoking hot supermodel wife engage in a sport in which you writhe on the ground and sweatily tangle yourself in your opponent. Shocked, that lead to other things.
He’s always come off as pretty naive to me. Roasts are pretty much two things: 1) money grabs and 2) vanity plays. The whole point is to give attention to the roastee and that’s obviously what Brady wanted - attention.My guess is that Brady agreed to do it for exactly the reasons we think he did — money, and because of the powerful pull of the spotlight for retiring great athletes.
I would also guess that he went into thinking he was a good sport who could handle it and so those things made it worth it to him. But he probably did not really understand that when you get roasted, people adjacent to you can be collateral damage. Or if he understood it, it was abstract. Whereas it was real the morning after.
Which probably makes him different from exactly zero percent of all roast victims. Unless they are super desperate for money or a career pick me up, I would think if most roastees truly understood, like it was the morning after, who would take shrapnel and how it would play out, they would probably have thought differently about signing up for it. It is a wonder they get them to sign up in the first place. They must play on your vanity.
All of which is to say that it is easy after the fact to cast Brady as a narcissist who put his vanity above the interest of the people in his life that didn’t sign up for it and for which it was possibly hurtful or uncomfortable. But I just don’t think it’s necessarily appropriate to judge this stuff in hindsight. It doesn’t tell us what was really in their hearts or minds at the time they thought it was a good idea.
We may have to contend with some “I’m ready for my closeup” moments from Tom as the spotlights move to others, but it is also easy to overreact a little.
"Think of the children" (also "What about the children?") is a phrase that evolved into a rhetorical tactic. Used literally it refers to children's rights, as in discussions of child labor. In debate, this plea for pity is wielded as an appeal to emotion which constitutes a logical fallacy.
I mean, Brady was a huge part of our lives. I just think he's become very strange.So you are not the target audience for any of this and are predisposed to hate anything involving the NFL. And you hated something involving the NFL. Surprising, tbh.
He’s been strange for a long time. Like since 2008 and he got weirder and weirder. He’s now trying to undo it which isn’t working great.I mean, Brady was a huge part of our lives. I just think he's become very strange.
When the NFL sided with a certain faction of our society, that's when I stopped watching.
This place has become super cynical over Brady. He threw a ball and he made a lot of us very happy for a long time. Enough for me. Don't need him as the ultimate role model for all the children of the world.This thread is weird.
His kids weren't put in an awkward situation. They already knew their mom cheated on their dad. Everyone already knew their mom cheated on their dad. It's not that big a deal. Among their social circle, I have no doubt that everyone's parents are cheating on each other. Their parents are celebrities. They have to be used to the fact that people say mean things about them all the time.While I don't exactly have a ton of empathy for Giselle, it is fair to criticize Brady for putting their kids in an awkward situation. He could have agreed to the roast while nipping any Bridget/Giselle jokes in the bud early on. But that's his cross to bear, and he has at least acknowledged he could have shown better judgment. On the whole, the roast was entertaining and funny, and it didn't really change my opinion of Brady. As noted, non-NFL viewers were not the target audience. And most sports celebrities aren't the kind of people we would want to hang out with on a regular basis anyway, and that's something I made peace with long ago.
There are a million reasons why it wouldn’t ever happen but Belichick getting up there and roasting Kraft over his tugging incident would have brought the house down. Brady taking that off the table was a disappointment to me.The takes here are a bit odd. This is a roast. It followed roast rules.
That said, only a handful of the roasters were actually funny, even in the wide-open no-holds-barred roast format. Mostly because the fallback was tripling down on gay jokes, which don't get funnier the more over the top they get. . .certainly not after the 20th joke. From what I watched Gronk got roasted more than Brady.
They also didn't really go for the gut - the fundamental stupidity of football. The closest they really got was the crypto thing, which is more like individual athletes blowing money. Which is one of the reasons Glaser was better than everyone else - she sent up the "Perfect QB" line in a couple of ways.
So it wasn't really one of the great all time roasts.
I mean, imagine Gilbert Gottfreid or Anthony Jeselnik up there.
This would only happen with AI. And I would definitely watch.There are a million reasons why it wouldn’t ever happen but Belichick getting up there and roasting Kraft over his tugging incident would have brought the house down. Brady taking that off the table was a disappointment to me.
There's no real reason why it shouldn't have happened. . .except this wasn't really a true roast in a sense. It was a Netflix money-maker-thing in roast-format.There are a million reasons why it wouldn’t ever happen but Belichick getting up there and roasting Kraft over his tugging incident would have brought the house down. Brady taking that off the table was a disappointment to me.