A Day in The Life of Tom Brady: Thursday, September 9th

Here’s an interesting article I came across on the web detailing Tom Brady’s recent car accident on Thursday, September 9.  It sure does shed some light on the Patriots’ offensive field general.  I thought I'd repost it here. 

AP – Boston

New England Patriots quarterback spoke Monday morning for the first time about the car accident he was involved in on Thursday morning, saying he was “scared more than being rushed by Ray Lewis” when his Audi sedan crashed into a minivan which, according to witnesses, had run a red light. 

"I'm telling you, when it happened, I didn't even know what to do, because you're just in shock," Brady said during his regularly scheduled interview on Boston sports radio station WEEI on Monday morning. "I was kind of sitting there in the car, looking around, trying to get my bearings.

"And then I got out of the car and I saw a woman had suffered cardiac arrest from the scare.  I knew I had to act quickly so I initiated CPR and got her vitals back to normal.  It was nothing anyone couldn’t learn in two hours at the neighborhood community center.   Then I was looking in the other car to make sure they were OK.”

“The guy next to me says, ‘Hey, do you think we should call 9-1-1?’  And I said, ‘God, that would be a good idea, wouldn’t it?’  So I did what anyone else in my situation would have – I used mental telepathy to contact the paramedics.”

Brady, who escaped from the accident unharmed, said the paramedics acted professionally at the scene, attending to a passenger in the minivan who needed to be hospitalized before requesting autographs from the New England signal caller.

Attorney Samuel Reef told reporters that 49-year-old Rogerio Rodrigues’ condition has worsened.  The Fall River resident was lying down in the back of the minivan driven by his adult son when the collision happened. 

Police waited for “the jaws of life” to extract the victim from the vehicle, but short of time, Brady just ripped open the roof with his bare hands in order to free Rodrigues.

Brady said Monday that, aside for his safety at the time of the crash, he also feared for the well-being of another bystander, a woman who was out walking her pet tiger near the intersection where the accident took place. 

"After the paramedics arrived, I saw a woman and I said, 'Are you OK?' And she said, 'Yeah, I'm fine, but I’ve lost my baby."  After locating the scared tiger atop a tree along Commonwealth Avenue, Brady climbed up to retrieve it. “The lady’s kitty was up in the tree.  What was I supposed to do, leave it there?”

The three-time Super Bowl champion admits to being frightened by the possibility of having to answer to a higher power on that day.  “I was just thinking, 'How am I going to -- I've got to call [Coach] Belichick, I'm going to be late [for practice].’”

When reached for comment, the typically reticent Belichick said, “He was late to practice, that’s all I know.” 

Before being checked and cleared to leave the scene, Brady noticed the minivan had knocked over a street lamp which he then repaired with some sort of heat-vision.

Upon reaching the Patriots practice facility in Foxborough, Brady was pulled aside by owner Robert Kraft to inform him of his new $72 million contract extension which Brady promptly donated to a charity helping smuggle families out of war-torn Darfur and setting them up in Hollywood to forge careers in the movies. 

“It was surreal.  People think I’m somehow superhuman and don’t get affected by all this, but I’m just like everybody else.  I was so excited that I was able to come home and see my supermodel wife Gisele and my son . . . that felt good," Brady said. "I got in a crash, I came home and I said, 'God I'm just fortunate to be able to be here.' That's really a blessing."

Police say part of what may have helped Tom was his seat belt . . . the other part, of course, being his Justin Bieber-like hair and matinee idol good looks.  “It’s one of those intangibles that many people don’t think about when they get in their cars,”  Officer Frances Pearson said. 

The lesson he learned from all of this?

"Man, wear your seat belts," Brady said. "And just try to be me.  That's all I can tell everybody. You never know."