GLENDALE, Ariz.
— Media day is becoming a babe fest. We’re not talking about Tom Brady here. We’re talking about all the women who show up to Super Bowl media day for apparently no other reason than to swoon over Tom Brady.
The number of ladies sporting tight skirts, long, bare legs and spaghetti-stringed tops while posing as journalists increased noticeably — and noticeably is the correct term here — during last season’s Super Bowl, which was held along the South Beach shores of Miami.
The Super Bowl moved to the desert this year, yet the journalist throng became even more attractive for media day here Tuesday.
The players, naturally, call on these female inquisitors much more frequently than they do us wrinkle- shirt, pot-bellied wretches who want to know if the Giants’ pass rush can defeat the Patriots’ spread offense.
One pretty lady in a white wedding dress stood near the back of Brady’s media pack and asked the Patriots quarterback to marry her. Naturally, Brady heard her question.
“I’ve never had a proposal,” Brady said with his charming smile.
That’s because Miss Nevada hadn’t reached his podium yet. Near the end of Brady’s hour-long interview session, a female “journalist” wearing the Nevada sash also asked for his hand in marriage. Supermodel Gisele Bundchen should know the ladies went 0-for-2 in their attempts to heist her beau.
This outbreak of female beauties, and their silly questions, has stirred a common reaction among the otherwise jaded, sorely misshapen and mostly male media: Yoo-hoo!
“What’s your name, first?” Brady said to the woman in the wedding dress.
Oh, how this man is smooth.
“A beautiful name,” he said.
Sheesh. Give us a break, Tom. But no, Brady told the woman in the white dress he’s a one-woman man. The temptation from us wisecrackers was to ask Brady if he could once again review the chronological order of his last date with Bridget Moyna- han and first date with Gisele. None of us had the guts.
“But if anybody had an opportunity to marry you he would be a lucky man,” Brady said.
The woman in the wedding dress later submitted the same marriage proposal to Giants quarterback Eli Manning. Eli was polite, but he’s a little too real, not to mention engaged, for such gimmickry nonsense.
It should be noted there were plenty of professional female journalists who addressed substantive issues. And Brady was just as kind, if a little less charming, to them.
