(… and get your own, darn’ed breakfasts! I’m going to bed…)

1. Mothers are supposed to protect their children. Children aren’t yet adults and parents do have to step in, guide and give opinions.
2. Gisele used insulting language and unfairly attacked her husband’s teammates.

Gisele should be smart enough to know:

1. Her husband isn’t perfect every game and sometimes his receivers save his bacon.
2. Her husband is very dependent on 7 linemen to keep some very huge guys from knocking the snot out of him on every down.
3. Anything she says about her husband or his team has tremendous potential to end up in the media.
4. Cursing is boorish behavior that makes her look small.

Sure, we can understand her frustration, but she ought to have put aside her feelings for what was best for her husband in that circumstance. That was his day. His deal. If he wants to call out the receivers after the game then let him make that decision and live with the consequences. You know this is going to make things difficult for him. Opponents will be chiding him after sacks, “Hey, Tommy, do you need your wife to come out here and protect you.” And, whether it’s true or not, his receivers have to wonder if Gisele hadn’t heard that complaint from Tom himself, and was merely parroting something he said.

I’m just very, very, very tired of famous people (people famous for nothing more than standing in front of a camera and/or repeating lines other people write for them) insulting folks. Can you imagine Staubach’s wife dropping f-bombs and insulting Roger’s teammates? Bart Starr’s wife? Dimaggio had a wife every bit as famous as Brady’s. I don’t remember her publicly dressing down the Yankees for poor play.

Is it a big deal? No. Is it sign #1,837,426 of how much our culture has slid in the past half century? Yes.

It’s slight, but “The Music Man” is really just about a guy selling instruments and uniforms in a small town and “Guys and Dolls” is about two guys making a bet. Heck, “Les Miserables” is basically about a guy stealing a loaf of bread! Most musicals have simple plots. It’s what happens around the plot that makes them entertaining.

Look, I understand that she was being jeered by some rude fans, and that must be frustrating. But that’s got to be a pretty minor difficulty compared with all the advantages of being a professional athlete’s wife. About the only thing you have to avoid in that position is insulting your husband’s teammates or team management.

Well, I just bing’ed Tom Brady to find out what he earns and I guess his wife is more famous than I thought. She made $45M last year and he made $18. So, I guess maybe that does change her perspective, but I don’t think it should. I don’t think she’d appreciate Brady insulting photographers or designers she works with. She ought to give him the same consideration, regardless of income.

My guess is these guys got started that way; using jump suits with more and more extra material, until they graduated to base jumping.

Regarding this I can recall my mom saying things about a coach and a team that I played for that got back to me that just embarassed the crap out of me. My mom was not famous or a supermodel but she loved me and she saw thing through that lens which I am sure is the same lens Gisele is using. SO she did something dumb…being famous doesn’t exempt one from that (see POTUS). I honestly don’t understand what the big deal is. She said something dumb, move on nothing to see here.