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Brady has only married once ....

And is still married...

I was just teasing AM - as I'm sure she knows. Thus the " :P ".

 

I have negligible interest in the private life of either QB. It was obviously an allusion to his famously changing partners in a manner that infuriated gossip column devotees around the country, but the reality is that I'm more likely to be infuriated by the fact that gossip columns exist in the first place than by the details contained therein. It's a waste of precious brain space.

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I was just teasing AM - as I'm sure she knows. Thus the " :P ".

I have negligible interest in the private life of either QB. It was obviously an allusion to his famously changing partners in a manner that infuriated gossip column devotees around the country, but the reality is that I'm more likely to be infuriated by the fact that gossip columns exist in the first place than by the details contained therein. It's a waste of precious brain space.

Well said.

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Says more about ESPN...that it is covering this in the first place...than anything else.  Just more evidence that ESPN is morphing into a pop culture network that wants to focus upon the 19-34 year old spending demographic than really being a sports network. 

 

They cover sports players the way paparazzi cover actors.

 

 

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Says more about ESPN...that it is covering this in the first place...than anything else.  Just more evidence that ESPN is morphing into a pop culture network that wants to focus upon the 19-34 year old spending demographic than really being a sports network. 

 

They cover sports players the way paparazzi cover actors.

 

 

You just now figured that out? You're pretty late to the party. They've been bad like this for a very long time.

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Says more about ESPN...that it is covering this in the first place...than anything else.  Just more evidence that ESPN is morphing into a pop culture network that wants to focus upon the 19-34 year old spending demographic than really being a sports network. 

 

They cover sports players the way paparazzi cover actors.

Not sure any sports network is doing their job if they just cover the play on the field. We all want to know our athletes off the field so I think this is par for the course. And really they were just reporting on a statement that was released by Wilson.

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Not sure any sports network is doing their job if they just cover the play on the field. We all want to know our athletes off the field so I think this is par for the course. And really they were just reporting on a statement that was released by Wilson.

100% correct. Some seem to forget that with the number of sports shows on, it is all a ratings game. A lot of these shows have turned into nothing but gossip venues but are watched never the less.

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We all want to know our athletes off the field so I think this is par for the course.

Speak for yourself.  I don't hold athletes or coaches on a pedestal, so I find coverage of their personal life to be boring and completley irrelevant.  It makes no difference to me if the players behave like Andrew Luck off the filed, or like pacman jones.  I watch sports for the play on the field, with most of the play being interesting because of the structure and the strategy involved, which then makes it difficult for players like pacman jones to be interesting at all. 

 

ESPN wants to cover the athletisicm (highlights) and the celebrities, which makes for really, really boring sports, IMO.

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Speak for yourself.  I don't hold athletes or coaches on a pedestal, so I find coverage of their personal life to be boring and completley irrelevant.  It makes no difference to me if the players behave like Andrew Luck off the filed, or like pacman jones.  I watch sports for the play on the field, with most of the play being interesting because of the structure and the strategy involved, which then makes it difficult for players like pacman jones to be interesting at all. 

 

ESPN wants to cover the athletisicm (highlights) and the celebrities, which makes for really, really boring sports, IMO.

I am with you for the most part. I care about the play on the field but I do like hearing about players work in the community, etc. I was more speaking for fans that want to know their athletes off the field. I think that is a natural part of being fan. That being said, I don't like the gossip and scuttle but that is pretty much the media at large these days. But the networks are also trying to get the fringe fans so when athletes like Tebow come along they exploit for all its worth to make money which really is the end game.

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File under "who cares?" and/or "how long 'til the season starts again?" 

 

Maybe we'll get some more hard-hitting journalism out of ESPN this offseason... I hear Tony Romo is thinking about changing his mobile phone carrier. Stay tuned.

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It's not always about Money....   who knows what the issues are here, but it's really no-one's business other than Russell and Ashton.

 

 

:edit:   I don't understand why some want to make her out to be a money hungry villain.   For all we know, they both may be very broken hearted over this split, yet realize it's for the best.

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if they don't have kids, she won't get nearly what she would have if they divorced in two years

 

Be willing to bet a substantial amount of money that she will make more money from doing nothing than most Americans make in 3 years paychecks. 

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Seahawks releasing a statement on this has to be one of the most oddest things ever...You never really see a team do that, but it's interesting that they would do it. This divorce is happening before he gets paid as well. When it's all said and done and he's single again Wilson might go out and have some of the most fun he's ever had. Might as well enjoy it as much as he can. 

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Be willing to bet a substantial amount of money that she will make more money from doing nothing than most Americans make in 3 years paychecks.

It's not like she was some NFL groupie looking to get knocked up

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Seahawks releasing a statement on this has to be one of the most oddest things ever...You never really see a team do that, but it's interesting that they would do it. This divorce is happening before he gets paid as well. When it's all said and done and he's single again Wilson might go out and have some of the most fun he's ever had. Might as well enjoy it as much as he can. 

I think it has to do with marketing the team.  The tactic is to become more celebrity focused, with the QBs filling the role as star and community leader/ role model.  Their lives are becoming more public.

 

Its the same concept has the Manning/Brady argument, where they are supposedly competing with each other for success.  The media tries to market the situation like a boxing match, which is simpler to understand than a team game that has 42 other moving parts to analyze.

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It's not always about Money....   who knows what the issues are here, but it's really no-one's business other than Russell and Ashton.

 

 

:edit:   I don't understand why some want to make her out to be a money hungry villain.   For all we know, they both may be very broken hearted over this split, yet realize it's for the best.

 

Quite frankly I hate divorce no matter what.  At best it's a necessary evil but quite frankly most times it's not.  Most times it's someone who has decided that "for better or worse" isn't worth it.

 

That having been said at the same time I also understand why people are being so negative to her despite not knowing anything.  It's a sad reality that divorces rarely turn out well for men.  No matter what the circumstances women usually walk away with the kids and the house.  For many men a divorce is essentially their wife deciding she's bored and kicking him out of the family only to have the TV and the media applaud her for her courage to become a single mother because her husband wasn't fun enough.  (Ever heard of "Eat Pray Love"?  The entire book, applauded by the media is about a woman who gets bored with her husband and takes a trip around the world after she divorces him.)  

 

And every man who's married knows that if she's unhappy for any reason legit or not, you're unhappy with half your stuff in a studio apartment and seeing your children 2 weekends a month (if you are lucky).  This is something every married man and especially every married father is extremely aware of.  It's also a reason why father's statistically almost never file for divorce, but mothers often do.

 

Anyways there is a lot of male resentment about family courts that gets played out when this comes up.  Even if you've never been divorced, if you are married with kids you know that she doesn't need a reason to kick you out of the family, she just can. 

 

As far as Wilson he likely made the right decision if he's just looking out for himself.  But looking out for himself isn't what he promised her in 2012.  

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Not sure any sports network is doing their job if they just cover the play on the field. We all want to know our athletes off the field so I think this is par for the course. And really they were just reporting on a statement that was released by Wilson.

We do?

Interest in celebrities' lives is exactly part of the reason why our society is on such a decline.

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