Tom Brady is a likeable public figure, but he is polarizing as a professional football player. The New England quarterback is poised to win his fourth Super Bowl Ring this year on the heels of a crushing defeat at the hands of Denver in last year's AFC Championship game. Patriots fans are all the way behind him, while some critics are calling him overrated. He was ranked number 3 in the recently announced player's poll, behind Denver's Peyton Manning and Calvin "Megatron" Johnson from Detroit, which drew question marks from some writers who say that his stats don't warrant such status. Gisele's husband must hate being in other peoples' shadows.
For stats-obsessed sports analysts, it's impossible to consider using unquantifiable factors to quantify something like a ranked list. But Rolling Stone magazine does it all the time. These things are obviously subjective, and when you get your team to the AFC Championship you've obviously done something right (via Give Me Sport):
"Perhaps i'm being too harsh on the two-time Super Bowl MVP but I think the Patriots made the Quarterback a bit less influential last year and that given Brady's lesser statistics over some of the other players in the league, he is unworthy of the third best player award."
Stats be damned; Bostonians have a different appraisal of their favorite field general (via Boston.com):
"The Patriots should wrap Brady in bubble-wrap and foam peanuts, place him in a giant inflatable raft and slowly lower him down to the situation room below the White House that we saw in "Olympus Has Fallen." Then, take him to the super-secret room one level below where they keep the aliens and the National Treasure. Keep him safe and comfortable in a room at 68 degrees until the start of camp. During camp and the exhibition season, any player who touches him shall be fined $100,000."
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