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Handsome Tom was courtside at the Celtics Game Seven triumph over the Cleveland LeBrons yesterday, and on his head rested a San Francisco Giants hat. It's not nearly as scandalous as the time he donned a Yankees cap, but this time of year, there's no bit of news too small to examine.

Possible explanations:

• The Giants, of course, were the long-time employers of Barry Bonds, who was just hit with 15 charges of perjury. And with Spygate dominating the sports headlines recently, Tom wanted to show solidarity among dirty, dirty cheaters in sports.

• Tom is enthralled at the height of basketball players, and roots especially for the really tall ones. Go giants.

• Tom will do anything to get young white children to gaze at him in amazement, and if that means a gaudy bracelet and the hat of a terrible west coast baseball team while attending an east coast basketball game, then so be it.

• Tom is from the Bay Area in California, has probably been a lifelong Giants fan, and being Tom Brady, can wear whatever he damn well pleases. It's still less embarrassing than the people who wear Red Sox jerseys to the most important game the Celtics have played in five years.

I like that last option the best.

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  1. Lenny D
    1. Posted by Lenny D Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:58 pm EDT

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    Say what you want about this guy, he is a winner and NO I am not a Patriots fan!
  2. sam spade
    2. Posted by sam spade Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:12 pm EDT

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    Tom is a big Barry bonds fan. I hope you know that. He was in Gregg Anderson's fave five at one point. But he denied working out wih him or using steroids.
  3. Tynerbeast
    3. Posted by Tynerbeast Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:40 pm EDT

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    Who cares what he wears. Any player should be able to support any team they want. If it was a Jets or Colts hat that would be another story.
  4. Alex C
    4. Posted by Alex C Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:50 pm EDT

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    18-1
  5. hsarc
    5. Posted by hsarc Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:16 pm EDT

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    18-1.
  6. DustinB
    6. Posted by DustinB Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:28 pm EDT

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    16-0... anyone else do that?
  7. Lenny D
    7. Posted by Lenny D Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:58 pm EDT

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    Do a Super Bowl Ring count..........................
  8. Colleen
    8. Posted by Colleen Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:02 pm EDT

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    Why do we care what hat he weras? maybe he's a true Giants fan having grown up in the area...as a lifelong Sox fan I can appriciate that. He is , after all, the greatest QB ever.
  9. kyle P
    9. Posted by kyle P Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:53 pm EDT

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    I love Tom!
  10. Carman
    10. Posted by Carman Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:12 pm EDT

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    Tom Brady went to the same high school as Barry Bonds.
  11. oldblue
    11. Posted by oldblue Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:44 pm EDT

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    sorry but otto graham remains the greatest quarterback ever. in the champioinship game every year he played and also won an nba championship as a player. talk about winners.
  12. oldblue
    12. Posted by oldblue Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:44 pm EDT

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    p.s. and graham did it without cheating.
    and speaking of the browns, belicheat was no genius when he coached them but he hadn't yet discovered the secret to sucesss, i guess.
  13. e r
    13. Posted by e r Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:41 pm EDT

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    um i think he is from the bay so he is a giants fan................
  14. RFFL....
    14. Posted by RFFL.... Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:55 pm EDT

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    Tom Brady is the next "Flat Stanley".......lol
  15. beisbool
    15. Posted by beisbool Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:49 pm EDT

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    #5 & #6
    "18-1". ..... you sound like one-timers.
    If Eli and the Giants accomplish anything more than 1 & done (on a miracle play no less), let alone go undefeated in the regular season, little men like you might be taken serious when you brag about being better than the big boys. Until then Brady and the Pats are the unmatched best. Period.
  16. jskcknit
    16. Posted by jskcknit Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:43 pm EDT

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    Yeah there's nothing more annoying to me than seeing people at the Celtics games wearing Red Sox or patriots jerseys. Wait yeah there is....people who show up still wearing Antoine Walker jerseys!!!
  17. Joe
    17. Posted by Joe Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:40 pm EDT

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    I dig the hat, but brady is no Joe Montana and that's the best Quaterback ever and this is coming from a cowboys fan. If you get to superbowl with all that swager and power and lose; you lose a little bit of your greatness. Joe never lost a super bowl. I really don' t care about spygate, but goes to show you what a little inside information can do or don't do for you. As for my boy's, Romo still has to win a playoff game, before we can forget about Aikman and the rest of the boy's who partied at the "White House". How Bout them Cowboys!!!!
  18. T M
    18. Posted by T M Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:07 pm EDT

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    Tom Brady grew up in San Mateo, thats in the bay area. So of course he is wearing a SF hat.
  19. Lumpy
    19. Posted by Lumpy Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:13 pm EDT

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    eighteen and ONE
  20. MikeB
    20. Posted by MikeB Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:19 pm EDT

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    I'm just glad that the sports fans in New England will finally have something the cheer about.
  21. MikeB
    21. Posted by MikeB Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:19 pm EDT

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    I'm just glad that the sports fans in New England will finally have something the cheer about.
  22. MikeB
    22. Posted by MikeB Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:19 pm EDT

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    I'm just glad that the sports fans in New England will finally have something the cheer about.
  23. MikeB
    23. Posted by MikeB Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:19 pm EDT

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    I'm just glad that the sports fans in New England will finally have something the cheer about.
  24. Brad B
    24. Posted by Brad B Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:12 pm EDT

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    Who is Otto Graham and who cares anyway,Tom Brady is the second best QB to ever play. Everyone knows that Joe Montana was the best. Tom Brady could wear a Dr. Seuss hat and it shouldn't matter, it's not really newsworthy.
  25. A Yahoo! User
    25. Posted by A Yahoo! User Mon May 19, 2008 3:32 pm EDT

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    greatest QB ever?!? He's good, but Joe Montana has 4 rings (which is one more than Tom) so definitely not the best QB ever.. And who the hell cares what kind of hat he wears. There could of been some other Joe Schmo at the same game with a giants hat and we wouldn't write an article about him. People need to stop caring about famous people's lives and start living their own.

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