Sports Illustrated’s latest cover story, understandably, is on Tom Brady and the freak hand injury he suffered in practice, as well as the way the New England Patriots are able to sustain their success and their play in the AFC title game last Sunday.
But buried at the bottom of the piece, written by Greg Bishop, is an interesting nugget:
Last spring Brady and his family vacationed with retired kicker Jay Feely, a close friend from their college days at Michigan. This being Brady, Feely prefers not to disclose the locale, but he does share that Brady’s wife, the supermodel Gisele Bündchen, spent time on that trip “trying to get me to convince [Tom] to stop playing.