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Tom Brady on Wes Welker’s infamous ‘feet’ presser: ‘Who cares if it got him in trouble?’

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A fair share of harmless pranks take place behind the closed doors of the Patriots locker room, but in 2011, Wes Welker took his antics public.

During a pregame press conference for New England’s divisional playoff contest against the New York Jets, Welker made a pointed effort to tie his answers back to a specific body part: feet. Why feet? Well, less than a month prior, videos had emerged of then-head coach of the Jets, Rex Ryan, exhibiting an apparent foot fetish.

“Wes had called dad and told him he was going to do it,” Welker’s brother Lee told NFL Network.