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October 12, 2015
Tom Brady Calls Coca Cola 'Poison for Kids': New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady called Coke "poison for kids" during a radio interview Monday. While defending his personal exercise and diet guru Alex Guerrero, who has been called a "glorified snake-oil salesman" in the media, Brady said, "You'll probably go out and drink Coca-Cola and think,'Oh yeah, that's no problem.' Why? Because they pay lots of money for advertisements to think that you should drink Coca-Cola for a living? No, I totally disagree with that. And when people do that, I think that's quackery. And the fact that they can sell that to kids? I mean, that's poison for kids. But they keep doing it." (Pepsi is the official soft drink of the NFL.)
Russell Wilson has also aligned himself with some sort of snake oil salesman as well. Some sort of super water. I'm not going to link to anything that has to do with it, but it did cause a bit of a stir here in the Triangle area earlier this year.
posted by NoMich at 09:33 PM on October 12, 2015
It'll be game over for the mojo juice when Gisele wakes up one day and decides that there's a limit to how much a man's sweat should smell like kale.
Then it will be up to Trump to get his friend Tom refocused on a proper midtown sirloin strip and martini regimen.
posted by beaverboard at 10:15 PM on October 12, 2015
Yeah, the Trump thing made a lot more sense once I saw this column. I look forward to Brady's future governorship of Mass when he starts looking into all the vaccines we're pumping into kids.
posted by yerfatma at 11:16 AM on October 13, 2015
First, put me at the fringe of the Tom Brady "hater" camp. I respect the hell out of him as a quarterback, but his success has bred resentment. I personally would love for the NFL to produce a deflategate smoking gun that would tarnish his legacy forever. So, that said...
You just keep eating those things, and you keep wondering why we have just incredible rates of disease in our country. No one thinks it has anything to do with what we put in our body.
Is he wrong? I mean, he might be aligned with a questionable snake oil salesman (no, I don't mean his politics), and might even have a financial stake in the success of said snake oil salesman's products and regimen. But again, I agree completely with what he said about garbage processed food and soda. So I think I will wait for the inevitable next scandal to get back to bashing Brady.
posted by tahoemoj at 11:47 AM on October 13, 2015
Well done, Texas governor Greg Abbott!
That's the biggest mental blunder by a Texas governor since, well, the last guy.
posted by grum@work at 01:04 PM on October 13, 2015
I agree completely with what he said about garbage processed food and soda
Certainly.
Brady says nothing at all if not for defending his own relationship with, and financial gain from, TB12 and not a genuine nutritional concern.
Governor? I would hope the people of Mass appreciate him for what he is and leave it at that for their own good.
posted by cixelsyd at 01:30 PM on October 13, 2015
Brady will never be governor. For one thing he's politically clueless. When asked about Trump, he said, "I have to find out what the issues are". That's what blissfully unaware college students of voting age say when they are interviewed on camera during the primaries.
Secondly, no one wants to live in a commonwealth that ends up being beset by inflationary pressures on monetary policy.
posted by beaverboard at 04:47 PM on October 13, 2015
This article from Boston Magazine details Guerrero's bullshit and actions that the FTC has taken against him for false claims. Sickeningly, Wes Welker has (knowingly or not) been used as an endorser of his anti-concussion miracle drink (trademarked TB12 - guess what Tom Brady's jersey number is?).
This is a some serious whackadoo. I've never been a huge fan of Brady's, but this could lump him in with some pretty gross other celebrity woo-woo nastiness like the Scientologists or Anti-Vaxxers.