Tom Brady flips cointoss for SB XL???
 

I just heard this on Around the Horn. Why would we have a current player who got his ass kicked in the playoffs flip the cointoss? How bad do people really want the Patriots to be a part of this game? I could care less if they ever make the SB again. This is insane.

even as a fan of what they've done in ne the past 5 years, this is a horible idea.

This is so stupid.

I have no idea why the NFL gave him this opportunity, or why he accepted.

This is the first time a current NFL player who is not playing in the SB has been involved in the SB coin toss, and I cannot see the logic for it.

The only reason any of us can think of is that it's because he went to the University of Michigan and the game is in Detroit. To me, that makes no sense and is basically completely reeruned.

I don't know why he's involved, but I wish he wasn't. I can't even begin to figure out why he would have said "yes" to this dumb idea.

What, they couldn't get Peyton Manning?

Shouldn't Mr. Ford or Eminem or somebody do it? This is dumb.

Or Kidrock.

Manning should do it on the theory that that's the only way he'll ever get to a Super Bowl....?


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Why not Elvis Grbac?

I was just thinking that he's the only guy who gets more hand-jobs from the media than Brady does.

Here's more on the Brady tossing of the coin, which sort of explains it, kinda sorta... Still can't say I care for it.

http://www.boston.com/sports/footbal.../reiss_pieces/

More on Brady's toss

More details have become available regarding Patriots quarterback Tom Brady's involvement with the opening coin toss in Super Bowl XL.

According to NFL Director of Corporate Communications Brian McCarthy, Brady will toss the coin before the game.

The NFL is assembling more than 30 Super Bowl MVPs on the field before the game as part of its season-long campaign to celebrate 40 years of Super Bowls. The league will begin the game by saluting the current players, and has chosen Brady -- the two-time Super Bowl MVP and three-time Super Bowl champion -- to represent all current players.

Brady becomes the first active, non-participating player to flip the coin for a Super Bowl game.

After the game, two-time Super Bowl MVP Bart Starr will be part of a ceremony that recognizes all past players.

I guess I just assumed that Jerome Bettis's mom would do the coin toss.

Interesting. Same link as my prior post:


A complete list of who has tossed the Super Bowl coin, supplied by the NFL:

I-XI -- Game Official

XII -- Red Grange

XIII -- George Halas

XIV -- Art Rooney

XV -- Marie Lombardi

XVI -- Bobby Layne

XVII -- Elroy Hirsch

XVIII -- Bronko Nagurski

XIX -- Hugh McElhenny (with President Ronald Reagan on video)

XX -- Bart Starr (representing 17 MVPs who were present)

XXI -- Willie Davis

XXII -- Don Hutson

XXIII -- Nick Buoniconti, Bob Griese and Larry Little

XXIV -- Mel Blount, Terry Bradshaw, Art Shell and Willie Wood*

XXV -- Pete Rozelle

XXVI -- Chuck Noll

XXVII -- O.J. Simpson

XXVIII -- Joe Namath

XXIX -- Otto Graham, Joe Greene, Ray Nitschke and Gale Sayers

XXX -- Joe Montana, representing 25 MVPs present

XXXI -- Mike Ditka, Tom Flores, Tom Landry, Chuck Noll, George Seifert and Hank Stram

XXXII -- Joe Gibbs, Eddie Robinson and Doug Williams

XXXIII -- Raymond Berry, Sam Huff, Roosevelt Brown, Art Donovan, Frank Gifford, Tom Landry, Gino Marchetti, Don Maynard, Lenny Moore, Jim Parker and Andy Robustelli

XXXIV -- Bud Grant, Lamar Hunt, Bobby Bell, Paul Krause, Willie Lanier, Alan Page and Jan Stenerud

XXXV -- Marcus Allen, Otis Anderson, Tom Flores and Bill Parcells

XXXVI -- Former President George H.W. Bush and Roger Staubach

XXXVII -- Miami Dophins Hall of Famers from undefeated '72 Team: Don Shula, Bob Griese, Larry Csonka, Larry Little, Jim Langer, Nick Buoniconti and Paul Warfield

XXXVIII -- Hall of Famers from Texas: Earl Campbell, Ollie Matson, Don Maynard, Y.A. Tittle, Mike Singletary and Gene Upshaw

XXXIX -- Four young players, ages 7-10, from Jacksonville's Pop Warner and Police Athletic League teams and two coaches from New Orleans and Hyattsville, Maryland (2004 NFL HS COY)

After the game? The guys who built the f**king league are going to be "honored" when everyone is leaving the stadium and has thier backs to the field? Very classy.

Too bad it isn't Jake. Then we'd have Taco and Garcia to explain it to us.