What Team will Tom Brady end his career with?

I was at work today and I thought of something as I was listening to the Rich Eisen podcast on the iPod.  There are a ton of great football players, nay, athletes that start their careers with one team and end with a team that seems like it should not have even been part of his career.  Let’s go down the list and see who makes the cut:

The recent obvious one: Brett Favre

Doesn’t exactly seem like he played over 200 games in a packers uniform.  It’s the team he won a Super Bowl in, it’s the team that he owned for all of the 90’s and most of the 2000’s.  When you said “Packers QB”, there was only Favre.  Everyone else was a “Who?”.

The “Oh Yeah, I forgot” guy: Joe Montana

If I remember correctly he made the passing portion of “The Catch” to Dwight Clark that is so famous in the NFL and he is most known for passing to the greatest wide receiver the game will ever see.  Which brings us to the next guy.

The "Al Davis Crush” Seattle Seahawks?  Really?: Jerry Rice

Didn’t even realize Jerry Rice was traded to Seattle until I looked it up.  I thought he ended it in San Francisco.  But apparently did one of those things where he signed a contract with the 49ers for a day and then retired so he could retire a 49er.  I mean, come on!  Can’t anyone stay with one team forever.

The guy who might go crazy without Football: Junior Seau

I’ll be honest.  When Junior Seau drove his car over a cliff on a beach, I thought of one thing: he needs to come back to football.  Seau must be on so many painkillers and probably hates his family that he just wants a ring and will do anything for it.  Most definitely the reason he came to New England.  I fear for the life of Junior Seau.

The “Just Retire and Don’t Ruin Your Legacy” guy: Michael Jordan

I know that the title in this could be something to relate to all of these guys, but Jordan is the only one on this list that is still considered to be the great of his time.  Kobe is slowly approaching Jordan like status and will most likely pass him if he keeps playing up to his game. 

The “You’ve Got to be Shitting Me” guy: Johnny Unitas

Yeah, Johnny Unitas, the guy who is considered the king of the gridiron played for the San Deigo Chargers.  He looks like he should be selling hair cream in this picture, but he is also on this list. 

Now, I could go on for a long time.  I could mention Nomar, but he was traded.  I should mention Gary Payton, Shawn Kemp, Karl Malone, Patrick Ewing, Hakeem Olajuwon, and maybe a couple of more players from the NBA who left small markets/traded to win big while getting paid.  Baseball players hardly ever stay in the same city.  The first big free agent from the 1974 era was Catfish Hunter who left the Oakland A’s to play for the Yankees for a little over $2M.  Baseball never looked back after 1974.  Most players are considered legendary if they stay with the team they grew with and never considered.  Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera are going to end in pinstripes.  I never really considered this such a task, but maybe the days of the athlete that plays on one team and stays on one team are long gone.

The reason I ask this question because there are a couple of athletes that are always going to be on a plaque or behind a frame in a Boston sports bar.  The best players; that influenced those teams and left their mark without looking for more from another team, one more year to try and win a championship or whatever they thought would be out there.  Of course I’m talking about:

The Great White Hope:

Teddy Ballgame:

So if Tom Brady is as good a QB as anyone that ever walked onto the field?  Where does he end his career?   Most signs point to someplace not in New England.  Let’s hope Al Davis doesn’t stay alive for Brady’s contract to end.

*I researched Bobby Orr and didn’t realize he ended his career with the Blackhawks.  Still the best hockey player, if not, certainly the best defenseman, by a long shot.

This whole Wikileaks thing…

So, I haven’t blogged in a while and one of the stories that keeps coming up other than movies I want to see and Christmas ideas has been WikiLeaks.  It seems that a lot of governments around the world have become scared or aggressive toward WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange.  So far most of the things he has posted haven’t been that Earth-shattering to me, but they have been pretty intense as far as foreign relations go.  I’m pretty sure that President Obama has had Hil-dawg on a non-stop tour to try and curb this whole thing by talking with diplomats and making them calm even though the world is finding out most of poorer countries dirty little secrets.

I don’t know what Julian Assange could be accomplishing with this other than revealing the truth.  I mean let’s think for a minute.  We didn’t need to know about every lost secret from World War II or Vietnam.  Nor do I think we still need to learn those things.  I’m sure that the people involved are long gone and there is nothing really to do about those things.  If Hitler had a secret pack of wolves that he was training to become super soldiers, that could be left out of the history books.

When I first heard of this Wikileaks story, I only saw that they were releasing stories about soldiers and mistreating of officers in the armed forces, which sounds boring (sorry Troops).  But now it’s involving governments and finding out there is nothing that can’t be uncovered. 

What does interest me is how most of the banks and businesses that run this world are going all against Assange and his crew of hackers and such.  I didn’t think that there would be this kind of debacle in the modern world.  Like it’s out of a Crichton/Brown/Grisham/Stephenson book and the plot is unknown.  No doubt that Assange is going to be on a bunch of countries hit-list.  I think he would be a sure thing for a death-pool, but that makes me think that it’s almost too good of a bet.  Like countries don’t want to make a martyr out of him. 

On Twitter, the Wikileaks site, which I do follow just to stay interested in this thing, says that people shouldn’t have their money in Bank of America.  I don’t know whether that is a threat or just because hardly any bank is going to let funds transfer to Wikileaks.  I feel like this is something that should’ve been covered in an episode of West Wing and there is some sort of diplomatic thing to do.  But to be honest, I think this Wikileaks thing is one of the more compelling stories just because it involves government’s hiding information from its citizens.  I mean, if Wikileaks uncovers a story like How Kennedy was Killed, or What We Didn’t know about 9/11 or something like that.  If Assange is smart, which seems to be the case, he won’t be stupid in his travels, and he’ll find out whatever he wants to find out.

First December Post: A-Gon and Movies to See

Okay, so when I first heard the Gonzalez deal was going to happen I was ecstatic.  I was so happy that Theo was going to make the Sox season so much better now than what it was going to look like with the re-signings of Varitek and Ortiz.  Then when I heard the deal was not going to happen, I went in the other direction and thought of the worst possible scenarios for the Red Sox.  Missing the playoffs, being the laughingstock of the AL East, STILL having Big Papi even though he’s well past his prime, and of course having to deal with not re-signing V-Mart after the Tigers did. 

I would have liked to have V-Mart over Ortiz, just because there is something that V-Mart can do: switch hit and hit lefties.  I know that’s two things but either way, I’m glad we have another power bat in the lineup.  Not sure of what to make of Salty until he starts and stays healthy.  I feel like he’s one of the those Rich Harden types that will be nasty if they played a whole season and never got hurt, but that’s for another day and those kinds of players are a lot to handle.  Welcome to the team Adrian!

Alright, now that it’s Decemeber let’s talk about some movies I want/need to go see.  I still need to see a bunch of movies from the summer that I missed out on because they were interrupting my schedule of drinking and hanging out with friends.  So here are some movies I would love to see this coming holiday season:

The Fighter – Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Directed by David O’Russell.

I know the trailer runs off the damn screen but what else can I do.  Not my fault the trailer is huge.  Either way this movie looks like Oscar dynamite and I hope that Bale finally earns his due for being in some of the best movies of the last 10 years.  Adams will win too, Oscars love her. 

Black Swan – Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassell, Directed by Darren Aronofsky

This movie is going to be great because Portman and Kunis have a sex scene, with each other, and that is going to be great.  Also Aronofsky makes great films in case you haven’t seen the Wrestler or Pi or Requiem for a Dream.

Tron Legacy – Jeff Bridges, Olivia Wilde, some other white guy who is nameless right now.

I haven’t seen the first one but I plan on that as well.  But Disney is hitting this right on the money by bringing back the original Flynn.  Really want to see this and cannot wait for it to happen.  Soundtrack was done by Daft Punk and I have been listening to that for a little over a week and I love it. 

True Grit – Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Hailee Steinfeld directed by the Coen Brothers.

This movie is a remake of a Clint Eastwood movie, but the Coen’s make the best movies as far as being brothers goes.  Everything they make is a classic and they are instantly in the run for Oscars with this one.  Bridges in two awesome movie this winter is too much to ask.  Absolutely great.

The Green Hornet – Seth Rogen, Cameron Diaz, Jay Chou, and Christoph Waltz

This movie was supposed to be done by Kevin Smith, but Rogen took over the writing after they met on the set of Zach and Miri Make a Porno.  Looks like a good action flick and Rogen’s humor is always good for something.  I just checked who else is on the bill and the fact that Christoph Waltz is in this movie just made this movie jump two or three spots.  Love that guy and he is going to be amazing in whatever roles he plays.