some yoir areas worst hit by nicole. dozens of beachfront homes and buildings have been declared unsafe in the wake of the storm. and thousands of homes and businesses still without power. well, it turns out tom brady isn t just a star here in the u.s. he s also a celebrity in germany. for the first time the nfl playing a regular season game in germany. sunday s match will be between brady s tampa bay buccaneers and the seattle seahawks. your whole life is made of memories and experiences, and to do it with the teammates and do it with the game i love, and football has brought me a lot of places in life. and it s brought me to germany now because i ve never been here before but i m definitely coming back. brady was even presented with a pair of laderhosen at his news conference.
around brady still do expect him to retire. i just think brady didn t like losing control of his own message. this was not how he planned it. when he left the patriots two years ago, it was all part of a slick, well-coordinated social media campaign, which is right up tom brady s alley. someone as kind of big and culturally as important as tom brady isn t going to let the news kind of leak out on a saturday afternoon where it wasn t him being the one to control the message. so i think what we saw this afternoon he showed the agents response. the bucs, the gm told multiple media outlets tom brady actually called him to today to say he hadn t made up his mind because the bucs were in the dark about this as well but ultimately i think it was a case of brady maybe trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube, not being thrilled someone in his inner circle maybe leaked it out sooner than brady wanted to. i think a decision is coming soon. there is a big deadline
means, do you wash it? part of the idea is that it smells like tom brady? tom: i think you re supposed to keep it for the smell. i m not kidding, you re supposed to keep smelling nothing every couple of weeks. i ve got a pair of andy levy s socks are you going to sell them? tom: what should be the punishment for this guy? this guy, probably having season tickets to the jets. [laughter] although there are laws against cruel and unusual punishment. wire they pick slitting his face? none of the media at this point are showing his image, he s accused of stealing something twice now. tom: i think andy will be able to tell us. i think that video is from earlier when they were 100% sur sure. tom: tom brady isn t the only quarterback caught up in
four games reduced. we ll see if that happens. up until this point, tom has not been very forthright in the investigation and in interviews he has not outwardly said i had nothing to do with this. he has kind of skirted the issue and chosen his words wisely. do you think his stardom is going to help him? you know i think it s going to. but i also know that roger goodell does not look at these superstar athletes and hold them in any different light than anybody else. with all the stuff that has happened with adrian peterson ray rice and greg hardy, i think he has to look at himself and say i have to play this fairly or else i m going get called out. i think in this situation, tom brady gets no extra deals just because he is an elite athlete. bill when you look at this does the league have to back down on this? well i don t think they have to. two things. we have to look at this two things. they have to look at the letter of the law. if he screwed around with the balls or whateve
following the nfl owners meetings and all it was about was deflategate. i look forward to hearing directly from tom. if there is new information or information that can be helpful to us in getting this right. i want to hear directly from tom on that. how do you address the question of how can you be fair hearing the appeal after you have already meted out judgment? well, two things. first off, it was an independent investigation. it was done by ted wells. he drew a conclusion about whether there is a violation or not. he drew the facts andrew the investigation. i get a chance to read the report just shortly before you did. and so we ve been very transparent on that side of it. for more let s bring in a sports columnist for the new york times. and bill lever and kfan radio host in minneapolis. bill, you first. as the league handles this can they live without brady for four games? yeah but they re not. they re not. what they re trying to do now,