The Sports Truth

Riding high after a 9-0 start, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady took advantage of time off over the weekend to catch up in L.A. with John Edward Thomas Moynahan, his three-month-old son with his ex-girlfriend, Bridget Moynahan.

After spending time in Los Angeles, Brady has been in New York during the team’s week off, too. He was spotted at the Gramercy Park Hotel last Wednesday night and elsewhere in New York City with supermodel girlfriend Gisele Bundchen on Saturday.

Despite rare downtime with baby son John Moynahan (pictured with his mom, Bridget Moynahan), Tom Brady said he spent most of Sunday watching football.

With the holidays upcoming, Brady has more than little John Moynahan to think about - he has another (large) family when it comes to doling out presents: his offensive linemen.

“I know they look forward to the gift,” a smiling Tom Brady told a Boston radio station. “I give the best gifts they probably get all Christmas season. I’m like Santa Claus now.”

At least Brady appreciates the importance of protection nowadays. Hopefully Dallas’ Tony Romo will learn from this as he sleeps with every celebrity in Hollywood.

The NFL Draft is coming up in April. And while few experts expect the Patriots to select an offensive lineman, it’s obvious Tom Brady needs more protection at this point.

After all, the hunk of a quarterback has already knocked up ex-girlfriend Bridget Moynhan - and rumors are swiring that he’s actually done it again with new gal pal, Gisele Bundchen. Bill Belichick may wanna send in Vinny Testaverde for a few snaps.

He’s so old, there’s probably no fear that his sexual passes can be completed anymore … if you know what we mean!

Still, there are worse things in the world than fathering a pair of babies with beautiful women. Like just being Kobe Bryant.

Anyway, if Brady is looking to impregnate more women than he as Super Bowl trophies, we wonder who’s next. Maria Sharapova is over 18 now, Tom. We’re just sayin.

It’s gotta be a drag when your NFL quarterback boyfriend dumps you after three years and takes up with a Victoria’s Secret supermodel … and then you find you’re three months pregnant!

That’s the situation faced by actress Bridget Moynahan of Six Degrees fame, and her former beau, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, says his knocked-up ex is trying to make him “look like a jerk.”

That shouldn’t be too challenging!

Since announcing his split with Bridget, Tom has taken up with a Brazilian bombshell, supermodel Gisele Bundchen (who used to date Leonardo DiCaprio).

While the two were vacationing in Paris, Bridget dropped the baby bomb to the New York Post’s Liz Smith - catching Brady off guard with a revelation that surely didn’t please his staunchly Catholic family.

Sources close to TMZ.com say that Moynahan was trying to embarass Gisele and make her look bad.

Which would be very challenging.

Reports say that Gisele has never been hotter happier, despite Tom’s lil’ bun in Bridget’s oven. Sorry. We can’t believe we used that analogy.

A friend of Gisele’s says Bundchen is smitten with her man and that the two will probably marry. For the moment, GB and her QB are headed to Milan so G can appear in the D&G show there.

The three-time Super Bowl champ may have let Peyton Manning get the best of him this year, but at least he can take solace in a nice offseason prize. Oh, and the birth of his first child by someone else.

It seems like the only people who still maintain that the Patriots did the right thing by not signing Super-Bowl MVP wideout, Deion Branch, are the same folks who run up to owner Bob Kraft (left) every chance they get to kiss his ring and thank him for “saving the Patriots.”

Objectivity must supplant fanaticism when considering the plight of the ’06 New England Patriots. It is true that in years past, the Pats had the oft-mentioned formula for success - and proved as much with three Super Bowl wins in four years.

But if you were paying attention to the contract machinations of the off-season, you know the salary cap increased significantly.

Bob Kraft objected to the increase, one of only a handful of owners to do so.

His solution was to simply not spend the money. While other teams have caught up to New England in talent and methodology, the Patriots have failed to recognize the changing landscape of the NFL.

The Patriots are still a good team. The defensive front is menacing and quarterback Tom Brady is as heady as they come. Those facts alone keep the Pats in contention.

But what the Patriots players continue to do on the field, the ownership has failed to do in the front office - be a team player. The 2006 Patriots just do not have the firepower to win it all this season. If they do win the Super Bowl, get the construction equipment ready so that the Tom Brady Wing can be built in Canton, because it will take that type of effort.

Let’s face it. Although we may not want to admit it, Brady is no deity. For that matter, neither is Deion Branch. But at a certain point you must take one on the chin. The Patriots gambled with Branch and lost. They figured he would back down and come to camp. Then they determined he would not get what he was asking for. Most critically, they did not have a backup plan.

You’re not always going to get a bargain. Sometime you must pay premium pricing. The only time you get burned is when a player turns out to be a bum. Branch (pictured below) is no bum. His market value is not worth the money he got from the Seahawks, but to the 2006 Patriots, he would have been worth every dime.