Supermodels Question Brady's Toughness After QB Leaves Game With Injury

FOXBORO, Mass.  New England Patriots fans were in shock today after quarterback Tom Brady suffered a knee injury in yesterday's game against the Kansas City Chiefs, but another group showed the 2007 MVP no sympathy.  "If I slip at the end of the catwalk," said supermodel Elle Macpherson, "there is no injury cart to bring me back."

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Indeed, the reaction among the world's supermodels to what is believed to be a torn anterior cruciate ligament was dismissive, if not downright hostile.  "A lot of your top models see Brady as a threat ever since he turned into a coverboy," says Pro Football Today's Mark Samari.  "They watch his stat line to see how many column inches he gets in the gossip columns."

Macpherson:  "I would have put on fresh makeup and gone back into the game."

Brady has played in four Super Bowls, leading the Patriots to victory in three of them.  Speaking in the broken English that is their official language, German supermodel Claudia Schiffer said that in order to join the supermodels' union "one must be on all the covers all over the world at the same time so that people can recognise the girls so Brady does not qualify, yes?"

"Do you have Matt Cassel's cell phone number?"

There was speculation that Giselle Bundchen, Brady's supermodel girlfriend, would dump him after she was heard muttering "Another Wally Pipp" as she left a luxury box at Gillette Stadium.  Wally Pipp was a member of the New York Yankees who sat out a game due to a headache and was replaced by Lou Gehrig, the "Iron Horse" who went on to play in 2,130 consecutive games.  Brady was replaced by Matt Cassel, a backup whose preseason reps had inspired little confidence.

Wally Pipp:  "Not today, Giselle--I've got a headache."

"When I am not feeling well I still must oil up my body for exhausting photo shoots wearing nothing but a bikini in the hot sun," Bundchen snapped at a reporter.  "Does anybody have Matt Cassel's cell phone number?"