Gag me. From an e-mail I received from SI today:
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MORNING CALL .
INSIDE SI Tom Brady is named Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year.
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In this week's SI: Tom Brady is SI's Sportsman of the Year. Click here for more.
It may be the country's most dominant sport, but only four NFL players have been awarded SI's Sportsman of the Year, including Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, who appears on the cover this week as the 2005 winner. Brady is the first NFL player to earn Sportsman honors since Joe Montana in 1990. The others? Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw shared the award with fellow Pittsburgh icon Willie Stargell in 1979 and Bengals linebacker Reggie Williams was one of six men and two women SI honored for their humanitarian efforts in 1987. The NFL has been represented in other areas: Pete Rozelle won the award in 1963 and Dolphins coach Don Shula earned SI's highest honor in 1993 after he became the winningest coach in NFL history. As part of a monthlong SI.com project featuring writers offering their Sportsman selections, SI's Peter King nominated the Pats' QB. "Brady is supposed to have enough by now," King wrote. "He's supposed to be satisfied with having won three Super Bowls by age 27 and having proved that everyone was wrong for drafting him all the way back in the sixth round of 2000, behind even Spergon Wynn. But he's far from satisfied. Don't be surprised if he wins more Sportsman awards and more Super Bowls in the years to come."
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</TD><TD style="FONT: bold 11px Arial; COLOR: #000000">In this edition...</TD><TD style="FONT: bold 11px Arial; COLOR: #000000" align=right colSpan=2>by Richard Deitsch and David Sabino</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=3>
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It may be the country's most dominant sport, but only four NFL players have been awarded SI's Sportsman of the Year, including Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, who appears on the cover this week as the 2005 winner. Brady is the first NFL player to earn Sportsman honors since Joe Montana in 1990. The others? Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw shared the award with fellow Pittsburgh icon Willie Stargell in 1979 and Bengals linebacker Reggie Williams was one of six men and two women SI honored for their humanitarian efforts in 1987. The NFL has been represented in other areas: Pete Rozelle won the award in 1963 and Dolphins coach Don Shula earned SI's highest honor in 1993 after he became the winningest coach in NFL history. As part of a monthlong SI.com project featuring writers offering their Sportsman selections, SI's Peter King nominated the Pats' QB. "Brady is supposed to have enough by now," King wrote. "He's supposed to be satisfied with having won three Super Bowls by age 27 and having proved that everyone was wrong for drafting him all the way back in the sixth round of 2000, behind even Spergon Wynn. But he's far from satisfied. Don't be surprised if he wins more Sportsman awards and more Super Bowls in the years to come."
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