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Kristin Cavallari is engaged to Bears quarterback Jay Cutler, so she knows what it’s like to be the girlfriend of a highly-scrutinized player. She saw what Gisele said after the Patriots’ Super Bowl loss Sunday and said she liked the way the supermodel stood by her husband.

This isn’t the first time she’s used Twitter to express a similar position. When the Bears used their first-round draft pick on an offensive lineman last year, Cavallari was ecstatic that the team was trying to protect her boyfriend.

The reaction to Gisele’s comments has differed. Some Patriots reportedly feel like Gisele broke the code of brotherhood. Other people like the way she defended her husband.

I like Gisele’s loyalty too, but like Kristin said, not when it comes at the expense of the team. She can leave it to the media and fans to point out that the loss wasn’t all on Tom.

The phrase “world peace” ended the halftime show of the Super Bowl and it didn’t take long for the Ron Artest jokes to come flying in. Even the man himself, Metta World Peace, joked about it being a shoutout to him.

Yeah, sorry to disappoint, but I’m pretty sure people were hoping for world peace long before Ron Ron changed his name. Still, Baron Davis had an outstanding tweet, saying “Sick shout out to Ron Artest at the end. Who does his marketing #genius”

I guess the name change was worth it just for that.

While most of America was probably focusing on Steven Tyler, some observant folks noticed that there was a man picking his nose in the background of the shot. The geniuses at Deadspin say it’s conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh who was caught picking his nose in Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s luxury box.

In case you’re wondering what Limbaugh would be doing in Kraft’s box, it looks like the two are fairly close — Kraft attended Limbaugh’s wedding in 2010.

Is this real? It looks pretty real to me. People are inevitably going to look at this video and say, “Big deal — he’s just swinging a paddle,” but we’re talking about a baby here. This kid can’t even walk yet and he’s just hammering ping pong across a table like a boss. You can laugh all you want, but I bet most of you would be winded after sitting there and taking about 25 swings. This baby’s stamina and hand-eye coordination are through the roof.

If you’re this kid’s parents what do you do? Home school? Clearly we know what he’s going to do with the rest of his life, so learning is is now more of a technicality, right? You want your son to learn so that he doesn’t come across like a dunce in social situations, but it’s not like he needs good grades to get into college or anything. Scholarship offers have probably already been coming in the mail.

H/T to The Big Lead for sharing the video with us

If anyone can afford to have a toilet that is more than just a toilet in their house, it’s Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen.  According to Wes Welker, they have exactly that in their new home in California.  One of the fully-expected but completely off-topic questions that was presented to Welker on Thursday morning had to do with Brady’s new digs.  Tom’s favorite receiver took that opportunity to talk about the two-time Super Bowl MVP’s new throne.

“You go over and use his toilet, and you press this button, and it sprays water on you and all this stuff, and I’m like, ‘You gotta be kidding me.’” Welker said according to the Boston Herald. “It’s heated, it’s all this stuff, and I’m like, ‘This is crazy.’”

Of course Tom Brady has a bidet — he’s Tom Brady.  The Herald has reason to believe the toilet Welker is describing is the Toto Washlet Performance Toilet. Some of its features include a heated seat, an automatically closing lid, a blow dryer for your can, and perfume scents to take the smell away.  You can even get ones that come with a built-in MP3 player.

People like us bring our iPod into the bathroom with us if we think we’re going to be a while.  Multimillionaire quarterbacks consolidate.

For those of us who have experienced the Toucher and Rich Morning Show on Boston’s 98.5 The Sports Hub, the craziest question Madonna was asked at the Super Bowl on Thursday came as no surprise.  I’m sure Madonna has fielded questions that are much more bizarre than the one Rich Shertenlieb threw at her in Indianapolis, but probably not in a sports setting.  As only Shertenlieb or his partner Fred Toettcher would do, Rich decided to ask Madonna if the rumors about Alex Rodriguez having a painting that depicts himself as a half-man, half-horse in his house are true.  Here is a video of the exchange that The Nosebleeds passed along:

I’m not sure what would have been more embarrassing: the answer she gave about the picture of her on a horse or if she just simply said “yes, he does.”  Now we know A-Rod has (or had) a large picture of Madonna laying on a horse in his house.  In addition, he may or may not have a picture of himself depicted as a centaur.

Kudos to Shertenlieb for traveling all the way to Indianapolis to ask a question like that.  Considering these are the game guys who hung up on the legendary Bill Walton, a question of that nature was expected.

Don’t worry, folks: the Super Bowl is almost here. These next three days will be long ones, but we’ll all get through them together. Just think, when you finished watching the Giants overtime victory over the Niners back in January the big game was a full 14 days away. We’re in the home stretch. But until that time comes, let’s talk about Tom Brady’s socks.

In one of those “pass the time” feature stories that was written by Elizabeth Merrill of ESPN.com, we learned some interesting and entertaining information about Tom Brady. For example, he has a tendency to call his male teammates “babe” and likes to eat hummus and go surfing. Clearly, he’s a Cali bro. What I found to be particularly interesting is the information that Brady’s former Michigan teammate, tight end Aaron Shea, shared about No. 12′s dreams in college.

“‘If I hit it real big,’” Shea recalled Brady telling him, “‘I want to be able to wake up, put a pair of socks on, and at the end of the day, I throw ‘em away.’

“I’m like, ‘That’s all you want?’ And he goes, ‘Yeah, that’s what I want. I love new socks.’”

Mission accomplished.  Given some of the things we’re hearing about Brady and Gisele’s new mansion and its heated toilet seats, I’m guessing he has 365 pairs of brand new socks sitting in his house somewhere.  When you’re a multimillionaire with dreams that are are that simple, you truly can have it all. As for all those “old” pairs of socks that have only been subjected to a 16-hour workday, let’s just hope they find their way to the Salvation Army.

If I could put together a list of the last things on earth I would want Adriana Lima to subject herself to, climbing into the ring with Manny Pacquiao would probably be in the top five. According to ESPN’s Page 2, Lima grew up loving sports. Since she grew up in Brazil, all there was to follow was soccer. Now that she lives in America, one of Lima’s passions is boxing. As a model, boxing isn’t exactly a sport Lima can participate in. She does, however, enjoy sparring at the gym. And she wants to — gasp — spar with Pacquiao.

“My sports world dream is to spar three rounds with Manny Pacquiao,” Lima says. “I am obsessed with boxing and watch all of his fights.”

Don’t do it! Hasn’t she seen what the Pacman has done in the past to guys like Antonio Margarito?  Didn’t she hear about David Diaz comparing fighting against Pacquiao to being caught in a hail storm?  Doesn’t she watch Tosh.0? If she did, she would have seen Daniel Tosh regrettably agree to take a Pacquiao punch to the face.

I think I can speak for all of us in saying I hope this beauty never agrees to one round of a pillow fight with Pacquiao — or anyone for that matter.  If I’m not speaking for you, here are some pictures to remind you of why I should be.

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