NFFA Daily Briefing TRADE TALKS FOR BRADY? Bakers-Animals ‘Big Apple Summit’ Confirmed

QCurl Sharif and Dave the Animal held a "strategic summit" at this New Jersey motel.

By Ariel Mutha-Tafoya

FSN Sports

Could Tom Brady be returning this year to the Cambridge Animals? 

That was a question on everyone’s mind Friday as word leaked out of a high-level meeting between the 12th Avenue Bakers, Brady’s current team, and the Animals. The face-to-face meeting between team owners QCurl Sharif and Dave the Animal, described by one person in the know as “a strategic summit,” took place in a New Jersey hotel room, sources said. 

As the NFFA pre-draft trading period opened, attention focused on Brady, the troubled QB said to be under a curse that plagues any team for which he plays. Sharif is said to despise Brady, whom he obtained from the Bubbas in a deal for He Cut Me, the player formerly known as Peyton Manning (whom he also despised). “I thought we were getting a quarterback, not a go-go dancer,” Sharif allegedly said last year.

No team with Brady under center has won an NFFA title, giving a certain credibility to the curse claim, noted FSN commentator Skip Clueless. Even so, the defending champion Animals hold Brady in such regard that it is conceivable they could risk a trade for him. “They covet him,” Clueless said. “Not a day goes by in the Animals’ front office that they don’t pine for him.”

A person who answered the phone at the Bakers offices but declined to identify himself confirmed that a meeting between Sharif and DTA had taken place — but not that a trade had been discussed. “Mr. Sharif was on his way to London for the weekend, and he stopped in New York on the way to visit his oldest friend, Dave the Animal, as he so often does,” the source said.

When a reporter went on to ask about the health of Bakers PR maven Faith Popcorn, who has not been seen in public since returning from Ukraine two years ago but is said to be “very close” to Brady,” the person in the team’s office was silent for several seconds. “If Brady does get traded,” he said, choosing his words carefully, “you can take that as a sign that Faith is alive and well and fully in command of her faculties. Sharif wouldn’t dare pull the trigger on a deal like that unless Faith had signed off on it.” Then he hung up.