Tom Brady to hold out? Boston Herald punked

[Boris13c]

Boston Herald publishes fake Tom Brady story after being duped by prankster

A Boston Herald sports columnist fell for a Tom Brady head fake late Thursday, but this time the future Hall of Famer had nothing to do with it.

Ron Borges thought he had a major scoop when he heard the quarterback was so miffed that his former understudy had become the highest-paid player in NFL history that he was threatening to sideline himself if the Patriots didn't give him a matching deal.

It was true enough that Jimmy Garoppolo, who the Patriots traded to San Francisco midway through last season, signed a blockbuster, $137.5 million contract. But any idea that Brady was so peeved he threatened to sit out offseason training was fake news.

According Boston sports radio WEEI stars “Kirk & Callahan,” a listener known as “Nick in Boston” duped Borges by pretending he was Brady’s agent Don Yee.

“Nick in Boston” reportedly texted the Boston Herald columnist “Hello Ron, this is Don Yee… Brady is prepared to sit out all offseason team activity unless he gets a new deal with up-front money similar to what Jimmy got.”

Borges fired back, “Sounds like I need to write a column today.”

He did.

Citing unnamed “sources close to” Brady, Borges reported the quarterback was prepared to sit out unless and until the Pats ponied up. The now-deleted story was immediately questioned by several local reporters.

The verified Twitter account of “Kirk & Callahan” tweeted screen grabs of the alleged conversation and the shock jocks mocked Borges on their radio show on Friday morning. The WEEI hosts said on air that the prankster has been “working” Borges, pretending to be Brady’s agent since Jan. 20 and only had the Herald columnist’s phone number because he put it on Twitter.

The story was removed from the Herald website and links to the bogus article now direct readers to the paper’s homepage.

[MrPrettyBoyFancyLad]

love great pranksters! i love that guy who sends emails under a phony account to people in the white house who eventually give up information. i wonder how many heart attacks this guy is responsible for in the new england area.