When superstar New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady suffered a knee injury on Sunday, his season was lost, but many YouTube videos were born.

In the above, Brady is hit over and over again ("Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!") as the screen mournfully declares, "Tom Brady has a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee."

More tribute videos, in which creative amateurs show off their Tom Brady-loving skills at a professional level, after the jump ...

If you favor minimalism and the use of words as art, you might enjoy this setting of plain-text statements (why mess with pictures?) to music that explains just what kind of day Tom Brady really had on Sunday. (Sample explanatory message, meant to convey the details of Brady's situation: "Wow this sucks for Pats fans.")

This guy dropped Tom Brady from his fantasy football team, and he can prove it, using this video of his computer screen shot while he completed the process of ... dropping Tom Brady from his fantasy football team.

It wouldn't be YouTube without reenactment knuckleheads. I admire the way this guy has gone all-out by drawing "12" and "Brady" on his back, just to ensure that he doesn't have to wear a shirt.

This one is a little perplexing. Watch for what happens around the 1:05 mark. Once you get to about 1:20, you've seen the whole thing. Not sure what happened here.

This one might be my favorite. I thought to myself, "Is this it? Is this all this person is doing?"

And then I realized: This is the video for people who don't use their computers for anything except YouTube. If you never go anywhere but YouTube, how will you hear about Tom Brady? Only when someone takes a YouTube video of his screen as he reads (and helpfully moves across with his mouse, kind of like moving your lips while reading a book) a story about Tom Brady on Yahoo! News.

Brady's injury, of course, is a setback for those who have used YouTube in the past to praise him, as in this setting of Tom Brady passes to John Williams' famous Superman theme.

Get well soon, Tom Brady. Your fans are dying to bust out "The Boys Are Back In Town."

--Linda Holmes

categories: Internet

9:30 - September 9, 2008

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