Nothing wrong with wife having Patriots' Tom Brady's back

SALT LAKE CITY — Hard as it is to imagine, I find myself sympathizing with a pretty boy quarterback and his supermodel wife.

Which is unusual. My tendency is to want to throw fruit at them.

Instead, I decided this week that I like Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady and wish them well in their practically perfect lives. So what if he's richer, smarter, better looking and more talented than everybody (except her). Never mind that his impossibly glamorous wife and their 2-year-old son stroll in the park wearing expensive matching outfits.

Maybe the super-couple really didn't get matched up by a marketing firm.

Could it be that Brady and his wife actually care for one another?

There are undoubtedly oily gossip sites that disagree, but I'm going to say yes.

Normally I don't spend a ton of time celebrity watching. I just found out who Katy Perry is last week. I only read the National Enquirer if I'm waiting to get my tires rotated. My big brush with celebrity came when someone told me I had barely missed seeing Goldie Hawn in a mall in Houston.

Usually I view things the same as everyone else who isn't a multi-millionaire. I assume people like the Bradys are selfish and phony. I look at such pairings and figure they're planning a reality show together, not a life. But when I saw that Bundchen defended her husband after the Super Bowl, I didn't hate it.

Since when is sticking up for your spouse a crime? I know she threw Brady's teammates under the bus, and Bill Belichick probably wants to strangle her. Still, I like to think my wife would do the same, minus the expletive.

Of course, I like to think I'm NFL quarterback material, too, so there you go.

The impetus for my sentimentality was the story that made the rounds Monday. A website called TheInsider.com caught Bundchen on video, responding to a heckler after the Super Bowl. She said, "My husband cannot (expletive) throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time. I can't believe they dropped the ball so many times."

This undoubtedly embarrassed her husband to tears, mainly because he respects his receivers. He even went so far as to call Wes Welker "a phenomenal player and teammate and I love that guy."