Patriots QB Brady on Buffalo hotels: "Not the nicest places"
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is in the crosshairs for "bashing" Buffalo hotels.
During Wednesday"s press conference before the Sunday"s Super Bowl, the superstar quarterback said the following about Buffalo"s lodgings, according to BuffaloNews.com, which is chronicling the mini-controversy:
"I don"t know if you guys have been to the hotels in Buffalo," Brady said regarding his dad"s travels to watch him. "But they"re not the nicest places in the world."
That"s all he said!
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In fact, the Buffalo News even agrees that Brady "was right."
"Many locals viewed his comment as an unnecessary cheap shot and an inaccurate depiction of what the city has to offer," the Buffalo News article says. "Perception, however, is reality in many cases."
Unlike other cities where pro athletes check in that have plenty of opulent hotel options, Buffalo doesn"t have a single Ritz-Carlton, Four Seasons or St. Regis.
Yet, Brady"s simple remark was enough to put Buffalo boosters on the defensive, the Buffalo News says:
"Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., fired off a tweet that suggested Rob Gronkowski, Brady"s mammoth tight end from Amherst, would be bitter enough about the snub to quit on him. "Hey Tom," Schumer wrote, "why not ask @RobGronkowski how great #Buffalo is? Good luck getting him to catch your passes."""I know Buffalo well. It"s just run-down," Damien Woody, an offensive lineman who played 12 seasons in the National Football League, told the Buffalo News. He made five trips to Buffalo with the Patriots and three trips with the New York Jets, the story says. "Buffalo"s one of those places where you"ve got to be from Buffalo to appreciate it."David Carroll, president of the Hotel Motel Association of Western New York, told the Buffalo News that he thinks the response was an overreaction, and that Buffalo"s hotels deserve more credit. The major downtown hotels, for instance, have modern amenities such as flat-screen TVs and Internet, he says.
"Look, we"re not Las Vegas, where they remodel every year. But we take it seriously. When Tom Brady says that, it"s just another guy who doesn"t know what he"s talking about," Carroll told the paper.
Visit Buffalo Niagara also weighed in on the controversy, citing high-end hotel options such as The Mansion on Delaware Avenue, a member of Historic Hotels of American and a Four-Diamond-rated hotel. But the Buffalo News points out that this charming hotel has jus