Tom Brady Just Casually Twitter-Murdered Tony Dungy Three Days Before Christmas

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There are few things in this life as gratifying as a good, vicious, nasty grudge. Unless it's one that involves an OLD good, vicious, nasty grudge. Even during the holiday season of peace and forgiveness, give me two tribes who's animosity stretches back through the ages who refuse to forgive one another for the sins of the past and let bygones be gone by, and I can get endless entertainment out of it. I mean, what is "The Mandalorian" but old rival factions not letting go of their beefs, even after two Death Stars have been turned into space dust? 

And so it is that another galactic hatred refuses to go away. And it's one that we all benefit from. That would be the early 2000s war between the Colts and the Patriots. A conflict so intense that even to this day, confirmed Man of God Tony Dungy can't find it in his heart to bury hatchets. He couldn't two and a half years ago:

He couldn't two Super Bowl trips and one championship later. And he couldn't earlier today. 

Yup. It's still happening. Tony Dungy, who was carried on the back of immobile quarterback Peyton Manning all the way to the Hall of Fame, still can't find it in his Christian heart to put immobile quarterback Tom Brady in his Top 6 all time. Because mobility is the be all and end all. More important than how many championships or postseason game you won. Unless you're a member of a small protected class of QBs who couldn't move. In which case St. Anthony of Indianapolis gives you Papal Dispensation. Here's what he said about this same list three years ago:

"I put Manning and Marino at the top of the nonscramblers because they didn’t have the benefit of dominant defenses.”

Which is a weird take coming from a supposed defensive-minded coach who won his only ring with Manning and probably worships at the altar of Don Shula. But enough about Dungy and his inconsistent, contradictory and self-serving arguments. How he changes his beliefs to suit his narrative is between him and his Savior. What I'm here for is Brady's response:

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Holy Moly. So much for that Commandment about how Thou Shalt Not Kill because Brady just straight up assassinated Dungy's conversation with this. Even if Dungy wasn't Indy's coach in 2015 when this monstrosity went up to the Lucas Oil rafters, he was still spiritually velcroed to this pathetic franchise. And Brady kicked them below the belt in their most vulnerable crotchal region. Proving that old animosities between failures who accuse opponents of deflating footballs and the man who defeated them can still die hard. Even if the man in question espouses a Zen-like "Four Agreements" of kindness and forgiveness. 

My only issue is something I've said before: I would've preferred my Tom Brady being more aggressively Low Road when he was here. I wanted him to be this pissy, condescending and snarky when he was in New England, instead of waiting until he was happily enjoying life under the palm trees to start sniping his enemies. To be less "Four Agreements" and more "Six Rings" (shameless plug). But whether your purely in the Patriots camp or totally forgiving Brady for leaving, any time he comes back so hard at someone who never gave him the credit he's earned, we can all rejoice.