Tom Brady's Lombardi Trophy toss offends daughter of trophy builder; Twitter has no sympathy for her

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Tom Brady's Lombardi Trophy toss offends daughter of trophy builder; Twitter has no sympathy for her image

Tom Brady is in trouble for giving the Lombardi Trophy the heave-ho off a party boat this week. Not with the NFL or the Buccaneers or even Tiffany's, which builds a new silver memento every year, but the daughter of the man who constructed the first Lombardi back in the mid-1960s.

Lorraine Grohs feels insulted by Brady's brazen act on the high seas and is requesting an apology. Her father, Greg Grohs, was the Tiffany's master silversmith who put together the first model. The trophy was later named in Lombardi's honor in 1970 after the coach's death.

Twitter, naturally, was highly understanding of Stroh's posi— wait, no, of course it wasn't. The consensus on social media Saturday was: Apologize for what?! If Brady has to apologize for THAT, then other athletes should apologize for doing worse things to championship silverware.

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Starting with Brady's teammate in Tampa and New England, Rob Gronkowski.

And we know that's not going to happen.

Also, let's hope for Ms. Grohs' sake that she isn't exposed to the countless things NHL players have done to the Stanley Cup, a trophy they revere. Some tame recent examples:

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Tom Gatto joined The Sporting News as a senior editor in 2000 after 12 years at The Herald-News in Passaic, N.J., where he served in a variety of roles including sports editor, and a brief spell at APBNews.com in New York, where he worked as a syndication editor. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of South Carolina.