Tom Brady vs. Tony the Tiger -- this could get interesting

Tom Brady took on Roger Goodell this summer and won.

His Patriots are 4-0 this season and haven’t really come close to being tested.

So the New England quarterback is probably feeling pretty unbeatable right now. Maybe he was looking for a greater challenge.

So he decided to take on ... Tony the Tiger?

During a radio interview on Monday morning, Brady was discussing how the man he refers to as his body coach, Alex Guerrero, has helped him avoid injuries by, among other things, really watching what he eats and drinks.

At one point, the four-time Super Bowl champ explained why he doesn’t think Tony’s Frosted Flakes are so grrrreat!

“I think we’ve been lied to by a lot of food companies over the years, by a lot of beverage companies over the years,” Brady said. “But we still do it. That’s just America, and that’s what we’ve been conditioned to. We believe that Frosted Flakes is a food. … You just keep eating those things, and you keep wondering why we have just incredible rates of disease in our country. No one thinks it has anything to do with what we put in our body.”

He had similar complaints about a soft drink giant.

“You’ll probably go out and drink Coca-Cola and think, ‘€˜Oh, yeah, that’s no problem,’” Brady said. “Why? Because they pay lots of money for advertisements .... No, I totally disagree with that. And when people do that, I think that’s quackery. And the fact that they can sell that to kids? I mean, that’s poison for kids. But they keep doing it.”

Obviously it’s not a bad thing to be careful about what you put in your body. Nor is it wrong for a highly influential guy like Brady to promote a healthy lifestyle, especially for children.

He just might want to watch his back. There’s no telling what an angry cartoon tiger might do. And it’s a good thing, for Brady’s sake, that Mean Joe Greene isn’t a Coke spokesman anymore.