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While undoubtedly causing hearts to stop all across New England, the video of Tom Brady wearing a walking boot Monday in New York was disturbing only in that it focused so little attention on Gisele Bundchen. . . .

Brady’s Brazilian supermodel girlfriend deserves better. . . .

By the way, Brady and the New England Patriots, favored by 12 points to defeat the New York Giants on Feb. 3 at Glendale, Ariz., won their first three Super Bowls under Coach Bill Belichick by a total of nine points. . . .

Fourth-quarter field goals by Adam Vinatieri, two in the final seconds, provided the winning margin in all three Patriots victories. . . .

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Only two other Super Bowls have been decided by three points or fewer. . . .

Ottis Anderson and the Giants won the closest Super Bowl, securing a 20-19 victory over the Buffalo Bills in 1991 when a 47-yard field-goal attempt by Scott Norwood of the Bills sailed wide to the right in the closing seconds. Belichick was the Giants’ defensive coordinator. . . .

Giants rookie Steve Smith’s last seven seasons: two L.A. City championship games at Woodland Hills Taft High; three Rose Bowls and an Orange Bowl at USC, two of them BCS title games; and, in 10 days, the Super Bowl. . . .

Has the feeling returned yet to Tom Coughlin’s face? . . .

Reader Bob Zeman e-mails to note that Patriots strength coach Mike Woicik, who previously held the same job with the Troy Aikman-era Dallas Cowboys, is not the only person in NFL history to win six Super Bowl rings. . . .

Neal Dahlen, a retired player personnel executive, won seven -- five with the San Francisco 49ers and two with the Denver Broncos. . . .

“They’re in the bank,” Dahlen says from his home in Centennial, Colo. “They’re heavy and gaudy and wonderful -- but not to wear.” . . .

Clippers owner Donald T. Sterling, who seems itchy to pull the plug on Coach Mike Dunleavy, has kept General Manager Elgin Baylor on the job for nearly 22 seasons despite a record that is more than 500 games below .500. . . .

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Why does Sterling not show the same loyalty to his coaches? . . .

Yes, Baylor was a transcendent player, but not for Sterling. . . .

It’s going to take a lot more than Norm Chow calling the plays for UCLA to become an immediate success under Rick Neuheisel. . . .

USC fans will recall that, even with Carson Palmer at quarterback, the Trojans were a mediocre offensive team in 2001, their first season under Chow, generating only 151 total yards in a 10-6 loss to Utah in the Las Vegas Bowl. . . .

With Wednesday’s hiring of running backs coach Wayne Moses, by the way, Neuheisel’s staff includes three members who were part of Pete Carroll’s first staff at USC, the same number of Carroll’s 2001 staffers still working at USC. . . .

With a season-high 25 points, Davon Jefferson was the star of USC’s upset of UCLA on Saturday, but an NBA talent evaluator says the freshman forward was only the sixth-best NBA prospect on the floor at Pauley Pavilion. . . .

The top prospect, the NBA executive says, was Jefferson’s teammate, Carmelo Anthony party pal O.J. Mayo, followed by UCLA’s Kevin Love, Darren Collison, Russell Westbrook and Josh Shipp. . . .

Said USC Coach Tim Floyd after the Trojans’ victory, “Young teams can sometimes get unrealistic after a win. That’s our challenge now.” . . .

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If women’s basketball is starved for attention, why was last Saturday’s USC-UCLA women’s game played at the same time as the men’s game? . . .

UCLA sophomore Chance Myers, taken by the Kansas City Wizards last week with the top pick in the MLS SuperDraft, is the fourth Bruin to be picked No. 1 overall, joining Tahj Jakins in 1997, Steve Shak in 2000 and Marvell Wynne in 2006. . . .

For fans of the late Jim Healy, the recent deaths of “Silver Tip” Stu Nahan, Johnny (“Ah, blow it out”) Grant and Georgia “Madame Ram” Frontiere were bitter reminders that a golden age in L.A. sports radio is long past.

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jerome.crowe@latimes.com

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