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TV Azteca reporter doesn’t faze Patriots QB during Super Bowl media day

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Ines Gomez Mont of TV Azteca asks quarterback Tom Brady to marry her during media day on Tuesday.
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updated 1:22 a.m. ET Jan. 30, 2008

Everyone wanted a piece of Tom Brady at Super Bowl media day on Tuesday. Including one woman who wasn't his girlfriend, model Gisele Bundchen.

"Tom, I'm in love with you! Will you marry me please?" called a woman in a wedding dress.

"Are you really? Wow. I've never had a proposal," Brady responded, laughing.

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Always cool under pressure, Brady deflected the comment, which turned out to be from TV Azteca's Ines Gomez Mont. "What's your name first? Ines. Wow beautiful name, Ines."

"I'm the real Ms. Brady," Gomez Mont called out.

Brady, still smiling: "I've got a few Ms. Bradys in my life. I'm a one-woman man."

Even Patriots coach Bill Belichick got the TV Azteca treatment. When Gomez Mont told Belichick about her marriage proposal, he offered a non-committal answer. However, when Gomez Mont asked if the always serious coach if he thought she was better than Bundchen, that raised an eyebrow.

"I wouldn't go that far," Belichick said.

Talk did turn back to football, as Brady and his teammates addressed the quarterback's injured right ankle, among other topics at the always entertaining media day, where more than 4,000 credentialed media gathered. Though some seem to be tired of discussing Brady's foot, which has been the talk of Super Bowl ever since he appeared in New York last week wearing a walking boot.

"I mean, he's hurt. What do you want me to say?" receiver Randy Moss said Tuesday. "All I can say is what I see every day and hopefully he'll be out here Sunday."

Injury or not, Brady remains the envy of teammates — even without hearing about the "proposal."

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New England quarterback Tom Brady speaks during media day for Super Bowl XLII on Tuesday in Glendale, Arizona.

"If I could change one thing, I would be Tom Brady," Seau joked with the NFL Network's Deion Sanders.

The 18-year NFL veteran donned a sweet Havana-style hat for his session with reporters.

"I probably have 150 hats,'' the Patriots linebacker said. "I'm pretty sick with hats. The world hasn't seen this one yet, so I thought I'd throw it on."

Seau last played in the Super Bowl in 1994 in San Diego's loss to San Francisco.

"It's been 181 games since I've been part of a Super Bowl,'' he said. "The game that I played against the 49ers was basically a game that we were overmatched. We really were."

The Super Bowl was big then, but nothing like it is now, he said.

"It's definitely a bigger attraction, and there's definitely more media hype to it,'' Seau said. "It's a very important game, it really is."

Moss did his owned verbal jousting with reporters when asked about the Patriots' elite group of receivers.

"I'd say the fastest receiver on the Patriots' team is ... Randy Moss. I'd say the quickest receivers on the Patriots' team is ... Randy Moss. I'd say the strongest reporter on the Patriots' team is Bam Childress or ... Randy Moss," he said, laughing.

(SI.com reported that Jabar Gaffney had fun with Moss after that answer. "Everyone knows that I'm the fastest.")

Moss showed a serious side when asked about his future with the team.

"I've said it from the day that I've gotten here that I'm living a dream."

As a New England Patriot I would love to finish my career [here]. They have everything that you want," Moss said. "That's something I could really believe in."

Brady has a more business-like approach to any questions about his future:

"I'm 30 years old and in the eighth year in my career. I don't really think this is the time to evaluate your place in history. We're all still building our resumes. We are all still trying to achieve as much as we can. We have a great opportunity ahead of us. I don't think you reflect on what people will think about you 30 years from now. That doesn't do much good. Your focus should be on the game."

Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.

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