This morning was an exercise in the power of modern media when Tom Brady got into a car accident. My own personal story was that I got up at 5am (west coast) to take a leak and heard my phone ding with a text message. It was from my sister and read:

Tom Brady was in an accident last night. They say he’s hurt.

I foolishly tried to go back to bed, but of course my mind was racing. First my thoughts turned to Brian Hoyer and how happy I was that he looked pretty good in the preseason. Light years better than Matt Cassel did in the 2008 preseason. 

I quickly got back up and turned on the computer. A quick scan of PatsFans.com quickly brought me up to speed. But not before seeing every wrong turn the story made before the truth came out. First Brady was driving a Bentley, later we found out it was really an Audi. First they used the jaws of life to get him out, later we found out that was really on the other car.

Now that we know Brady is okay and everyone is making jokes about it (like it was Bernard Pollard driving the mini-van) we can all relax. Hopefully the man in the mini-van that ran the red light is okay.

But it was an interesting exercise in how news breaks now, and how things like twitter and texting can quickly lead to false reports.