Defense! Patriots quarterback Tom Brady consults hair specialists in play to cover bald spot
BY Corky Siemaszko
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Tuesday, November 30th 2010, 4:00 AM Townson/APNew England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has been ragged on by tween sensation Justin Bieber for his growing locks.
Dwyer/APAre you kidding me?! Tom Brady was reportedly spotted at a hair transplant clinic in Rhode Island.
The Jets aren't the only ones after Tom Brady's scalp. So is Mother Nature.
And with no offensive line to protect the New England Patriots quarterback from failing follicles, Brady has reportedly consulted a hair transplant specialist to keep his mane - and matinee idol image - intact.
Reports that Brady has been sacked by vanity - and the demands of supermodel wife Gisele Bundchen - are likely to be fresh meat for rabid Jets fans eager to beat the Patriots next Monday.Still, there's at least one New Yorker rooting for the balding Brady - if not his team.
We'll call him Bob.
"Get it done," the 67-year-old salesman, who got his hair transplant a decade ago, advised the NFLer. "You will look better. You will feel better."
Brady's strategy, which appears to be growing his locks long and stringy to cover up the bald spot, "is only attracting more attention to the problem," Bob said.
"Look at me - I look awesome now," said Bob, buttressing his claims with before-and-after pictures that show a full head of hair where once it grew only in patches.
Dr. Robert Bernstein restored Bob's hair. The doc's customers swear only their hairdressers know for sure they had it done.
Asked how Brady might fare, Bernstein said that judging by recent photos, it appears "he has good growth" and enough hair for a successful transplant.
The hair doc, whose Bernstein Medical Center for Hair Restoration is on E. 55th St., says there is a reason his results stand up to close scrutiny.
"Hair grows in natural groupings of one to four hairs," said Bernstein, who is also a dermatology professor at Columbia University. "By following the way hair grows in nature, we can produce natural results."
The transplanted hair, which comes from the back and sides of the patient's pate, "starts growing in 10 weeks and takes a year for the transplant to be mature," he said.
Bernstein is living proof that this procedure isn't for everybody; he's bald because he doesn't have hair to spare to perform a transplant. "Also, I've been bald since I was young, so I'm used to it," he said.
Reporters from the National Enquirer tracked Brady to the offices of Dr. Robert Leonard, a hair transplant specialist in Rhode Island who has worked on the noggins of several Boston Bruins.
The weekly says Brady went there on orders from the missus.
"Gisele wants to maintain that perfect-couple image - the handsome quarterback with a head full of hair and the stunning model with her own long flowing locks," the Enquirer reported.
Two years ago, Leonard told the Boston Herald that Brady was thinning around the crown and might have inherited the balding gene from his dad.
"The apple doesn't fall far from the proverbial baldness tree," Leonard said.
csiemaszko@nydailynews.com
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He should shave it off and stop the metrosexual BS.
and his wife should STFU too.
