NFL: Brady unhurt after Boston car wreck

BOSTON (AP) — New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was in a two-car accident near his home Thursday morning, but was unhurt and hours later practiced as usual with his team just days before the season opener.

The crash at an intersection in Boston’s Back Bay area knocked over a light pole and sent a passenger in the other vehicle to the hospital with injuries that were serious but not considered life-threatening, officials said.

A witness told The Associated Press that the two-time Super Bowl MVP was approaching the intersection on a green light when his Audi collided with a minivan. No charges have been filed.

Brady’s father had just arrived in Boston from the family’s California home early Thursday and found out about the accident when he got off his flight.

“I understand he’s fine, but I haven’t talked to him,” Tom Brady Sr. told the AP outside his son’s home three blocks from the accident site.

Patriots coach Bill Belichick told the team about the accident before practice and said Brady might be a bit late, linebacker Tully Banta-Cain said.

“I was hoping, obviously, that he was OK, but I saw him walking in. He had a smile on his face, no abrasions, so I think he’s fine,” Banta-Cain said.

Brady OKs contract to become NFL’s top paid player

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — A person with knowledge of the contract says Tom Brady has agreed to a four-year extension that would make him the NFL’s highest paid player.

The contract for the New England Patriots quarterback is worth an average of $19 million per year and begins in 2011, a person with knowledge of the deal said Thursday night. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the paperwork had not yet been filed with the NFL.

Brady is making $6.5 million this season.

The contract was first reported by Peter King of Sports Illustrated during halftime of NBC’s telecast of the Minnesota-New Orleans game.

Favre, wife give to Democratic U.S. Rep. Taylor

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre is tossing financial support to the congressional incumbent in his Mississippi home district.

Federal Election Commission records show Favre and his wife, Deanna, each gave $2,400 to the campaign of Democratic U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor.

The contributions were made this past November, and the Favres are among Taylor’s most generous contributors.

Brett Favre grew up in Kiln, which is near Taylor’s home in Bay St. Louis. The Favres have a home near Hattiesburg, also in Taylor’s district.

Taylor has been in Congress since 1989. He faces Republican Steven Palazzo and the Reform Party’s Anna Jewel Revies in the Nov. 2 general election.

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