Deadspin: After spending much of July 13 again explaining the trading loss to the media and to research analysts—including making the stunning admission that the traders in London may have intentionally mismarked the trades to make them look less egregious, a potential illegality that the Justice Department is still investigating—the exhausted [JP Morgan CEO Jamie] Dimon got an unexpected call from Tom Brady, the star quarterback of the New England Patriots. (Jimmy Lee, a legendary sports fan, had arranged for it.) Brady reminded Dimon that even Super Bowl champs have bad days and told him "to hang in there." "I was surprised he even knew who I was, to tell you the truth," Dimon says.
When you hear about an athlete or celebrity making a phone call to cheer someone up you always You hear about athletes and celebrities alike making phone calls and visiting terminally ill patients all the time, but up until now I've never heard of one calling a CEO of a fortune 500 company after he had a shitty day. Tom Brady is a human prozac; he'll do anything he can to make people happy. I've personally never had to tell anyone "Hey, remember how I said we lost 1 billion dollars. Well, in reality it was more like 6 billion dollars,"but I'd imagine it'd be a pretty shitty time. I don't remember hearing anything about Brett Farve calling up Ken Lay after that whole Enron thing went down. Why's that you ask? Because Brett Farve doesn't give two shits about anyone except for Brett Farve and TFB is a philanthropist .
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