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Kevin Youkilis Is (Reportedly) Engaged To Tom Brady’s Sister

According to the Boston Herald, Tom Brady’s sister Julie is engaged to marry Red Sox third baseman Kevin Youkilis. (For what it’s worth, the Herald previously ran a story saying Youk was dating another sister of Brady’s, then deleted it.) Apparently they met at a party after the Jets knocked the Pats out of last year’s playoffs. Hey, good for them, many happy returns, all that.

But the influence of this family on the Boston sports scene is almost too much to bear. It’s like sensory overload. The all-time great, champion-three-times-over Brady plus a Red Sox star who’s contributed to the team’s only two championships in the last 90 years, in one family? That’s hardly even fair.

And hey, Bradys: why stop here? There have to be relatives of Bill Russell, Larry Bird, Bobby Orr, Paul Pierce, Cam Neely, Dewey Evans, Pedro Martinez, Dustin Pedroia, and Bill Belichick you can start marrying too (or hey, maybe the guys themselves!), to bring them into the fold. There’s no going back now. Keep marrying Boston sports heroes and you’ll have a chance at the unlikeliest of feats: supplanting the Kennedys as New England’s preeminent family.

One other note: the Herald story reporting the news of the engagement contained this photo caption:

Red Sox slugger Kevin Youkilis, left, and Youk’s fiancee, Julie Brady, right, sister of Patriots QB/QT Tom Brady.

“QB/QT” almost makes us wish the engagement never happened, just so that wouldn’t have either. Ugh. Ughhhhhhhh.

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