Tom Brady denies removing NFL logo sticker from helmet in preseason

We will not see Tom Brady on a football field for a month. But when he does return to the field in Week 5 and beyond, you can bet his helmet will have an NFL sticker on it.

Brady was accused of removing the sticker from the helmet in each of the final two New England Patriots preseason games. (Maybe that’s what he was using those shears for?)

Tom Brady wore a helmet that had no NFL logo sticker on it but denies removing it.

But Brady since has denied removing it to Westwood One’s Jim Gray.

“No, I didn’t,” Brady said Thursday night. “I don’t even pay attention to what’s on my helmet. I just hope the helmet is functional. That’s all I’m trying for the helmet to be. I don’t pay attention to the stickers or anything on there. I certainly didn’t remove anything.”

All of Brady’s teammates had the sticker during those two preseason games, the only two he played in. However, photographic evidence has shown that the sticker hadn’t been on Brady’s helmet for the course of the offseason, per the Providence Journal — even as far back as OTAs, when his fate with the four-game suspension (which began last week), was up in the air.

If it was somehow determined that Brady had removed it, he could be subject to a fine — and might be anyway, in the NFL’s mind. After all, the league didn’t prove Brady removed air from footballs himself and yet still suspended him for a quarter of the season, fined the team $1 million and stripped it of two draft picks.