Did Greenwich just gain a bunch of Bradys?

The rumor is that Tom Brady closed on Lower Cross Road yesterday, The Conyers Farm property, priced at $13.9 million, has been reported as pending since last May, so there’s been a long delay; up in this price range buyers usually don’t have to beg their wives for an advance on their allowance, but maybe Gisele’s been strict these past six months — who knows?

But it’d be fun to have Bradys in town, and if the QB is as visible — and friendly, as Ron Howard was when he lived here, we could have some nice, if brief encounters. Certainly it’d be more exciting than running into any one of our hundreds of hedge fund billionaires. I mean, Cliff Asness is a great guy, and I was delighted to meet him, once, but did he generate that “tingle up the leg” Chris Matthews speaks of? No.

So I hope the rumor’s true. I’m headed into the Maine woods and won’t be able to check the daybook in the Town Clerk’s office (not that would tell us much, as purchases of this size are almost always done in the name of an anonymous LLC) and we’ll just have to wait a bit to find out.

Whoever has bought it did so at a discount, even if he paid full price — the previous sale, in 2014, was for $15.850.

Plenty of room for tag football

UPDATE: Someone else is reporting this, but with no more backup than I have, so take it with a grain of salt.

UPDATE II: Well, dang! Reader “Jet” debunks the rumor, and I give a confident debunking more credibility than the original rumor it’s debunking. Here’s Jet:

“I can 100% confirm that this story is false. While it would have been nice to see Tom, and even nicer to see his wife around town, they are not the new owners of 19 Lower Cross.”