Never mind, Eli Manning.
JPMorgan chief Jamie Dimon, while being blitzed with controversy last May after disclosing an embarrassing $6 billion loss at the bank sparked by the so-called London Whale, got a pep talk from star New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.
“Brady reminded Dimon that even Super Bowl champs have bad days and told him ‘to hang in there,’ ” according to an upcoming report.
The chat was arranged by JPMorgan rainmaker Jimmy Lee, according to Vanity Fair.
In tapping Brady, Lee bypassed a closer-to-home star, Manning, whose New York Giants beat Brady’s Patriots in the Super Bowl just three months earlier.
At the center of the massive trading losses was UK-based credit-derivatives trader Bruno Iksil, who came to be known as the London Whale for the outsize bets he made.
Both Iksil and his boss, Ina Drew, head of the bank’s Chief Investment Office, which oversaw the trades, have left the firm.
Although JPMorgan shares have since shaken off the embarrassing blunder — closing yesterday at $41.82, up more than 15 percent from their late spring low — the scandal tarnished Dimon’s reputation.