{"id":9219,"date":"2015-05-07T19:01:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T19:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9219"},"modified":"2015-05-07T19:01:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T19:01:51","slug":"deflate-gate-non-story-re-emerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9219","title":{"rendered":"Deflate-gate non-story re-emerges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Count me as someone who believes the New England Patriots’ “deflate-gate” story is, well, a non-story.<\/p>\n

You also can count me as someone who doesn’t believe all-world quarterback Tom Brady should face any serious punishment for what he might have known <\/em>about the balls that were deflated prior to the Patriots’ blowout win over the Indianapolis Colts in last year’s AFC championship football game.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/espn.go.com\/boston\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/12839315\/tom-brady-agent-says-wells-report-significant-terrible-disappointment<\/p>\n

The NFL lawyer who looked into this mess has determined that head coach Bill Belichick didn’t know anything about the balls. Nor did team owner Robert Kraft.<\/p>\n

Brady, on the other hand, “probably” knew that some hanky-panky was going on with the balls, that someone was letting some of the air out of them to make them easier to catch and handle.<\/p>\n

Probably knew?<\/p>\n

That’s proof of anything? Hardly.<\/p>\n

The only way this matter becomes relevant to anything is if the Patriots had won the game on a last-second hail Mary pass that Brady would have thrown to a receiver who couldn’t have held on to a properly inflated football.<\/p>\n

That didn’t happen. The Patriots blew the Colts away. As someone once wrote, the Patriots would have won playing with beach balls.<\/p>\n

I won’t get into the nuts and bolts of whether Brady should be suspended or fined or both.<\/p>\n

Whatever happened to those footballs prior to the AFC championship game had no bearing on the outcome.<\/p>\n

There. End of story? Oh, probably not.<\/p>\n\n

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Count me as someone who believes the New England Patriots’ “deflate-gate” story is, well, a non-story. You also can count me as someone who doesn’t believe all-world quarterback Tom Brady should face any serious punishment for what he might have known about the balls that were deflated prior to the Patriots’ blowout win over the … Continue reading Deflate-gate non-story re-emerges<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[159,628,1318,2266,3259,3302,4837],"class_list":["post-9219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-afc-championship-game","tag-bill-belichick","tag-deflate-gate","tag-indianpolis-colts","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-tom-brady"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}