{"id":9229,"date":"2015-05-08T03:18:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T03:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9229"},"modified":"2015-05-08T03:18:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T03:18:18","slug":"thanks-tom-for-keeping-deflate-gate-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9229","title":{"rendered":"Thanks, Tom, for keeping &#039;Deflate-gate&#039; alive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Oh, I was so hoping Tom Brady could take the air out of the Deflate-gate story today.<\/p>\n<p>The New England Patriots quarterback didn&#8217;t deliver. Instead, he kept this non-story buzzing by refusing to discuss it in front a friendly crowd gathered at a long-ago-scheduled public appearance.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/other\/tom-brady-declines-to-go-into-detail-on-wells-report-deflategate\/ar-BBjosTF<\/p>\n<p>He came into the hall packed with about 4,000 cheering fans and then declined to say anything about the NFL report that says he &#8220;probably&#8221; knew something about the footballs that were underinflated prior to the Patriots&#8217; rout of the Indy Colts in the AFC championship football game.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no proof that Brady did anything wrong. No proof that he &#8220;cheated.&#8221; Nothing that says he watched some mysterious individual deflate the balls to make them more catchable and throwable.<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t deny doing anything wrong. He didn&#8217;t say anything.<\/p>\n<p>The story won&#8217;t disappear, even though it should.<\/p>\n<p>We can thank Tom Brady&#8217;s tight lips for keeping it alive and kicking.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, I was so hoping Tom Brady could take the air out of the Deflate-gate story today. The New England Patriots quarterback didn&#8217;t deliver. Instead, he kept this non-story buzzing by refusing to discuss it in front a friendly crowd gathered at a long-ago-scheduled public appearance. http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/other\/tom-brady-declines-to-go-into-detail-on-wells-report-deflategate\/ar-BBjosTF He came into the hall packed with about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9229\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thanks, Tom, for keeping &#039;Deflate-gate&#039; alive<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[159,1318,2264,3259,3302,4837],"class_list":["post-9229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-afc-championship-game","tag-deflate-gate","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-tom-brady"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9229","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=9229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}