The Patriots have not even be ACCUSED of anything by anyone with any knowledge of the actual events and facts. The league investigates balls that are taken out of play. Some idiot reporter takes that to mean the Patriots did something ridiculous, stupid and illegal. The league is investigating the football, not the Patriots.
No true Patriot fan would respond with "I'm sure we did it" so I conclude you are just a troll.
Just out of curiosity, where are you getting this from, because this is what I am looking for on NFL.com, which is where I would go for official stories, and I don't see it there one way or another. If we are the ones
responsible for providing correctly inflated balls, investigating the Patriots, not just the ball, seems to be logically implied, so I don't see it outrageous. I understand people are upset, I am too, because we are all tired of this, but if it is the NFL doing this investigation, and have admitted to doing it, I think most of our fan base is currently guilty of trying to shoot the messenger. The media reports on the smallest of issues to get a hit, so something like the NFL admitting they are investigating this isn't the media out to get us, it's the media doing their job, something they have always done.
Personally. I'm just interested in facts at this point. It's definitely something that is
possible, at least at the college level, since Lane Kiffin has been caught and fined for it. It's likely possible at the NFL level too, otherwise they wouldn't be investigating it. It's definitely something that could offer some advantage, otherwise there would be no fine and there would be no rule against it.
Now, IMO, more importantly, I think is the listed punishment. If indeed the punishment for deflated or inflated balls was written and known to be
only 25,000.....then it doesn't seem like a big deterrent. Unfortunately the cost of perception is much larger, so I still hope this is totally false.