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May 11, 2015:
The hypocritical lying members of the Flat Earth Society at 345 Park Avenue conclude that Tom Brady is a witch, and suspend him for the first four games of the season. In addition, Roger Goodell and his chief gangster Troy Vincent rob the Patriots of a first and fourth round draft pick, plus a million dollars.
NFL Hands Out Penalty: Brady Suspended Four Games, Patriots Lose Two Picks
The NFL dropped the hammer in a big way on Monday, likely kicking off a declaration of war between the league and one of their all-time greats after handing down their penalty for Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.
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The NFL dropped the hammer in a big way on Monday, likely kicking off a declaration of war between the league and one of their all-time greats after handing down their penalty for Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.
According to ESPN's Adam Schefter, the league has decided to severely penalize Brady and the Patriots, hitting him with a four game suspension, but it doesn't stop there. They're also reportedly taking away New England's first round pick in 2016, and a fourth round selection in 2017, as well as hitting the team with a $1-million fine.
As Schefter points out, the four game penalty would cause Brady to be a spectator until week five when the team heads to Indianapolis in a Sunday night battle against the Colts.
One would have to believe this suspension won't fully stand and that Brady will likely be back sooner following an appeal with the NFLPA. Brady said during his appearance at Salem State last week he'd have a response, "hopefully soon." Now we'll have to see how he and agent Don Yee will handle this, and it should definitely be quite a battle considering the severity of the penalty given the lack of concrete evidence the league has against him.
Former NFL QB says league is conducting 'witch hunt' against Patriots | Sporting News
Former NFL quarterback Shaun King says Deflategate is "complete baloney."
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Former NFL quarterback and current Yahoo NFL analyst Shaun King isn't buying into the claim that the Patriots' Deflategate saga is a crime against humanity.
Fans, experts and others have weighed in saying the league should come down hard on Tom Brady and his team after the findings of the Wells Report. King thinks otherwise. He believes the league is targeting the Patriots, and says every quarterback tinkers with the footballs.
“Complete baloney,” King said on CBS Sports Radio’s Gio and Jones. “I told you guys from the beginning, this is one of the bigger witch hunts in the history of the NFL, in my opinion. Being a former quarterback, I’m telling you: We all get in a room with the balls, and we find the balls we like. If we don’t have balls we like, we create balls that we like, and those are the balls that we use on Sunday. Every quarterback does it.”
Other quarterbacks have talked about getting the football the way they like it. The Packers' Aaron Rodgers says he likes to overinflate the ball more than the officials allow, and former Buccaneers quarterback Brad Johnson said he paid people to doctor the footballs.
There have been reports Brady will face a suspension for his role in Deflategate, and King can't believe it.
“It’s ridiculous," he said. "I know Roger Goodell has made some mistakes — some big ones. I think the league as a whole has mishandled some situations. But I hope we’re moving away from suspending people just to appease the public. If Brady gets suspended, I think that’s what the commissioner (would be) doing — and I think that’s a cop-out. I think that would make me look even less on Roger Goodell. We’ve really got to get out of this state. It’s more of a societal thing that’s infiltrated into sports where we do things just so people will be acceptive of what we did — even when we know what we did wasn’t right.”
The NFL Drops the Hammer, and Sends a Message
The severity of the NFL’s Deflategate punishment for Tom Brady and the Patriots was one of the harshest rebukes ever to an alltime great player, and a signal to the other 31 teams that it does not play favorites. Brady and the Pats must now weigh their options
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Initial reaction to the Tom Brady/Patriots deflated-footballs ruling by the NFL Monday: Stunning. Borderline astonishing.
The ruling left a multitude of stories in its wake. The overriding one was the severity of the punishment. The NFL equated an apparent scheme (and I say apparent, because the Wells report did not produce proof of it) to slightly underinflate footballs to some of the worst discipline cases in league history. That seemed to enrage New England owner Robert Kraft, who waited almost four hours Monday night before commenting on the sanction: “Today’s punishment ... far exceeded any reasonable expectation. It was based completely on circumstantial rather than hard or conclusive evidence.”
Officials used two gauges at halftime. On page 113 of the Wells report, after a description of the scientific Ideal Gas Law, Wells says that the Patriots footballs should have measured between 11.32 psi and 11.52 psi. The average of all 22 readings was 11.30 psi … two-one-hundredths lower what the Ideal Gas Law would have allowed for balls that started the day at the Patriots’ level of 12.5 psi. The Brady camp will surely argue that this case never should have been brought forth because of how close the Patriots’ footballs were to the minimum level.
Feb 28, 2024:
Retiring Peter King: 'Heart Sinks' About Patriots' Deflategate
Coverage of the New England Patriots' 'Deflategate' scandal is the one regret tenured sportswriter Peter King over an otherwise legendary sports journalism career.
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Reflecting on his career on CBS Sports Radio's "Maggie and Perloff," King offered but one regret, namely his coverage of the New England Patriots' "Deflategate" scandal that surfaced after the 2014-15 AFC Championship Game victory over Indianapolis.
When news of the phenomenon was first broken by ESPN, King reported that about a dozen of the footballs New England used were underinflated by two pounds. But the report filed by Manhattan attorney Ted Wells later determined there was only one that met that criteria, a mistake that haunts King to this day.
“When I think about it, my heart sinks,” King told hosts Maggie Gray and Andrew Perloff. “I confirmed the ESPN story about the deflated footballs after Deflategate first hit the scene. It turns out I was wrong."
In the aftermath, the Patriots franchise was fined $1 million and quarterback Tom Brady was suspended for the first four games of the 2016 season.
“That brought me a lot of shame,” King said of his error. “It doesn’t matter who I talked to. It doesn’t matter who told me anything. It’s my rear end on the line when I say something, when I confirm a story, and I was wrong ... that is something that will haunt me ... It bothers me, literally bothers me to this day.”
All parties wound up recovering from the incident and then some: King originally tenured a letter of resignation that was rejected by SI, where he spent three more years before moving on to NBC Sports. Brady, on the other hand, returned from suspension to headline the fifth of six Super Bowl runs with the Patriots, one that ended with the biggest comeback in the game's history against the Atlanta Falcons.
Aug 3, 2015:
Chris Mortensen: I could have done a better job vetting original Deflategate story
ESPN reporter Chris Mortensen broke his silence on Deflategate during an interview Monday.
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Six months later, Mortensen deletes inaccurate Deflategate tweet
On January 20, Chris Mortensen of ESPN tweeted that 11 of the 12 footballs used by the Patriots in the AFC Championship Game were under-inflated by two pounds of pressure per square inch.
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Aug 20, 2015:
ESPN Apologizes To Patriots For Sharing False Spygate Story
If you think DeflateGate is annoying, why don't you try on Spygate for size?
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ESPN APOLOGIZES…at 12:30 am…because the Patriots asked them to.
After most self-respecting East-coast folks had gone to bed, ESPN issued an on-air apology last night for some misinformation they’ve been reporting on the air. Well, OK. They even got their …
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ESPN apologizes to Patriots on air for citing inaccurate report - during midnight 'SportsCenter'
ESPN ran an official on-air apology to the New England Patriots organization for citing an inaccurate report alleging that the team cheated -- but it wasn't regarding Deflategate.
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March 3, 2016:
Lack of transparency on Deflategate made journalism tougher to judge
It's not ESPN's job to make fans happy, writes the public editor, but accountability questions on the football deflation story cloud view of coverage.
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ESPN adds clarification to Chris Mortensen’s incorrect Deflategate report
ESPN added a clarification to Chris Mortensen’s incorrect Deflategate report that 11 of the Patriots’ 12 footballs were underinflated two PSI.
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Oct 26, 2017:
ESPN's Chris Mortensen Finally Explains His Iffy Deflategate Reporting - NESN.com
Deflategate needs no further explanation. But the tweet that sparked one of the biggest fiascos in United States professional sports history? Well, there’s still more to the story. On Jan. 20, 2015, ESPN reporter Chris Mortensen tweeted, “NFL has found that 11 of the Patriots footballs used in...
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