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Definitely a Friday of Labor Day Weekend Thread , but I live in NYC and watched the Local NBC Affiliate's coverage of last night's game. FWIW, here is my paraphrase of the entirety of their commentary on Deflategate. It came at the beginning of the game:
Play by Play Guy: Well, Tom Brady is starting tonight but will miss the first four games of the Regular Season because of what you might remember happened after the AFC Championship Game a year and a half ago. After a long investigation the League wasn't really able to prove that he actually did anything, but the whole thing became a test of the Commissioner's powers under Collective Bargaining.
Color Guy (former player): Yeah, sort of like the Commissioner was saying, "I'm gonna do it because I can do it."
Play by Play Guy: Yeah.
That was it. You'd have thought they were Pats Homers. The New York media recognize a bunch of crap when they see it.
They later ran an absurdly fawning interview with and set of comments by OBJ about his pregame conversation with Brady. They also did a shorter piece with Eli about his conversation with Brady before the game and about how close Brady and the Manning family had become over the years.
Play by Play Guy: Well, Tom Brady is starting tonight but will miss the first four games of the Regular Season because of what you might remember happened after the AFC Championship Game a year and a half ago. After a long investigation the League wasn't really able to prove that he actually did anything, but the whole thing became a test of the Commissioner's powers under Collective Bargaining.
Color Guy (former player): Yeah, sort of like the Commissioner was saying, "I'm gonna do it because I can do it."
Play by Play Guy: Yeah.
That was it. You'd have thought they were Pats Homers. The New York media recognize a bunch of crap when they see it.
They later ran an absurdly fawning interview with and set of comments by OBJ about his pregame conversation with Brady. They also did a shorter piece with Eli about his conversation with Brady before the game and about how close Brady and the Manning family had become over the years.