Deflategate, The Scandal that Never Dies

via Greg M. Cooper (USA Today Sports)

Lynn, Massachusetts- Deflategate, the title donned upon the controversy over whether Tom Brady and the New England Patriots had purposely deflated game balls during the 2014 AFC Championship, just never seems to go the fuck away. Wasn't Brady finally found guilty or whatever? Or he was found guilty, given a suspension, and then had that suspension overturned? So nothing really happened? Can't we just move on from what should have been a pretty run-of-the-mill cheating scandal? No, we can never move on. Everything awful must stay with us forever. Deflategate has been reignited after a seventh-grader from Lynn, MA, Ben Goodell, won his school's science fair for his project that disproved the NFL's report that found Brady guilty. Goodell's science project, "How Weather Conditions Affect PSI of a Football," found that even if a ball is properly inflated, it can drop 2 PSI whenever exposed to severe weather conditions. The report issued by the NFL stated that the game balls were at most 2 PSI underinflated, so, using Goodell's findings, it is technically possible that the weather, not Brady, was responsible for this whole incident. Goodell found it his personal responsibility to prove Brady's innocence over a year after the whole affair. That's serious determination and dedication for justice. After this scientific rebuff to the NFL's report, maybe we can finally let Deflategate die. Oh who are we kidding? We're going to keep Deflategate alive for as long as possible. Now the NFL is probably going to launch an investigation on the climate and different weather patterns to see whether they played a significant role in this Deflategate scandal.

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