“Don’t both teams have to play with the football?” a Facebook friend of mine promptly inquired in a post, mystified as to how the New England Patriots could come under investigation by the National Football League for “deflating” any of the balls used in Sunday’s conference championship game versus the Indianapolis Colts.
A fair question about an unfair tactic, to be sure.
OK, under further review, let us take a look at this weird, wild, farcical, you-gotta-be-kidding-me “controversy” that has, uh, blown up unexpectedly. It became the talk of talk radio Monday. and you could picture every staff writer employed by Letterman, Fallon, Kimmel and others tapping furiously on their laptops, coming up with joke after joke.
It was confirmed by an NFL official that the league was looking into the pretty preposterous possibility that balls used in New England’s easy 45-7 victory at Gillette Stadium were not adequately inflated.
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