Sorry. Might be there.

If not here: Don't forget the convenient timing of the whole ordeal. When the height of media (and not just NFL media) would be fixating on teh disastrous year the NFL and Goodell had (Ray Rice, Mueller Report, DV) this completely ridiculous story blows up, fueled by leaks from the NFL League Office. No one cared about the leagues procedures on ball care until this story. No one cared about how the refs dealt with the balls. No one cared about QBs messing with balls at all. No one cared or knew about the rules involved. NO ONE CARED. Now the Patriots are the perfect scapegoat/distraction, nearly every fan base hates them. They are widely successful and polarizing. They seem to play loose with the rules (Spygate, injury reports, wacko formations), they do not engender neutrals or casuals to like them with their tone (on to Cincinatti!) or players. They are generally a boring, corporate, disciplined team that constantly wins and seems to be at the heart of controversy. Now, the biggest media week for the sport is about to take place, coming off the bogus and incredibly biased Mueller Report talking about Goodell should lose his job and how poorly he and the league handled Ray Rice (2 game suspension, no 4, no 8, no 4eva!) and this gets released? Remind you the league supposedly knew about this for months, yet choose to investigate the AFC Championship Game? The story wasn't a huge deal initially, and slowly picked up steam early in the week. Then the Mort Leak which set off the frenzy and further with weird stuff coming out. Remember Brady's initial response was to laugh that Monday Morning. It wasn't until about Tuesday that this started becoming a huge story. Then we have Mark Brunnell and the Omnibus freaking on ESPN and everyone picking back up the 'Cheatriots' thing. We have people saying Brady and BB should be suspended for the SB and kicked out of football. We have their press conferences (the first BB one seems justified considering he was cleared by Wells) and this becomes the dominant story of the week rather than the SB, or Mueller, or Ray Rice. Hell it even gets picked up on fucking Day Time shows targetted for Housewives. Fueled by bogus leaks from the League Office. It was the most ridiculous story, yet here we are still freaking out over it. The Wells Report was not definitive and certainly appeared to lack objectivity. More probable then not? Oh. Such a great standard to start punishing people severely. There are enough holes that people ought to be questioning it. The Pats clearly highlighted many of the issues. But notice, we're no longer talking about how Goodell should have lost his job, now we're talking about PSI and how Brady/Kraft are cheaters. We have people rejoicing the 'Golden Boy' is being punished. We have ESPN putting out bogus stories about how Goodell is in a 'lose-lose' situation with the appeal. Isn't Goodell such the sympathetic figure here? We have Mike-N-Mike and every other corporate stoodge laughing at the Patriots and defending the league (remember what happened to Simmons for calling out the league!) and riling up the majority of average fans against the Pats and simply laughing off or outright ignoring all the holes in the Wells Report (.4 psi per ball, 12 balls in <2 minutes, the biased question/assumptions with regards to the ref and which needle he used). Again, we're no longer talking about how Goodell should have lost his job over the Ray Rice thing. Wait, I thought he was suspended two games, Roger? How could you then turn around and just punish him again? Yeah, fuck the Patriots. No seriously, fuck the NFL and Roger Goodell. Sorry I needed to rant. This whole thing has been fucking disgusting. Tom Brady maybe inflated a couple of balls is a way more important story than whether or not Roger Goodell saw that tape and got on TV and LIED to all us. Yeah, it was in the building, but he never saw it. Sure.