Deflate Gate Is A Super Boil On Patriots Season

Have you ever had a pimple form on your face just before a big event that just won’t go away.  You try everything you can to get rid of it but instead of going away it just gets worse.
Before you know it is becomes a festering, throbbing pocket of puss just waiting to burst at just the right moment and ruin your time in the spotlight.

That is what is happening to the New England Patroits heading into their Superbowl 49 match-up with the Seattle Seahawks.

Deflate gate is the festering pimple turned super boil that is putting a serious blemish on an otherwise outstanding season by the Patroits.

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We should be celebrating the New England Patroits and Tom Brady.  After all this is Tom Brady’s sixth trip to the Superbowl in his career; a feat worthy of being considered the best quarterback ever to play the game.

We should be talking about head coach Bill Belichick’s amazing 15 year run as New England’s head man. A run that includes 14 seasons with double-digit wins. A legacy that will make him a hall of fame coach someday.  But instead of discussing historical legacies the media is discussing ball discrepancies.

The Deflate Gate scandal just won’t go away but before you go blaming the media consider for a moment the NFL’s involvement in all of this.

The league has done absolutely nothing to quell the media uprising over the scandal, saying only that the investigation will take several more weeks. The NFL is hoping that the buzz generated by the biggest event in American sports will eventually drown out the incessant media chatter about the scandal.

Instead the leagues silence has created a void being filled by speculation from nearly everyone ranging from scientists to hollywood stars. Speculation that could serve as a distraction for the leagues predominant franchise.

When asked if Deflate Gate was affecting his team ability to prepare, Tom Brady recalled his teams professionalism as they prepared for the game on Sunday.

"“I certainly hope not. I think we’re a pretty mentally tough team, and I think we’ve dealt with other things in the past,” Brady said. “I think Coach [Bill Belichick] has always said ‘ignore the noise’ and we have to focus on the task at hand, which is a great Seahawks team.I’m excited to play in another Super Bowl. You don’t get many of these opportunities in your life. … We finished our last practice [Sunday] here in Foxborough, and we head out [Monday] to Phoenix, so it will be good to get there and get into the week. I think we feel good about where we’re at.”"

The problem is that “the noise” has never been louder going into a Superbowl. Never before has a team been faced with questions about their integrity and credibility prior to the Superbowl.  Questions that, in the wake of the scandal, never seem to go away.

After arriving in Phoenix, Brady was forced to defend his integrity again.

"“Absolutely not,” he said. “No, I didn’t. And I haven’t. And I never will. I think that’s obviously how I feel and the kind of person that I am.“No one knows the facts,” he continued. “I pick 24 balls, that’s what I pick. Whatever happened after I did it, and whatever the situation was where they measured them, I have no idea any of those facts. So I try to stay really humble and deal with the facts that I know. When you don’t know something, that’s all you can say is, ‘I don’t know.’ I know that’s not always the answer that people want to hear, but that’s the reality.”"

As much as Brady and Belichick would like to move on from Deflate Gate, the scandal just won’t go away until punishment is handed down by the NFL.  Until that time Deflate gate will continue to be a major blemish on the Patroit’s season and on Superbowl 49.