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{\an8}The story of the Patriots

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{\an8}is success through great leadership.

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And that's Robert Kraft.

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Robert is an example
of the American Dream.

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Started with very little
and built a great business empire.

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<i>The New England Patriots,
solidifying their team as an NFL dynasty.</i>

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He's known
for his leadership of the Patriots,

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and of the NFL.

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And, I think, admired everywhere.

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After the third Super Bowl,

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there was a lot
of public media attention...

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...and I was invited

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{\an8}on a trip to Russia.

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We got there, then Putin emerged.

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{\an8}Little guy, but frightening figure.

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Putin was going out to speak to the media

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and asked us to stand behind him.

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Rupert Murdoch
was standing right beside me

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and I was told,

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"Why don't you show the president
your Super Bowl ring?"

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The Super Bowl ring,
it's a very big, ostentatious thing.

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I wouldn't say it's in the best of taste.

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But... the recipients of it
wouldn't agree with me.

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I pulled the ring
out of my pocket and I gave it to him.

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He put it on, and then he looked at me.

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And he said,
"I could kill someone with this ring."

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"I could kill a man with this."

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And, you know, we knew he damn well could.

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So I did a whiplash
and I said, "Mr. President,

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you could kill someone without it.

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You know, you were head of the KGB."

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He took the ring off,

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and I had my hand out
and he took the ring.

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He put it in his side pocket.

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Three KGB guys come around him
and he's off.

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"He's still got my ring."
I said, "Go and ask him. Get it back."

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He said, "Oh, I couldn't do that."

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And let's just say somehow
the story wound up in the <i>New York Post.</i>

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And it became
a global, international story

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that Putin stole my ring.

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A call came in from the White House,

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and they said,
"It would be good for US-Soviet relations

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if you meant to give them
the ring as a gift."

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It was unbelievable, the attention it got.

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But to tell you the truth,

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we were used to all this attention
at this point in our lives.

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- <i>Tom Brady...</i>
- <i>Tom Brady...</i>

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<i>He's the best of all time.</i>

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<i>Oh, caught. Touchdown!</i>

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<i>Right now, the best team
in the National Football League.</i>

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<i>Perfection personified
by the Patriots.</i>

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- NFL history!
- Oh, yeah!

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<i>What these guys have
accomplished together is unbelievable.</i>

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{\an8}The Patriots,
after winning many games...

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{\an8}I think the people of America,
they're just getting sick of it.

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Give me a chest bump.

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There's a saying in Australia,
the Tall Poppy Syndrome.

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If someone's very successful, people
look up to it and want to tear it down.

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That's a tall poppy situation.

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Our team
was performing at a level,

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no one could believe it.

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And anyone who's fortunate to be
in that position has to understand,

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jealousy and envy are incurable diseases.

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{\an8}<i>Tom Brady,
the guy with the perfect life,</i>

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<i>with the perfect wife
that you could root against.</i>

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When you become number one,

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people are going to come after you
every way they can.

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<i>Brady, Brady, Brady.</i>

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<i>Playing for the AFC
Championship here in New England,</i>

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<i>as the Colts take on the Patriots.</i>

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<i>And the winner to advance
to Phoenix and Super Bowl 49</i>

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<i>to take on the Seattle Seahawks.</i>

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<i>Brady hands it to Blount...</i>

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<i>And he's got the touchdown.</i>

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<i>Touchdown, New England.</i>

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<i>And it's 7-0 New England,
not even five minutes into the game.</i>

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<i>The former Patriot Adam Vinatieri
back at New England.</i>

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I was on
the Indianapolis Colts since 2006.

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{\an8}The Colts were probably
New England's biggest rival in the AFC.

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We had a huge hatred for the Patriots,
to say the least.

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The one thing that was stopping us
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were the New England Patriots.

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<i>Develin,
who is able to bounce off the hit.</i>

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<i>Touchdown, New England.</i>

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<i>And it's 14-0 here in the first quarter.</i>

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We always felt like,
they can't be this successful.

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So, we spent a lot of extra time

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trying to figure out or see
if they were doing anything special.

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<i>Brady, Brady,
Brady, Brady, Brady, Brady, Brady...</i>

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That AFC championship
game was, in many ways, a coronation.

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Patriots heading to the Super Bowl.

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But unbeknownst to the media,

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unbeknownst to the fans...

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...unbeknownst to the Patriots...

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...the Colts had been tipped off

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{\an8}by the Patriots' previous opponent,
Baltimore Ravens,

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{\an8}that the Patriots
had been tampering with footballs.

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And then the Colts alerted the NFL
by e-mail that the Patriots were cheating.

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So, the NFL was lying in wait.

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And they were all looped in
prior to the game.

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All the Colts needed was to get their
hands on a football from the Patriots.

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<i>Intercepted by D'Qwell Jackson.</i>

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D'Qwell Jackson picked Brady off,

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went to the sideline and all of a sudden,
the Colts equipment managers

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are poking the football,
trying to find some kind of smoking gun.

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This started the beginning of one of the
most bizarre controversies in NFL history.

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It's as predictable
as the sun coming up tomorrow.

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After every big win
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there are those who accuse Bill Belichick
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of breaking the rules to get the victory.

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The latest headshaking theory,
under-inflated footballs.

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Deflategate.

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- Deflategate.
- Deflategate.

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<i>- Deflategate.
- Deflategate.</i>

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<i>Deflategate.</i>

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A tweet
from one of the most respected writers,

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ESPN's Chris Mortensen,

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alleged that 11 of the 12 balls
were significantly under-inflated.

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{\an8}Sometime in the last half hour
leading up to kickoff,

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{\an8}those balls are returned to the teams
in the bench area,

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{\an8}and then who had those...
control of those footballs?

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{\an8}<i>The advantage
of playing with an under-inflated ball?</i>

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{\an8}<i>It's easier to grip and catch,
especially in foul weather.</i>

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<i>That organization
is willing to do quote unquote,</i>

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<i>"Whatever they need to do
to try and win."</i>

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<i>It's not the first time
they've skirted the rules.</i>

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We went through it
with Spygate seven years earlier.

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And I said, if this shit's true,
Bill Belichick's got to go.

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You can't do this.

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It cuts to the heart
of the integrity of the game.

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All right,
I'll start off by addressing the...

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the football issue here.

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When I came in Monday morning,
I was shocked to...

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learn of the news reports
about the footballs.

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{\an8}I could tell you
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{\an8}I have never talked to any player

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about football air pressure.

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I think we all know that quarterbacks,
kickers, specialists,

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have certain preferences on footballs,

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and Tom's personal preferences

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on his footballs
are something that he can talk about

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in much better detail
than I could possibly provide.

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Wait a minute. Oh, boy, really?

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{\an8}"Our quarterbacks? They can tell you
more about that. Ask the quarterbacks."

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"Ask Tom. Tom'd know."

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"You'll have to ask the quarterback."

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I've told you everything I know.

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What Belichick perceived in this

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was because of the shit
that happened with Spygate,

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I'm gonna be in the crosshairs for this.

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I have no explanation for what happened.

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So, he wanted to make sure that he was...

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...as best he could.

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We will take steps in the future

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to make sure that we don't put ourselves
in that type of potential situation again.

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{\an8}Did Coach Belichick
just throw his quarterback under the bus?

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{\an8}Threw Brady over the side.

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{\an8}Star quarterback Tom Brady's fault.

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Hi, guys, how you doing?

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{\an8}Tom, when and how
did you supposedly alter the balls?

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{\an8}I didn't, you know, have any... You know,
I didn't alter the ball in any way.

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You know, obviously I woke up
Monday morning and that was...

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Well, the first I heard of it.

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Tom, this has raised a lot of
uncomfortable conversations

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for people around this country
who view you as their idol.

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The question they're asking themselves is,
"What's up with our hero?"

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So, can you answer right now,
is Tom Brady a cheater?

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I don't believe so.

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I feel like
I've always played within the rules.

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I'd never do anything to break the rules.

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You know, I believe in fair play,

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and I'll always believe in that
as long as I'm playing.

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Early on, I kind of laughed it off.

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But there was a lot of built-up tension
and hate from a lot of people

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that was part of, I think, our success
of the Patriots, you know?

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I wish I could give you more answers or
the answers you guys were looking for,

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but I don't have some of those answers.

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Your fans are watching.

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So if they're looking in that camera,

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what do you say
to the fans of the Patriot Nation?

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What would you like me to say?
I'm not quite sure.

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You say whatever you like, guy.

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You're the guy.

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{\an8}Everybody's bombarding him with questions.
I think it caught him off-guard.

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He was stung.

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Brady did not handle it well.

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He was not at his best.

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I think if there was a hornets' nest,
I mean, man, was I in it.

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<i>Tom Brady hit the podium for 31 minutes.</i>

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<i>Taking the hits from reporters,</i>

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<i>but insisting he knew
and noticed nothing.</i>

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<i>Tom Brady said,
"I didn't alter the ball in any way."</i>

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- Okay, so who did?
- Who did?

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Who did?

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{\an8}Well, I think
really what it comes down to now

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{\an8}is trying to determine
why were those footballs deflated?

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And how did they get to that?

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Thank you, guys. Goodbye.

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After Brady's press conference,
there were even more questions.

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And a few days later, the NFL says,
"We're gonna get to the bottom of this."

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{\an8}We are conducting
a thorough and objective investigation.

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We are focusing principally
on two questions.

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Why were some footballs used in the game

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that were not
in compliance with the rules?

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And was this the result
of deliberate action?

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The NFL is going to begin its
independent investigation with Ted Wells.

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{\an8}<i>The NFL has hired Ted Wells,
getting a truly independent person.</i>

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{\an8}<i>Wells is the key here,
because he will get to the bottom of it.</i>

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Ted Wells was a big gun.

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I mean, his law firm had been
involved in defending tobacco companies.

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So, for Roger Goodell to get a guy
like Ted Wells to run an investigation

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added to the notion
that maybe something had happened.

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And all of a sudden, in the week
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this pissant little conversation
about deflated footballs

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kind of overshadowed everything.

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<i>Boy, the New England Patriots
better win this Super Bowl.</i>

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<i>If they lose this Super Bowl,</i>

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<i>everybody's going to be talking about,</i>

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<i>"And that's what happens
when you're forced to play fair!"</i>

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<i>The New England Patriots' legacy
is officially on the line.</i>

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<i>I think that Tom Brady
has some questions to answer.</i>

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<i>America is looking at him
with a jaundiced eye.</i>

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<i>That "Tommy Perfect" is not perfect.</i>

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The two weeks
were very difficult on Tommy.

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He was taking it...

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...very hard.

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When the Deflategate happened,

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{\an8}and Tom was the headliner
of the whole situation.

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He addressed us as a team.
You can tell that he was distraught.

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He said, "This is something I wouldn't do.

231
00:14:29,494 --> 00:14:32,289
I would not ruin this season for us.

232
00:14:33,415 --> 00:14:35,250
The allegations are false."

233
00:14:36,502 --> 00:14:39,421
He was actually
bawling his eyes out in front of us.

234
00:14:45,177 --> 00:14:47,346
{\an8}Tom can be a very fiery person.

235
00:14:47,346 --> 00:14:49,890
{\an8}But he can also be a very soft person,
very emotional.

236
00:14:50,974 --> 00:14:54,394
It took a massive toll on him
because of his kids.

237
00:14:54,394 --> 00:14:57,564
Just having to listen to his kids
come home from school

238
00:14:57,564 --> 00:15:00,400
and talk about the things
they heard from their friends

239
00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:02,236
or their teachers or whoever.

240
00:15:02,236 --> 00:15:03,487
I felt for him.

241
00:15:05,614 --> 00:15:08,408
When the shots
are being fired at you, you can handle it.

242
00:15:08,408 --> 00:15:12,412
When they're being fired at people
you care about, that's when it gets hard.

243
00:15:13,664 --> 00:15:20,337
Cheater! Cheater! Cheater!

244
00:15:20,337 --> 00:15:24,091
We've been to many games
where people didn't like my brother,

245
00:15:24,091 --> 00:15:26,093
yelling obscene things,

246
00:15:26,093 --> 00:15:31,098
{\an8}but this was different, because
they were going after his character.

247
00:15:31,807 --> 00:15:33,433
They didn't believe him.

248
00:15:33,433 --> 00:15:35,894
Cheater! You cheat!

249
00:15:35,894 --> 00:15:39,189
<i>The AFC Champion,
the New England Patriots.</i>

250
00:15:43,485 --> 00:15:46,071
It was extraordinarily difficult

251
00:15:46,071 --> 00:15:48,740
in the life of the Brady family.

252
00:15:48,740 --> 00:15:52,327
{\an8}Not only did I suffer from it,
but my wife...

253
00:15:52,327 --> 00:15:53,996
{\an8}It crushed her.

254
00:15:53,996 --> 00:15:56,415
Because he's not a liar.

255
00:15:56,415 --> 00:15:58,917
{\an8}I felt very helpless as a mom.

256
00:15:58,917 --> 00:16:00,919
{\an8}I mean, usually when your kids are little,

257
00:16:00,919 --> 00:16:03,672
you can hold them
or you can fix their problems.

258
00:16:05,174 --> 00:16:09,219
And watching Tommy
having to go through this,

259
00:16:09,219 --> 00:16:11,388
you know, there's nothing
we could do about it.

260
00:16:12,848 --> 00:16:16,059
But for Tommy on the football field,

261
00:16:16,059 --> 00:16:20,480
that's when he could prove to the world
that he was calling the shots.

262
00:16:21,648 --> 00:16:23,734
All right. Let's go, boys.

263
00:16:23,734 --> 00:16:24,943
Let's go whoop their ass.

264
00:16:24,943 --> 00:16:26,445
One. Two. Three. Super Bowl champs.

265
00:16:32,868 --> 00:16:35,579
<i>Brady throws. Caught.
LaFell, touchdown.</i>

266
00:16:37,539 --> 00:16:39,166
{\an8}We wanted to beat the Seahawks.

267
00:16:39,166 --> 00:16:41,043
{\an8}They were a little bit cocky, I would say.

268
00:16:41,043 --> 00:16:42,836
<i>Wilson.</i>

269
00:16:42,836 --> 00:16:44,379
<i>To Lynch.</i>

270
00:16:45,672 --> 00:16:47,466
<i>Touchdown!</i>

271
00:16:47,466 --> 00:16:49,885
{\an8}It was so back and forth of we'd score...

272
00:16:49,885 --> 00:16:52,429
<i>And Brady's gonna throw
deep down the right side</i>

273
00:16:52,429 --> 00:16:54,556
<i>for Gronkowski and a touchdown.</i>

274
00:16:54,556 --> 00:16:55,974
...they'd score.

275
00:16:55,974 --> 00:16:58,018
<i>And it's caught! Touchdown.</i>

276
00:16:58,018 --> 00:16:59,603
That was a clash of the titans.

277
00:17:00,312 --> 00:17:02,898
<i>Play fake. The lob, wide open.</i>

278
00:17:02,898 --> 00:17:05,483
<i>Touchdown, Doug Baldwin.</i>

279
00:17:06,568 --> 00:17:09,655
<i>This game is turning into something here.</i>

280
00:17:09,655 --> 00:17:12,491
<i>We could be playing football
all night tonight.</i>

281
00:17:14,242 --> 00:17:16,954
<i>Tom Brady, he said to us yesterday,</i>

282
00:17:16,954 --> 00:17:22,041
<i>he said, "There would not be a game
I would want to win more than this one."</i>

283
00:17:22,709 --> 00:17:25,963
<i>Under five minutes, a three-point game.</i>

284
00:17:26,922 --> 00:17:29,341
Hey, we need
a big fucking championship drive.

285
00:17:29,341 --> 00:17:31,760
- That's what we need. Ready?
- Break!

286
00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:34,054
Fifty-four. Hike-hike!

287
00:17:34,054 --> 00:17:36,098
<i>Second and 11.</i>

288
00:17:36,807 --> 00:17:39,017
<i>Brady, and as he throws,</i>

289
00:17:39,017 --> 00:17:40,602
<i>caught by Gronkowski.</i>

290
00:17:42,187 --> 00:17:43,355
<i>Second and goal.</i>

291
00:17:44,565 --> 00:17:46,066
Hey, 50!

292
00:17:49,069 --> 00:17:50,487
<i>Tom looks left.</i>

293
00:17:50,487 --> 00:17:51,822
<i>Throws for Edelman.</i>

294
00:17:51,822 --> 00:17:53,949
<i>Touchdown, Patriots!</i>

295
00:17:53,949 --> 00:17:56,076
<i>They're back in the lead!</i>

296
00:17:57,911 --> 00:18:00,581
{\an8}Touchdown. We're back in the game.

297
00:18:01,415 --> 00:18:03,375
There's a light at the end of the tunnel.

298
00:18:03,375 --> 00:18:05,919
<i>And that makes it a 4-point lead.</i>

299
00:18:06,628 --> 00:18:10,132
We're up by 4
in the 4th quarter of a Super Bowl.

300
00:18:10,132 --> 00:18:13,218
{\an8}You love the part,
6 minutes to go and you have the ball.

301
00:18:14,428 --> 00:18:16,805
{\an8}You hate the part
with 2 minutes to go and you don't.

302
00:18:16,805 --> 00:18:19,266
<i>Under a minute and a half to go.</i>

303
00:18:20,058 --> 00:18:22,019
<i>Good snap to the quarterback.</i>

304
00:18:22,019 --> 00:18:25,606
<i>Russell fires down the right side.</i>

305
00:18:28,567 --> 00:18:31,528
<i>He's got Kearse,
and the ball is knocked incomplete.</i>

306
00:18:31,528 --> 00:18:33,572
<i>Good play again by Malcolm Butler.</i>

307
00:18:33,572 --> 00:18:37,242
<i>But did Kearse catch it?
He caught it on the carom! Unreal!</i>

308
00:18:38,202 --> 00:18:39,077
<i>Huge play.</i>

309
00:18:39,077 --> 00:18:41,705
<i>They had the rookie Malcolm Butler.</i>

310
00:18:41,705 --> 00:18:44,416
{\an8}You know, in preparing for the game,
I studied everybody.

311
00:18:44,416 --> 00:18:47,044
{\an8}But I didn't spend a ton of time
on Malcolm Butler,

312
00:18:47,044 --> 00:18:48,504
{\an8}because he wasn't going to play very much.

313
00:18:48,504 --> 00:18:50,881
<i>1:06 to play.</i>

314
00:18:50,881 --> 00:18:54,426
After the tip ball,
I come to the sideline.

315
00:18:54,426 --> 00:18:56,803
Nobody really saying anything.

316
00:18:56,803 --> 00:18:58,972
{\an8}But you could feel it.

317
00:18:58,972 --> 00:19:00,557
{\an8}It got...

318
00:19:00,557 --> 00:19:02,601
{\an8}kind of quiet and...

319
00:19:02,601 --> 00:19:04,394
{\an8}it felt like everybody...

320
00:19:05,562 --> 00:19:07,814
...everybody hope was, like, gone.

321
00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:13,779
Last year I worked at Popeyes
in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

322
00:19:14,404 --> 00:19:18,617
As a rookie, my first year in the NFL,
I go to the Super Bowl.

323
00:19:19,493 --> 00:19:23,372
I know I did the best I could do,
but, like, goddamn, I'mma feel, like,

324
00:19:23,372 --> 00:19:25,207
if we lose, it's my fault.

325
00:19:25,207 --> 00:19:26,750
<i>Seattle huddling up,</i>

326
00:19:26,750 --> 00:19:29,336
<i>down 4, but on the verge of the lead.</i>

327
00:19:30,087 --> 00:19:32,422
<i>With 33 seconds and counting.</i>

328
00:19:34,258 --> 00:19:36,885
I'm thinking
I'm not gonna get another opportunity

329
00:19:36,885 --> 00:19:38,136
to go back in the game.

330
00:19:38,136 --> 00:19:42,850
But all of a sudden, they say,
"Goal line 3 corner."

331
00:19:42,850 --> 00:19:45,769
And it was, like, "Malc. Malcolm, go."

332
00:19:45,769 --> 00:19:47,771
Three corners, three!

333
00:19:48,105 --> 00:19:49,690
Malcolm, go!

334
00:19:49,690 --> 00:19:51,316
<i>Second and goal.</i>

335
00:19:51,316 --> 00:19:53,652
<i>Play clock at 5.</i>

336
00:19:54,611 --> 00:19:57,489
I was looking at Russ. I was like...

337
00:19:58,824 --> 00:20:00,659
"He's looking over here too much.

338
00:20:02,411 --> 00:20:04,288
He's looking too much."

339
00:20:08,834 --> 00:20:10,544
<i>Wilson, quick throw.</i>

340
00:20:13,297 --> 00:20:14,423
- <i>And it's...</i>
- <i>It's good!</i>

341
00:20:14,423 --> 00:20:17,551
<i>Intercepted!
Intercepted by Malcolm Butler!</i>

342
00:20:17,551 --> 00:20:20,679
<i>Malcolm Butler
stepped in front of the throw!</i>

343
00:20:20,679 --> 00:20:22,222
<i>No way!</i>

344
00:20:25,976 --> 00:20:29,062
{\an8}I lost my mind. I mean, I was
jumping all six inches I can jump.

345
00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:37,779
<i>Malcolm Butler, unreal!</i>

346
00:20:38,530 --> 00:20:42,201
<i>The New England Patriots
are the NFL champions.</i>

347
00:20:42,201 --> 00:20:45,454
<i>Butler, this kid is a Super Bowl hero.</i>

348
00:20:47,039 --> 00:20:48,749
I started crying.

349
00:20:51,418 --> 00:20:54,046
It was meant to be. It was meant to be.

350
00:20:55,547 --> 00:20:58,509
We have to say hi to my guys.
Wanna say hi to my guys.

351
00:20:58,509 --> 00:21:01,136
We had gone ten years
before winning the Super Bowl.

352
00:21:01,136 --> 00:21:04,389
We lost two in between. Without him, man,
we don't win that Super Bowl.

353
00:21:04,389 --> 00:21:08,268
Malcolm! Are you fucking kidding me?

354
00:21:08,268 --> 00:21:10,229
What a fucking play!

355
00:21:10,979 --> 00:21:12,898
- You're unbelievable, man.
- Thank you.

356
00:21:12,898 --> 00:21:14,024
Way to go!

357
00:21:14,024 --> 00:21:16,443
That was, in my view,
one of the greatest plays

358
00:21:16,443 --> 00:21:19,488
in the history of any Super Bowl.
It was so spectacular.

359
00:21:19,488 --> 00:21:22,449
I think that's
one of the best things I heard in my life,

360
00:21:22,449 --> 00:21:24,201
Tom Brady telling me that.

361
00:21:25,494 --> 00:21:28,914
This is our fourth
Super Bowl championship

362
00:21:28,914 --> 00:21:31,041
in the last 14 years.

363
00:21:31,041 --> 00:21:32,376
Yeah, baby!

364
00:21:32,376 --> 00:21:37,339
Tonight, once again,
the Patriots are world champions.

365
00:21:39,591 --> 00:21:41,385
<i>The New England Patriots...</i>

366
00:21:42,261 --> 00:21:43,762
<i>...are the NFL champions.</i>

367
00:21:50,102 --> 00:21:52,646
<i>Obviously,
in the aftermath of Deflategate,</i>

368
00:21:52,646 --> 00:21:56,608
<i>now comes the parsing of a very
complicated legacy for New England.</i>

369
00:21:56,608 --> 00:21:58,944
<i>Instead of
talking about the Super Bowl,</i>

370
00:21:58,944 --> 00:22:01,405
<i>all eyes are on Deflategate.</i>

371
00:22:01,405 --> 00:22:04,491
Tom Brady won his fourth championship

372
00:22:04,491 --> 00:22:07,619
despite the fact
that the league had checked the footballs.

373
00:22:08,453 --> 00:22:13,458
To me, everything was validated by Brady
with that one Super Bowl win.

374
00:22:13,458 --> 00:22:15,419
Brady! Brady!

375
00:22:15,419 --> 00:22:17,838
{\an8}But you can't have that forever,

376
00:22:17,838 --> 00:22:21,925
{\an8}especially when the NFL's
wheels of justice are still churning.

377
00:22:29,725 --> 00:22:33,478
<i>Breaking right now,
the Deflategate report released.</i>

378
00:22:33,478 --> 00:22:35,272
{\an8}The NFL has just released this.

379
00:22:35,272 --> 00:22:39,860
So, here's your lengthy Wells report,
243 pages in all.

380
00:22:39,860 --> 00:22:44,072
<i>The much anticipated report
finding it's more probable than not</i>

381
00:22:44,072 --> 00:22:46,241
<i>that New England Patriots' staffers</i>

382
00:22:46,241 --> 00:22:49,620
<i>took air out of footballs
in the AFC championship game,</i>

383
00:22:49,620 --> 00:22:53,248
<i>and that Tom Brady
knew something about the practice.</i>

384
00:22:53,248 --> 00:22:55,167
Tom Brady was, and this is a quote,

385
00:22:55,167 --> 00:22:59,296
"At least generally aware
of the deflated balls."

386
00:22:59,296 --> 00:23:01,757
So, when the Wells
report is released,

387
00:23:01,757 --> 00:23:05,969
it's hard to not conclude that there was
a high interest on Brady's part

388
00:23:05,969 --> 00:23:09,389
to make sure the balls...
were soft enough.

389
00:23:10,682 --> 00:23:13,018
Really, the first thing
the Wells report did

390
00:23:13,018 --> 00:23:15,729
was prove the Patriots' ball boy
had an opportunity

391
00:23:15,729 --> 00:23:17,773
to take air pressure out of the balls.

392
00:23:18,524 --> 00:23:21,944
The investigation said that they had
surveillance tape from within the stadium

393
00:23:21,944 --> 00:23:23,028
that showed that.

394
00:23:23,028 --> 00:23:25,572
Video evidence
being examined by the league,

395
00:23:25,572 --> 00:23:28,158
and a so-called
"person of interest" identified

396
00:23:28,158 --> 00:23:31,119
who took the footballs in question
behind closed doors.

397
00:23:31,578 --> 00:23:33,914
<i>The Deflategate investigation
is now centered</i>

398
00:23:33,914 --> 00:23:35,624
<i>on a 90-second bathroom break</i>

399
00:23:35,624 --> 00:23:37,793
<i>taken by a Patriots
locker room attendant</i>

400
00:23:37,793 --> 00:23:39,795
<i>before the AFC championship game.</i>

401
00:23:41,672 --> 00:23:45,217
The tape showed the ball boy
carrying the footballs into the bathroom.

402
00:23:46,218 --> 00:23:50,138
The fact that he made that stop
creates a level of suspicion.

403
00:23:51,265 --> 00:23:53,350
Well, why didn't he just
leave the balls outside?

404
00:23:53,350 --> 00:23:55,185
What did he do for 90 seconds?

405
00:23:55,185 --> 00:23:57,104
Is he emptying his bladder?

406
00:23:58,021 --> 00:24:00,023
Is he emptying
the bladders of the footballs?

407
00:24:01,525 --> 00:24:05,320
The Wells report alleged that
in that period of time

408
00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:08,949
he more probably than not
removed air from the footballs.

409
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:14,454
Contributing to the circumstantial
evidence of that perhaps happening

410
00:24:14,454 --> 00:24:15,664
were the texts.

411
00:24:15,664 --> 00:24:18,500
Text messages between
the Patriots' locker room attendant

412
00:24:18,500 --> 00:24:21,044
and the equipment assistant
seem to implicate Brady.

413
00:24:21,044 --> 00:24:22,754
<i>A lot of shady stuff going on.</i>

414
00:24:22,754 --> 00:24:25,382
<i>Text messages back and forth
about using the needle.</i>

415
00:24:25,382 --> 00:24:27,634
They had text messages,
they had phone records.

416
00:24:27,634 --> 00:24:33,432
They found that the equipment assistant
was joking about being "the deflator."

417
00:24:33,432 --> 00:24:35,767
I find a guy who's called the deflator

418
00:24:35,767 --> 00:24:37,561
deflating footballs...

419
00:24:38,937 --> 00:24:40,147
...plausible.

420
00:24:40,147 --> 00:24:43,233
It is not hard and fast evidence,

421
00:24:43,233 --> 00:24:47,070
but it is a very damning
circumstantial case.

422
00:24:47,070 --> 00:24:48,864
But that's the thing
about the Wells report.

423
00:24:48,864 --> 00:24:53,702
Everything is inferred. There's nothing
conclusive that really nails him.

424
00:24:55,537 --> 00:24:57,915
Ted Wells
needed something that hung Brady...

425
00:24:59,458 --> 00:25:02,836
...that said the ball boys
were not working on their own

426
00:25:02,836 --> 00:25:04,838
and just randomly deflating footballs.

427
00:25:04,838 --> 00:25:07,090
Can we find something
where Tom tells them to do this?

428
00:25:08,509 --> 00:25:13,639
So, the investigation was dying
to get its hands on Tom Brady's phone.

429
00:25:13,639 --> 00:25:17,100
Big new developments tonight
in the Deflategate cheating scandal,

430
00:25:17,100 --> 00:25:20,562
as the league reveals
Brady had his cell phone destroyed

431
00:25:20,562 --> 00:25:22,689
right as investigators wanted to see it.

432
00:25:22,689 --> 00:25:25,609
{\an8}He said that was something
that he just did ordinarily.

433
00:25:25,609 --> 00:25:27,986
{\an8}Every so often,
he would get a new cell phone,

434
00:25:27,986 --> 00:25:30,197
and he'd tell his assistant to destroy it

435
00:25:30,197 --> 00:25:33,408
so nobody could extract information
or use it.

436
00:25:33,408 --> 00:25:35,369
Brady had destroyed his phone.

437
00:25:35,369 --> 00:25:37,579
And that touched off a shitstorm.

438
00:25:39,498 --> 00:25:41,583
{\an8}<i>Now, critics
are imagining the moment</i>

439
00:25:41,583 --> 00:25:44,878
{\an8}<i>when the NFL
asked to see Tom Brady's phone.</i>

440
00:25:45,838 --> 00:25:47,464
{\an8}Any reasonable person

441
00:25:47,464 --> 00:25:50,717
{\an8}would read this and say,
"They did cheat, they did lie."

442
00:25:50,717 --> 00:25:52,678
{\an8}- May have been caught cheating...
- Cheating.

443
00:25:52,678 --> 00:25:53,804
{\an8}It would be cheating.

444
00:25:53,804 --> 00:25:55,472
{\an8}He **** knew!

445
00:25:56,974 --> 00:25:59,643
{\an8}He knew
that the balls were being deflated.

446
00:25:59,643 --> 00:26:02,020
{\an8}You cheating ****.

447
00:26:02,688 --> 00:26:03,689
{\an8}Everyone was saying,

448
00:26:03,689 --> 00:26:07,609
{\an8}"You're cheaters. You have been.
You have been for a long time,

449
00:26:07,609 --> 00:26:10,195
{\an8}and here you are at it again.
We're sick of it."

450
00:26:18,453 --> 00:26:21,373
<i>Major news.
The NFL, we are now told,</i>

451
00:26:21,373 --> 00:26:26,170
<i>has suspended Patriots quarterback
Tom Brady for four games without pay.</i>

452
00:26:26,170 --> 00:26:29,423
<i>For the first four games
of the next season.</i>

453
00:26:29,423 --> 00:26:31,049
{\an8}They're really taking

454
00:26:31,049 --> 00:26:34,887
{\an8}their most high-profile
star player out to the woodshed.

455
00:26:34,887 --> 00:26:38,307
{\an8}I have great admiration
and respect for Tom Brady,

456
00:26:38,307 --> 00:26:41,685
{\an8}but the rules have to be enforced

457
00:26:41,685 --> 00:26:44,563
and they apply to everybody, like...

458
00:26:44,563 --> 00:26:47,774
Anytime there's a violation of rules,

459
00:26:47,774 --> 00:26:51,653
{\an8}my job is to approach these things
without emotion

460
00:26:51,653 --> 00:26:53,572
{\an8}and without a view

461
00:26:53,572 --> 00:26:56,867
{\an8}of anything other than
what truly transpired here,

462
00:26:56,867 --> 00:26:58,410
and deal with it.

463
00:26:59,161 --> 00:27:01,163
But on the outside world, it became...

464
00:27:01,163 --> 00:27:02,748
But I'm not living on the outside world.

465
00:27:02,748 --> 00:27:05,292
What I'm living on
is what we have to do as a league

466
00:27:05,292 --> 00:27:06,877
to deal with this appropriately.

467
00:27:07,753 --> 00:27:08,754
<i>This is huge.</i>

468
00:27:08,754 --> 00:27:11,632
<i>There had been speculation
that maybe Roger Goodell's relationship</i>

469
00:27:11,632 --> 00:27:15,469
<i>with Robert Kraft might have him
go easy on the Patriots,</i>

470
00:27:15,469 --> 00:27:18,972
<i>but it doesn't appear
that that has been the case here.</i>

471
00:27:18,972 --> 00:27:22,684
<i>This is certainly on the tougher side
of any potential punishment that...</i>

472
00:27:22,684 --> 00:27:26,647
Once the NFL came out
with their very harsh ruling,

473
00:27:26,647 --> 00:27:30,901
I realized
the league was not our ally here.

474
00:27:32,277 --> 00:27:38,033
Because of the solid relationship
I had with Commissioner Goodell,

475
00:27:38,033 --> 00:27:41,119
{\an8}he probably had to go overboard

476
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:47,626
to make sure no one could ever accuse him
of equivocating or being soft.

477
00:27:49,336 --> 00:27:52,464
{\an8}This is a statement made
against the owner, Robert Kraft.

478
00:27:52,464 --> 00:27:56,176
Goodell is saying, "Everybody thinks
I'm buddy-buddy with Bob Kraft.

479
00:27:56,176 --> 00:27:57,761
Well, watch this!"

480
00:27:57,761 --> 00:28:00,514
Roger Goodell
is probably saying, "Thank God,

481
00:28:00,514 --> 00:28:04,560
I get to show I'm tough.
I get to be the iron fist."

482
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:07,104
The Commissioner
of the NFL, Roger Goodell,

483
00:28:07,104 --> 00:28:09,273
{\an8}works for the owners.

484
00:28:09,273 --> 00:28:10,899
{\an8}Yes, that includes Robert Kraft,

485
00:28:10,899 --> 00:28:14,278
but it includes quite a few others
who were decidedly unhappy

486
00:28:14,278 --> 00:28:17,322
with how Roger Goodell
had handled Spygate.

487
00:28:19,032 --> 00:28:21,743
There was a lot of anger and resentment

488
00:28:21,743 --> 00:28:26,039
from the other owners
who were chirping in Goodell's ear,

489
00:28:26,039 --> 00:28:27,332
"You got to do something.

490
00:28:27,332 --> 00:28:30,711
They got away with Spygate.
Gonna let them get away with this too?"

491
00:28:31,837 --> 00:28:35,174
This time,
instead of going easy, they're going hard.

492
00:28:35,174 --> 00:28:40,220
And it just became, in my opinion,
a witch hunt. It was a witch hunt.

493
00:28:40,220 --> 00:28:43,599
And Tom Brady was the witch
that was getting hung at Salem.

494
00:28:48,145 --> 00:28:50,647
When we decided
to do this four months ago,

495
00:28:50,647 --> 00:28:53,358
there was a little bit of
a different circumstance.

496
00:28:53,358 --> 00:28:55,861
However, there is an elephant in the room.

497
00:28:55,861 --> 00:28:56,987
Where?

498
00:28:59,406 --> 00:29:01,283
You may be the only one
who doesn't see it.

499
00:29:04,286 --> 00:29:09,666
So, Tom, you're in the news here, and
the Ted Wells report was just released.

500
00:29:17,007 --> 00:29:19,760
Is the Super Bowl tainted?
Should there be an asterisk?

501
00:29:20,344 --> 00:29:21,762
What do you guys think?

502
00:29:24,389 --> 00:29:25,766
Neither do I.

503
00:29:25,766 --> 00:29:28,268
By the time
the Wells report rolled around,

504
00:29:28,268 --> 00:29:31,438
New Englanders had basically
been sharpening their knives,

505
00:29:31,438 --> 00:29:35,400
and taking to the streets
and losing their minds over Deflategate.

506
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:37,903
MVP! MVP!

507
00:29:37,903 --> 00:29:41,532
Tom, it looks like you've picked
a pretty friendly place to reappear.

508
00:29:43,867 --> 00:29:47,454
Thank you, guys, for being here.
Thank you very much.

509
00:29:48,121 --> 00:29:52,543
Patriots fans had galvanized
and came to Tom's defense.

510
00:29:53,544 --> 00:29:59,007
{\an8}Deflategate is the ultimate
bullshit fucking outrage of sports ever.

511
00:29:59,007 --> 00:30:01,593
What they did was suspend Tom Brady
for four days

512
00:30:01,593 --> 00:30:03,804
for not giving them
his fucking cell phone.

513
00:30:03,804 --> 00:30:06,598
And for having a friend
who called himself the Deflator.

514
00:30:06,598 --> 00:30:09,935
If I got in trouble for all the things
that my friends called themselves,

515
00:30:09,935 --> 00:30:11,728
I would be finished.

516
00:30:11,728 --> 00:30:16,900
I would never give an organization
as leak-prone as the NFL

517
00:30:16,900 --> 00:30:20,529
my fucking cell phone
so you could just look through my emails.

518
00:30:20,529 --> 00:30:22,155
Ben Affleck. Did you see that?

519
00:30:22,155 --> 00:30:24,533
Yeah, I did. He got...
he got a little animated.

520
00:30:24,533 --> 00:30:26,702
{\an8}- Look, Boston fans...
- A little animated, yeah!

521
00:30:26,702 --> 00:30:29,621
{\an8}We're a little crazy.
And we take this stuff very seriously.

522
00:30:29,621 --> 00:30:32,207
<i>You weasels in the media</i>

523
00:30:32,207 --> 00:30:35,002
<i>couldn't handle
that he had movie-star good looks,</i>

524
00:30:35,002 --> 00:30:37,087
<i>he had a supermodel girlfriend.</i>

525
00:30:37,087 --> 00:30:40,424
<i>And what it did was reminded
all you out-of-shape sportswriters</i>

526
00:30:40,424 --> 00:30:43,468
<i>how many times
you didn't get picked in gym class,</i>

527
00:30:43,468 --> 00:30:45,012
<i>and you went after him.</i>

528
00:30:45,012 --> 00:30:47,723
{\an8}All these fans couldn't admit the fact
you couldn't beat us.

529
00:30:47,723 --> 00:30:50,058
They became
a bunch of little girls crying,

530
00:30:52,102 --> 00:30:54,813
"The football
weighed a little bit less." Right?

531
00:30:54,813 --> 00:30:56,315
Get the fuck outta here.

532
00:30:56,315 --> 00:30:58,358
Free Tom Brady!

533
00:31:00,194 --> 00:31:01,486
The Patriots and their fans

534
00:31:01,486 --> 00:31:03,530
wanted to yell
to anybody who would listen,

535
00:31:03,530 --> 00:31:06,158
"Hey. No, the story's not how it looks."

536
00:31:06,158 --> 00:31:09,912
{\an8}The proof is right here.
Tom Brady is not a cheater.

537
00:31:09,912 --> 00:31:12,539
He wanted to prove that the weather
had something to do with

538
00:31:12,539 --> 00:31:14,499
the pressure of the ball
and not Tom Brady.

539
00:31:14,499 --> 00:31:17,586
Some fans,
they were talking about science

540
00:31:17,586 --> 00:31:19,588
{\an8}and the Ideal Gas Law.

541
00:31:19,588 --> 00:31:21,215
{\an8}It's just basic laws of physics.

542
00:31:21,215 --> 00:31:23,300
{\an8}This is what happens to footballs
in cold weather.

543
00:31:23,300 --> 00:31:26,637
And others pointed out
there'd been bad reporting.

544
00:31:26,637 --> 00:31:28,347
{\an8}<i>Mortensen falsely reported</i>

545
00:31:28,347 --> 00:31:30,641
{\an8}<i>that 11 of the New England Patriots'
12 game balls</i>

546
00:31:30,641 --> 00:31:32,309
{\an8}<i>were two pounds underweight,</i>

547
00:31:32,309 --> 00:31:35,312
{\an8}<i>a story that pretty much
burst Deflategate.</i>

548
00:31:35,312 --> 00:31:38,190
{\an8}Others were saying,
"Everybody's doing it."

549
00:31:38,190 --> 00:31:41,193
We do know that doctoring the football
is a common practice.

550
00:31:41,193 --> 00:31:42,819
I went back and did a story

551
00:31:42,819 --> 00:31:47,115
on all the things quarterbacks did
to the footballs before games.

552
00:31:47,115 --> 00:31:49,535
People would put them
through the washing machine.

553
00:31:49,535 --> 00:31:52,621
All these things more egregious than PSI.

554
00:31:53,539 --> 00:31:55,499
Did Tom Brady deflate footballs?

555
00:31:55,499 --> 00:31:58,043
He probably did,
but what are we talking about here?

556
00:31:58,043 --> 00:32:01,338
It just makes me... All these years later,
I just still can't believe it.

557
00:32:02,089 --> 00:32:05,384
Free Tom Brady!

558
00:32:05,384 --> 00:32:06,760
Roger sucks!

559
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:08,595
It's just frustrating
to sit as a fan,

560
00:32:08,595 --> 00:32:12,432
{\an8}and watch these morons in the front office
get away with this type of crime.

561
00:32:12,432 --> 00:32:13,517
Free Tom Brady!

562
00:32:13,517 --> 00:32:18,397
Once Brady was suspended,
Patriot fans, we were furious.

563
00:32:19,356 --> 00:32:20,649
{\an8}Myself, we're a Boston company,

564
00:32:20,649 --> 00:32:23,610
{\an8}a bunch of our employees were like,
"What are we gonna do?

565
00:32:23,610 --> 00:32:25,237
We're not taking this laying down.

566
00:32:25,237 --> 00:32:27,739
We want to fight this,
basically, to the death."

567
00:32:28,782 --> 00:32:30,617
Today is May 12th.

568
00:32:30,617 --> 00:32:34,746
Getting ready to do a sit-in
in the Commissioner's office.

569
00:32:35,455 --> 00:32:39,501
{\an8}We are gonna walk in and say,
"We'd like to meet with Roger Goodell."

570
00:32:39,501 --> 00:32:42,796
{\an8}I assume
they aren't gonna grant that meeting.

571
00:32:42,796 --> 00:32:47,050
{\an8}And then we're just gonna fall down
onto the ground handcuffed to each other.

572
00:32:47,050 --> 00:32:49,178
{\an8}Something that people gotta understand
about Barstool

573
00:32:49,178 --> 00:32:53,140
is we're not the most thought-out
organization of all time.

574
00:32:53,140 --> 00:32:55,142
It's like,
"Hey, let's go to NFL headquarters."

575
00:32:55,142 --> 00:32:57,477
Like, "Everyone go home,
get your shit, and we're going."

576
00:32:57,477 --> 00:33:01,523
Free Brady, fire Goodell!

577
00:33:01,523 --> 00:33:04,401
We did that little circle march
that you see

578
00:33:04,401 --> 00:33:08,405
when someone's picketing, and then we just
walked right into NFL headquarters,

579
00:33:08,405 --> 00:33:11,658
we talked to the secretary, she's like,
"Do you have an appointment?"

580
00:33:11,658 --> 00:33:13,785
We could tell
we were not getting up there,

581
00:33:13,785 --> 00:33:17,581
and we handcuffed ourselves to each other,
demanding to speak to the Commissioner.

582
00:33:17,581 --> 00:33:20,834
Give us five questions to Roger
and we'll leave.

583
00:33:20,834 --> 00:33:23,378
Why did you lie?
Why do you hate Tom Brady?

584
00:33:23,378 --> 00:33:25,464
How can you convict somebody
without proof?

585
00:33:25,464 --> 00:33:27,799
You guys wanna get arrested, right?

586
00:33:27,799 --> 00:33:29,468
No, we wanna
meet with Roger Goodell.

587
00:33:29,468 --> 00:33:31,428
OK, so you're going to wind up
getting arrested.

588
00:33:31,428 --> 00:33:33,305
I mean, I've got the cops coming over now.

589
00:33:33,305 --> 00:33:37,392
The police showed up
and we got taken to jail.

590
00:33:37,392 --> 00:33:38,727
Free David Portnoy!

591
00:33:38,727 --> 00:33:42,189
Hate us 'cause they ain't us!

592
00:33:43,607 --> 00:33:46,652
If you look back at it,
for such a stupid thing,

593
00:33:46,652 --> 00:33:50,113
it was crazy. It was crazy.
For a long time, it was crazy.

594
00:33:50,113 --> 00:33:52,157
The potential cheating scandal

595
00:33:52,157 --> 00:33:54,493
involving one of the great teams
and great quarterbacks

596
00:33:54,493 --> 00:33:55,744
in the history of the game

597
00:33:55,744 --> 00:33:58,664
continues to consume a colossal amount
of time and attention.

598
00:33:58,664 --> 00:34:00,082
{\an8}<i>The Deflategate scandal</i>

599
00:34:00,082 --> 00:34:02,459
{\an8}<i>has moved from the football field
to the courtroom.</i>

600
00:34:02,459 --> 00:34:04,837
{\an8}<i>Brady is appealing
his four-game suspension.</i>

601
00:34:04,837 --> 00:34:06,797
{\an8}<i>I've gotta talk about the court sketches.</i>

602
00:34:06,797 --> 00:34:11,426
{\an8}Here's the thing, Tom Brady
is a really, really handsome man.

603
00:34:11,426 --> 00:34:12,886
{\an8}But this?

604
00:34:12,886 --> 00:34:15,472
{\an8}Do you think it should be a huge story?

605
00:34:15,472 --> 00:34:17,975
Well, let's see.
The government of Yemen has collapsed.

606
00:34:17,975 --> 00:34:20,101
You have terror cells in France.

607
00:34:20,101 --> 00:34:25,940
And all three network news broadcasts
tonight were led with Deflategate.

608
00:34:25,940 --> 00:34:27,442
Oh, my goodness, yeah!

609
00:34:27,442 --> 00:34:30,904
{\an8}This is a story
that should have been a speck.

610
00:34:31,530 --> 00:34:32,781
{\an8}But it's the Patriots.

611
00:34:32,781 --> 00:34:35,659
It's the biggest story in town.

612
00:34:35,659 --> 00:34:38,245
It's our top story.
It's the ongoing Deflategate scandal.

613
00:34:38,245 --> 00:34:43,625
In other news, the fate of two Japanese
men held hostage by ISIS is uncertain.

614
00:34:43,625 --> 00:34:45,710
I mean, it was insane.

615
00:34:46,879 --> 00:34:49,840
But you look at the ratings, it's so big

616
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:53,092
that it just builds on itself
over and over and over and over.

617
00:34:53,092 --> 00:34:55,012
Boston wins because they cheat.

618
00:34:55,012 --> 00:34:58,056
{\an8}You know, for three games,
Boston used a volleyball painted brown?

619
00:34:58,056 --> 00:35:00,767
{\an8}There's only one thing you can deflate.

620
00:35:00,767 --> 00:35:02,644
{\an8}These nuts!

621
00:35:05,439 --> 00:35:08,025
The NFL, the media,

622
00:35:08,025 --> 00:35:10,068
fans across the world,

623
00:35:10,068 --> 00:35:13,739
we all took this nothing event

624
00:35:13,739 --> 00:35:18,285
and turned it into
one of the most ridiculous controversies

625
00:35:18,285 --> 00:35:20,370
I can ever remember in my lifetime.

626
00:35:26,126 --> 00:35:27,836
<i>This scandal over footballs</i>

627
00:35:27,836 --> 00:35:30,047
<i>in professional football will not go away.</i>

628
00:35:31,381 --> 00:35:35,427
<i>The NFL's Deflategate
scandal appears headed to federal court.</i>

629
00:35:36,720 --> 00:35:39,973
{\an8}It was like
the crime of the century had occurred

630
00:35:39,973 --> 00:35:42,351
for the NFL's lawyers.

631
00:35:43,685 --> 00:35:47,523
For whatever reason,
they chose to drag out everything

632
00:35:47,523 --> 00:35:49,816
and create a huge distraction.

633
00:35:50,484 --> 00:35:52,569
I think it hurt the NFL.

634
00:35:52,569 --> 00:35:54,071
It didn't help it.

635
00:35:55,030 --> 00:35:58,033
I remember
watching this and wondering,

636
00:35:58,033 --> 00:36:02,454
"Why are you spending so much time
and so much money on this?"

637
00:36:03,455 --> 00:36:07,000
{\an8}And I think that at that same time...

638
00:36:07,709 --> 00:36:10,921
{\an8}...the NFL's got these
domestic violence issues.

639
00:36:11,630 --> 00:36:13,507
The NFL has got labor issues.

640
00:36:14,967 --> 00:36:19,388
And those things got pushed to the side
to concentrate on this,

641
00:36:19,388 --> 00:36:22,558
because it was the Patriots.

642
00:36:27,479 --> 00:36:29,481
<i>The big news
coming out from the NFL,</i>

643
00:36:29,481 --> 00:36:33,110
<i>NFL commissioner Roger Goodell
is upholding the four-game suspension</i>

644
00:36:33,110 --> 00:36:35,404
<i>against New England's QB
Tom Brady,</i>

645
00:36:35,404 --> 00:36:37,656
<i>by many accounts,
the face of the NFL right now,</i>

646
00:36:37,656 --> 00:36:39,867
<i>one of the most popular
quarterbacks out there.</i>

647
00:36:41,660 --> 00:36:44,538
I felt it was important
to make a statement today

648
00:36:44,538 --> 00:36:46,748
prior to the start of training camp.

649
00:36:46,748 --> 00:36:50,586
I had hopes that Tom Brady's appeal
to the league

650
00:36:50,586 --> 00:36:54,923
would provide Roger Goodell
the necessary explanation

651
00:36:54,923 --> 00:36:57,593
to overturn his suspension.

652
00:36:58,135 --> 00:37:01,805
I was wrong to put my faith in the league.

653
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:07,436
When we have a fight, we like to win,

654
00:37:07,436 --> 00:37:09,354
and win every battle.

655
00:37:10,898 --> 00:37:15,694
But, in the end, you know,
Goodell has the ultimate authority.

656
00:37:16,695 --> 00:37:18,989
We weren't gonna win the battle.

657
00:37:18,989 --> 00:37:21,575
And I wanted to get it over.

658
00:37:22,159 --> 00:37:26,163
After this,
I will not be talking about this matter,

659
00:37:26,163 --> 00:37:30,918
and I would advise everyone
in the organization to do the same.

660
00:37:31,877 --> 00:37:34,838
Okay, so, Tom,
sitting here today,

661
00:37:34,838 --> 00:37:38,842
would you like to respond to any
of the allegations from the Wells report,

662
00:37:38,842 --> 00:37:41,303
and the months-long NFL investigation?

663
00:37:42,513 --> 00:37:43,514
No.

664
00:37:45,933 --> 00:37:49,603
You know, obviously, I have
a lot of personal feelings and...

665
00:37:49,603 --> 00:37:52,105
But I really don't care
to share many of those.

666
00:37:52,105 --> 00:37:55,526
I really care to think about
what I need to do going forward.

667
00:37:55,526 --> 00:37:57,277
Thanks, guys. Nice to see you.

668
00:37:57,277 --> 00:38:00,364
I mean, look,
I saw, like, venom from people

669
00:38:00,364 --> 00:38:03,951
that was so far beyond comprehension.

670
00:38:03,951 --> 00:38:07,120
But it was more than about
under-inflated footballs in the end.

671
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:09,164
Now it's probably football lore.

672
00:38:10,374 --> 00:38:12,584
But at that time, it was exhausting.

673
00:38:14,211 --> 00:38:17,172
And at some point,
you just drop the rope and you go,

674
00:38:17,172 --> 00:38:19,633
"Okay, like, that's enough," you know?

675
00:38:20,926 --> 00:38:25,097
<i>Brady will not play the first
four games of the 2016 season. He's out.</i>

676
00:38:31,395 --> 00:38:34,690
Obviously, Tom,
it took a massive toll on him.

677
00:38:34,690 --> 00:38:38,402
{\an8}All Tom wanted to do is be a
good teammate and be out on that field.

678
00:38:39,069 --> 00:38:41,321
But after the training camp,

679
00:38:41,321 --> 00:38:43,448
he was gonna miss four games,

680
00:38:43,448 --> 00:38:46,076
and he was pissed.

681
00:38:46,076 --> 00:38:47,244
Hike!

682
00:38:48,662 --> 00:38:50,539
He was fucking angry.

683
00:38:50,539 --> 00:38:51,748
No!

684
00:38:51,748 --> 00:38:54,418
You know,
there was definitely the feeling like,

685
00:38:54,418 --> 00:38:58,005
when he gets back after his suspension,

686
00:38:58,005 --> 00:39:00,966
he's gonna rain vengeance upon thee...

687
00:39:03,468 --> 00:39:05,804
Hey, go whoop their ass.

688
00:39:05,804 --> 00:39:09,558
<i>Tom Brady, he's going to
come back and play possessed.</i>

689
00:39:10,309 --> 00:39:12,269
<i>We have a reason to be scared.</i>

690
00:39:12,269 --> 00:39:16,106
<i>A lot of teams,
if not every team, is simply saying...</i>