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{\an8}[Rupert Murdoch] 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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[announcer] The New England Patriots,
solidifying their team as an NFL dynasty.
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[Murdoch] He's known
for his leadership of the Patriots,
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and of the NFL.
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[flashbulb pops]
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And, I think, admired everywhere.
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[jet engine roars]
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[Robert Kraft] 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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[Murdoch] 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.
[chuckles]
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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 New York Post.
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[Kraft] 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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[song continues]
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- [announcer] Tom Brady...
- [announcer 2] Tom Brady...
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[announcer 3] He's the best of all time.
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[announcer 4] Oh, caught. Touchdown!
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[analyst] Right now, the best team
in the National Football League.
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[hip-hop music playing]
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[announcer 5] Perfection personified
by the Patriots.
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- [Tedy Bruschi] NFL history!
- [players] Oh, yeah!
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[analyst] What these guys have
accomplished together is unbelievable.
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{\an8}[Murdoch] 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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[Kraft] 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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["All Eyez on Me" by 2Pac playing]
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{\an8}[announcer] Tom Brady,
the guy with the perfect life,
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with the perfect wife
that you could root against.
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[Kraft] When you become number one,
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people are going to come after you
every way they can.
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[song continues]
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[crowd chanting] Brady, Brady, Brady.
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[song ends, echoing]
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[cheering]
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[announcer] Playing for the AFC
Championship here in New England,
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as the Colts take on the Patriots.
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[fireworks pop]
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And the winner to advance
to Phoenix and Super Bowl 49
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to take on the Seattle Seahawks.
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Brady hands it to Blount...
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And he's got the touchdown.
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- Touchdown, New England.
- [whistle blows]
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And it's 7-0 New England,
not even five minutes into the game.
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The former Patriot Adam Vinatieri
back at New England.
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[Adam Vinatieri] 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
from going to the Super Bowl
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were the New England Patriots.
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[announcer] Develin,
who is able to bounce off the hit.
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Touchdown, New England.
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And it's 14-0 here in the first quarter.
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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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[crowd chanting] Brady, Brady,
Brady, Brady, Brady, Brady, Brady...
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[Tom Curran] 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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[dramatic music]
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[announcer] Intercepted
by D'Qwell Jackson.
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- [players grunt]
- [whistle blows]
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[Curran] 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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[host] It's as predictable
as the sun coming up tomorrow.
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After every big win
by the New England Patriots,
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there are those who accuse Bill Belichick
and his coaching staff
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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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- Deflategate.
- Deflategate.
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Deflategate.
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[tweet alert]
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[Curran] 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}[analyst] The advantage
of playing with an under-inflated ball?
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{\an8}It's easier to grip and catch,
especially in foul weather.
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[reporter] That organization
is willing to do quote unquote,
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"Whatever they need to do
to try and win."
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It's not the first time
they've skirted the rules.
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[Curran] 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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[camera shutters click]
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All right, I'll, uh,
start off by addressing the, uh...
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the football issue here. Um...
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When I came in Monday morning,
uh, I was shocked to...
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learn of the news reports
about the, uh, footballs.
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{\an8}I could tell you
that in my entire coaching career,
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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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[reporters clamor]
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[Michael Holley]
Oh, 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.
- [reporters chatter]
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[Curran] 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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- [reporters clamor]
- [camera shutters click]
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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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[camera shutters click]
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Hi, guys, how you doing?
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{\an8}[reporter] Tom, when and how
did you supposedly alter the balls?
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{\an8}I didn't, you know, have any, uh... 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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[reporter 2] 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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[laughs]
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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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[overlapping questions]
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[Brady] 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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[reporters clamor]
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{\an8}Everybody's bombarding him with questions.
I think it caught him off-guard.
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[reporters clamor]
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[Holley] 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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[reporter] Tom Brady hit the podium
for 31 minutes.
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[reporter 2]
Taking the hits from reporters,
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but insisting he knew
and noticed nothing.
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[Tony Kornheiser] Tom Brady said,
"I didn't alter the ball in any way."
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- Okay, so who did?
- Who did?
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[both] 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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[Curran] 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}[reporter] The NFL has hired Ted Wells,
getting a truly independent person.
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{\an8}Wells is the key here,
because he will get to the bottom of it.
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- [shutter clicks]
- [Curran] 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
leading up to the Super Bowl,
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this pissant little conversation
about deflated footballs
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kind of overshadowed everything.
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[engine roars]
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[reporter] Boy, the New England Patriots
better win this Super Bowl.
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[Michael Wilbon]
If they lose this Super Bowl,
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everybody's going to be talking about,
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"And that's what happens
when you're forced to play fair!"
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The New England Patriots' legacy
is officially on the line.
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[reporter] I think that Tom Brady
has some questions to answer.
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America is looking at him
with a jaundiced eye.
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That "Tommy Perfect" is not perfect.
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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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[Darrelle Revis]
When the Deflategate happened,
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{\an8}and Tom was the headliner of...
of, uh, 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.
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I would not ruin this season for us.
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The allegations are false."
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He was actually
bawling his eyes out in front of us.
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{\an8}Tom can be a very fiery person.
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{\an8}But he can also be a very soft person,
very emotional.
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It took a massive toll on him
because of his kids.
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Just having to listen to his kids
come home from school
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and talk about the things
they heard from their friends
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or their teachers or whoever.
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I felt for him.
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When the shots
are being fired at you, you can handle it.
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When they're being fired at people
you care about, that's when it gets hard.
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[crowd] Cheater! Cheater! Cheater!
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[Nancy Brady] We've been to many games
where people didn't like my brother,
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yelling obscene things,
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{\an8}but this was different, because
they were going after his character.
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They didn't believe him.
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[man] Cheater! You cheat!
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[announcer] The AFC Champion,
the New England Patriots.
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[Tom Brady Sr]
It was extraordinarily difficult
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in the life of the Brady family.
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{\an8}Not only did I suffer from it,
but my wife...
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{\an8}It crushed her.
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Because he's not a liar.
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{\an8}I felt very helpless as a mom.
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{\an8}I mean, usually when your kids are little,
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you can hold them
or you can fix their problems.
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And watching Tommy
having to go through this,
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you know, there's nothing
we could do about it.
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But for Tommy on the football field,
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that's when he could prove to the world
that he was calling the shots.
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[crowd cheers]
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[Brady] All right. Let's go, boys.
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Let's go whoop their ass.
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One. Two. Three. Super Bowl champs.
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[Al Michaels] Brady throws. Caught.
LaFell, touchdown.
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{\an8}We wanted to beat the Seahawks.
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{\an8}They were a little bit cocky, I would say.
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[Michaels] Wilson.
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To Lynch.
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Touchdown!
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{\an8}It was so back and forth of we'd score...
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[Michaels] And Brady's gonna throw
deep down the right side
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for Gronkowski and a touchdown.
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[McCourty] ...they'd score.
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[Michaels] And it's caught! Touchdown.
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That was a clash of the titans.
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[Michaels] Play fake. The lob, wide open.
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Touchdown, Doug Baldwin.
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[Cris Collinsworth] This game
is turning into something here.
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We could be playing football
all night tonight.
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[Michaels] Tom Brady,
he said to us yesterday,
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he said, "There would not be a game
I would want to win more than this one."
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Under five minutes, a three-point game.
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[Brady] Hey, we need
a big fucking championship drive.
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- That's what we need. Ready?
- [players] Break!
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[Brady] Fifty-four. Hike-hike!
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[Michaels] Second and 11.
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Brady, and as he throws,
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caught by Gronkowski.
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Second and goal.
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Hey, 50!
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[Michaels] Tom looks left.
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Throws for Edelman.
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Touchdown, Patriots!
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They're back in the lead!
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{\an8}Touchdown. We're back in the game.
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There's a light at the end of the tunnel.
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[Michaels] And that makes it
a 4-point lead.
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[Josh McDaniels] We're up by 4
in the 4th quarter of a Super Bowl.
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{\an8}You love the part,
6 minutes to go and you have the ball.
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{\an8}You hate the part
with 2 minutes to go and you don't.
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[Michaels] Under a minute
and a half to go.
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[Collinsworth] Good snap
to the quarterback.
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[Michaels] Russell
fires down the right side.
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He's got Kearse,
and the ball is knocked incomplete.
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Good play again by Malcolm Butler.
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But did Kearse catch it?
He caught it on the carom! Unreal!
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[Collinsworth] Huge play.
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They had the rookie Malcolm Butler.
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{\an8}You know, in preparing for the game,
I studied everybody.
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{\an8}But I didn't spend a ton of time
on Malcolm Butler,
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{\an8}because he wasn't going to play very much.
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[Michaels] 1:06 to play.
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[Malcolm Butler] After the tip ball,
I come to the sideline.
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Nobody really saying anything.
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{\an8}But you could feel it.
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{\an8}It got...
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{\an8}kind of quiet and...
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{\an8}it felt like everybody...
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...everybody hope was, like, gone.
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Last year I worked at Popeyes
in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
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As a rookie, my first year in the NFL,
I go to the Super Bowl.
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I know I did the best I could do,
but, like, goddamn, I'mma feel, like,
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if we lose, it's my fault.
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[Collinsworth] Seattle huddling up,
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down 4, but on the verge of the lead.
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With 33 seconds and counting.
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[Butler] I'm thinking
I'm not gonna get another opportunity
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to go back in the game.
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But all of a sudden, they say,
"Goal line 3 corner."
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And it was, like, "Malc. Malcolm, go."
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Three corners, three!
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Malcolm, go!
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[Michaels] Second and goal.
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Play clock at 5.
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[Butler] I was looking at Russ.
I was like...
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"He's looking over here too much.
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He's looking too much."
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[Wilson grunts]
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[Collinsworth] Wilson, quick throw.
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- And it's...
- [Michaels] It's good!
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[Collinsworth] Intercepted!
Intercepted by Malcolm Butler!
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Malcolm Butler
stepped in front of the throw!
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[Michaels] No way!
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[players cheer]
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{\an8}I lost my mind. I mean, I was
jumping all six inches I can jump.
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[screams with delight]
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[screams with delight]
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[Michaels] Malcolm Butler, unreal!
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The New England Patriots
are the NFL champions.
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Butler, this kid is a Super Bowl hero.
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[Butler] I started crying.
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It was meant to be. It was meant to be.
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We have to say hi to my guys.
Wanna say hi to my guys.
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[Brady] We had gone ten years
before winning the Super Bowl.
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We lost two in between. Without him, man,
we don't win that Super Bowl.
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Malcolm! Are you fucking kidding me?
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What a fucking play!
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- You're unbelievable, man.
- Thank you.
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Way to go!
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That was, in my view,
one of the greatest plays
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in the history of any Super Bowl.
It was so spectacular.
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[Butler] I think that's
one of the best things I heard in my life,
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Tom Brady telling me that.
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[Kraft] This is our fourth
Super Bowl championship
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in the last 14 years.
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Yeah, baby!
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Tonight, once again,
the Patriots are world champions.
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[crowd cheers]
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[Michaels] The New England Patriots...
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...are the NFL champions.
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[reporter] Obviously,
in the aftermath of Deflategate,
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now comes the parsing of a very
complicated legacy for New England.
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[reporter 2] Instead of
talking about the Super Bowl,
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all eyes are on Deflategate.
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[Curran] Tom Brady
won his fourth championship
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despite the fact
that the league had checked the footballs.
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To me, everything was validated by Brady
with that one Super Bowl win.
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[fans chanting] Brady! Brady!
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{\an8}But you can't have that forever,
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{\an8}especially when the NFL's
wheels of justice are still churning.
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[horns blare]
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[reporter] Breaking right now,
the Deflategate report released.
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{\an8}The NFL has just released this.
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So, here's your lengthy Wells report,
243 pages in all.
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[reporter 2] The much anticipated report
finding it's more probable than not
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that New England Patriots' staffers
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took air out of footballs
in the AFC championship game,
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and that Tom Brady
knew something about the practice.
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[reporter 3] Tom Brady was,
and this is a quote,
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"At least generally aware
of the deflated balls."
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[Curran] So, when the Wells
report is released,
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it's hard to not conclude that there was
a high interest on Brady's part
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to make sure the balls...
were soft enough.
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00:23:10,682 --> 00:23:13,018
Really, the first thing
the Wells report did
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was prove the Patriots' ball boy
had an opportunity
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to take air pressure out of the balls.
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The investigation said that they had
surveillance tape from within the stadium
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that showed that.
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Video evidence
being examined by the league,
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and a so-called
"person of interest" identified
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who took the footballs in question
behind closed doors.
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[reporter] The Deflategate investigation
is now centered
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on a 90-second bathroom break
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taken by a Patriots
locker room attendant
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before the AFC championship game.
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[Curran] The tape showed the ball boy
carrying the footballs into the bathroom.
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The fact that he made that stop
creates a level of suspicion.
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Well, why didn't he just
leave the balls outside?
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What did he do for 90 seconds?
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Is he emptying his bladder?
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Is he emptying
the bladders of the footballs?
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The Wells report alleged that
in that period of time
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he more probably than not
removed air from the footballs.
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00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:14,454
Contributing to the circumstantial
evidence of that perhaps happening
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were the texts.
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Text messages between
the Patriots' locker room attendant
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and the equipment assistant
seem to implicate Brady.
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00:24:21,044 --> 00:24:22,754
[reporter] A lot of shady stuff going on.
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00:24:22,754 --> 00:24:25,382
Text messages back and forth
about using the needle.
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00:24:25,382 --> 00:24:27,634
They had text messages,
they had phone records.
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They found that the equipment assistant
was joking about being "the deflator."
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I find a guy who's called the deflator
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deflating footballs...
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00:24:38,937 --> 00:24:40,147
...plausible.
448
00:24:40,147 --> 00:24:43,233
It is not hard and fast evidence,
449
00:24:43,233 --> 00:24:47,070
but it is a very damning
circumstantial case.
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00:24:47,070 --> 00:24:48,864
But that's the thing
about the Wells report.
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Everything is inferred. There's nothing
conclusive that really nails him.
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[camera shutter clicks]
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[Curran] Ted Wells
needed something that hung Brady...
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00:24:57,915 --> 00:24:59,374
[shutter clicks]
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...that said the ball boys
were not working on their own
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and just randomly deflating footballs.
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Can we find something
where Tom tells them to do this?
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[shutter clicks]
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[Curran] So, the investigation was dying
to get its hands on Tom Brady's phone.
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Big new developments tonight
in the Deflategate cheating scandal,
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as the league reveals
Brady had his cell phone destroyed
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right as investigators wanted to see it.
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{\an8}He said that was something
that he just did ordinarily.
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{\an8}Every so often,
he would get a new cell phone,
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and he'd tell his assistant to destroy it
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00:25:30,197 --> 00:25:33,408
so nobody could extract information
or use it.
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Brady had destroyed his phone.
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And that touched off a shitstorm.
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{\an8}[reporter] Now, critics
are imagining the moment
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{\an8}when the NFL
asked to see Tom Brady's phone.
471
00:25:45,838 --> 00:25:47,464
{\an8}[reporter 2] Any reasonable person
472
00:25:47,464 --> 00:25:50,717
{\an8}would read this and say,
"They did cheat, they did lie."
473
00:25:50,717 --> 00:25:52,678
{\an8}- May have been caught cheating...
- Cheating.
474
00:25:52,678 --> 00:25:53,804
{\an8}It would be cheating.
475
00:25:53,804 --> 00:25:55,472
{\an8}He **** knew!
476
00:25:55,472 --> 00:25:56,890
{\an8}[audience laughs]
477
00:25:56,890 --> 00:25:59,643
{\an8}He knew
that the balls were being deflated.
478
00:25:59,643 --> 00:26:02,604
{\an8}- You cheating ****.
- [audience laughs]
479
00:26:02,604 --> 00:26:03,689
{\an8}[Holley] Everyone was saying,
480
00:26:03,689 --> 00:26:07,609
{\an8}"You're cheaters. You have been.
You have been for a long time,
481
00:26:07,609 --> 00:26:10,195
{\an8}and here you are at it again.
We're sick of it."
482
00:26:18,453 --> 00:26:21,373
[reporter] Major news.
The NFL, we are now told,
483
00:26:21,373 --> 00:26:26,170
has suspended Patriots quarterback
Tom Brady for four games without pay.
484
00:26:26,170 --> 00:26:29,423
[reporter 2] For the first four games
of the next season.
485
00:26:29,423 --> 00:26:31,049
{\an8}They're really taking
486
00:26:31,049 --> 00:26:34,887
{\an8}their most high-profile
star player out to the woodshed.
487
00:26:34,887 --> 00:26:38,307
{\an8}I have great admiration
and respect for Tom Brady, uh,
488
00:26:38,307 --> 00:26:41,685
{\an8}but the rules have to be enforced
489
00:26:41,685 --> 00:26:44,563
and they apply to everybody, like...
490
00:26:44,563 --> 00:26:47,774
[Goodell] Anytime
there's a violation of rules,
491
00:26:47,774 --> 00:26:51,653
{\an8}my job is to approach these things
without emotion
492
00:26:51,653 --> 00:26:53,572
{\an8}and without a view
493
00:26:53,572 --> 00:26:56,867
{\an8}of anything other than
what truly transpired here,
494
00:26:56,867 --> 00:26:58,410
and deal with it.
495
00:26:59,161 --> 00:27:01,163
[producer] But on the outside world,
it became...
496
00:27:01,163 --> 00:27:02,748
But I'm not living on the outside world.
497
00:27:02,748 --> 00:27:05,292
What I'm living on
is what we have to do as a league
498
00:27:05,292 --> 00:27:06,877
to deal with this appropriately.
499
00:27:07,753 --> 00:27:08,754
[reporter] This is huge.
500
00:27:08,754 --> 00:27:11,632
There had been speculation
that maybe Roger Goodell's relationship
501
00:27:11,632 --> 00:27:15,469
with, uh, Robert Kraft might have him
go easy on the Patriots,
502
00:27:15,469 --> 00:27:18,972
but it doesn't appear
that that has been the case here.
503
00:27:18,972 --> 00:27:22,684
This is certainly on the tougher side
of any potential punishment that...
504
00:27:22,684 --> 00:27:26,647
[Kraft] Once the NFL came out
with their very harsh ruling,
505
00:27:26,647 --> 00:27:30,901
I realized
the league was not our ally here.
506
00:27:32,277 --> 00:27:38,033
Because of the solid relationship
I had with Commissioner Goodell,
507
00:27:38,033 --> 00:27:41,119
{\an8}he probably had to go overboard
508
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:47,626
to make sure no one could ever accuse him
of equivocating or being soft.
509
00:27:49,336 --> 00:27:52,464
{\an8}This is a statement made
against the owner, Robert Kraft.
510
00:27:52,464 --> 00:27:56,176
Goodell is saying, "Everybody thinks
I'm buddy-buddy with Bob Kraft.
511
00:27:56,176 --> 00:27:57,761
Well, watch this!"
512
00:27:57,761 --> 00:28:00,514
Roger Goodell
is probably saying, "Thank God,
513
00:28:00,514 --> 00:28:04,560
I get to show I'm tough.
I get to be the iron fist."
514
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:07,104
[Jackie MacMullan] The Commissioner
of the NFL, Roger Goodell,
515
00:28:07,104 --> 00:28:09,273
{\an8}works for the owners.
516
00:28:09,273 --> 00:28:10,899
{\an8}Yes, that includes Robert Kraft,
517
00:28:10,899 --> 00:28:14,278
but it includes quite a few others
who were decidedly unhappy
518
00:28:14,278 --> 00:28:17,322
with how Roger Goodell
had handled Spygate.
519
00:28:19,032 --> 00:28:21,743
[Holley] There was
a lot of anger and resentment
520
00:28:21,743 --> 00:28:26,039
from the other owners
who were chirping in Goodell's ear,
521
00:28:26,039 --> 00:28:27,332
"You got to do something.
522
00:28:27,332 --> 00:28:30,711
They got away with Spygate.
Gonna let them get away with this too?"
523
00:28:31,837 --> 00:28:35,174
[MacMullan] This time,
instead of going easy, they're going hard.
524
00:28:35,174 --> 00:28:40,220
And it just became, in my opinion,
a witch hunt. It was a witch hunt.
525
00:28:40,220 --> 00:28:43,599
And Tom Brady was the witch
that was getting hung at Salem.
526
00:28:48,145 --> 00:28:50,647
[interviewer] When we decided
to do this four months ago,
527
00:28:50,647 --> 00:28:53,358
there was a little bit of
a different circumstance.
528
00:28:53,358 --> 00:28:55,861
However, there is an elephant in the room.
529
00:28:55,861 --> 00:28:58,071
- Where?
- [laughter]
530
00:28:59,406 --> 00:29:01,283
You may be the only one
who doesn't see it.
531
00:29:01,283 --> 00:29:03,076
[laughter]
532
00:29:04,286 --> 00:29:09,666
So, Tom, you're in the news here, uh, and
the Ted Wells report was just released.
533
00:29:09,666 --> 00:29:13,879
- [audience boos and jeers]
- [Brady laughs]
534
00:29:17,007 --> 00:29:19,760
Is the Super Bowl tainted?
Should there be an asterisk?
535
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:21,762
- [audience jeers]
- What do you guys think?
536
00:29:21,762 --> 00:29:24,306
[audience boos]
537
00:29:24,306 --> 00:29:25,766
Neither do I.
538
00:29:25,766 --> 00:29:28,268
[Curran] By the time
the Wells report rolled around,
539
00:29:28,268 --> 00:29:31,438
New Englanders had basically
been sharpening their knives,
540
00:29:31,438 --> 00:29:35,400
and taking to the streets
and losing their minds over Deflategate.
541
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:37,903
[audience] MVP! MVP!
542
00:29:37,903 --> 00:29:41,532
Tom, it looks like you've picked
a pretty friendly place to reappear.
543
00:29:41,532 --> 00:29:43,784
[audience chants]
544
00:29:43,784 --> 00:29:47,454
Thank you, guys, for being here.
Thank you very much.
545
00:29:48,121 --> 00:29:52,543
[Curran] Patriots fans had galvanized
and came to Tom's defense.
546
00:29:53,544 --> 00:29:59,007
{\an8}Deflategate is the ultimate
bullshit fucking outrage of sports ever.
547
00:29:59,007 --> 00:30:01,593
What they did was suspend Tom Brady
for four days
548
00:30:01,593 --> 00:30:03,804
for not giving them
his fucking cell phone.
549
00:30:03,804 --> 00:30:06,598
And for having a friend
who called himself the Deflator.
550
00:30:06,598 --> 00:30:09,935
If I got in trouble for all the things
that my friends called themselves,
551
00:30:09,935 --> 00:30:11,728
I would be finished.
552
00:30:11,728 --> 00:30:16,900
I would never give an organization
as leak-prone as the NFL
553
00:30:16,900 --> 00:30:20,529
my fucking cell phone
so you could just look through my emails.
554
00:30:20,529 --> 00:30:22,155
Ben Affleck. Did you see that?
555
00:30:22,155 --> 00:30:24,533
Yeah, I did. He got...
he got a little animated.
556
00:30:24,533 --> 00:30:26,702
{\an8}- Look, Boston fans...
- A little animated, yeah!
557
00:30:26,702 --> 00:30:29,621
{\an8}We're a little crazy. And, uh,
we take this stuff very seriously.
558
00:30:29,621 --> 00:30:32,207
[Bill Burr] You weasels in the media
559
00:30:32,207 --> 00:30:35,002
couldn't handle
that he had movie-star good looks,
560
00:30:35,002 --> 00:30:37,087
he had a supermodel girlfriend.
561
00:30:37,087 --> 00:30:40,424
And what it did was reminded
all you out-of-shape sportswriters
562
00:30:40,424 --> 00:30:43,468
how many times
you didn't get picked in gym class,
563
00:30:43,468 --> 00:30:45,012
and you went after him.
564
00:30:45,012 --> 00:30:47,723
{\an8}All these fans couldn't admit the fact
you couldn't beat us.
565
00:30:47,723 --> 00:30:50,058
They became
a bunch of little girls crying,
566
00:30:50,058 --> 00:30:54,813
[he blubs] "The... the... the football
weighed a little bit less." Right?
567
00:30:54,813 --> 00:30:56,315
Get the fuck outta here.
568
00:30:56,315 --> 00:30:58,358
- Free Tom Brady!
- [cheering]
569
00:31:00,194 --> 00:31:01,486
[Holley] The Patriots and their fans
570
00:31:01,486 --> 00:31:03,530
wanted to yell
to anybody who would listen,
571
00:31:03,530 --> 00:31:06,158
"Hey, hey, hey.
No, the story's not how it looks."
572
00:31:06,158 --> 00:31:09,912
{\an8}The proof is right here.
Tom Brady is not a cheater.
573
00:31:09,912 --> 00:31:12,539
He wanted to prove that the weather
had something to do with
574
00:31:12,539 --> 00:31:14,499
the pressure of the ball
and not Tom Brady.
575
00:31:14,499 --> 00:31:17,586
[Holley] Some fans,
they were talking about science
576
00:31:17,586 --> 00:31:19,588
{\an8}and the Ideal Gas Law.
577
00:31:19,588 --> 00:31:21,215
{\an8}[man] It's just basic laws of physics.
578
00:31:21,215 --> 00:31:23,300
{\an8}This is what happens to footballs
in cold weather.
579
00:31:23,300 --> 00:31:26,637
[Holley] And others pointed out
there'd been bad reporting.
580
00:31:26,637 --> 00:31:28,347
{\an8}[reporter] Mortensen falsely reported
581
00:31:28,347 --> 00:31:30,641
{\an8}that 11 of the New England Patriots'
12 game balls
582
00:31:30,641 --> 00:31:32,309
{\an8}were two pounds underweight,
583
00:31:32,309 --> 00:31:35,312
{\an8}a story that pretty much
burst Deflategate.
584
00:31:35,312 --> 00:31:38,190
{\an8}Others were saying,
"Everybody's doing it."
585
00:31:38,190 --> 00:31:41,193
We do know that doctoring the football
is a common practice.
586
00:31:41,193 --> 00:31:42,819
[MacMullan] I went back and did a story
587
00:31:42,819 --> 00:31:47,115
on all the things quarterbacks did
to the footballs before games.
588
00:31:47,115 --> 00:31:49,535
People would put them
through the washing machine.
589
00:31:49,535 --> 00:31:52,621
All these things more egregious than PSI.
590
00:31:53,539 --> 00:31:55,499
Did Tom Brady deflate footballs?
591
00:31:55,499 --> 00:31:58,043
He probably did,
but what are we talking about here?
592
00:31:58,043 --> 00:32:01,338
It just makes me... All these years later,
I just still can't believe it.
593
00:32:01,338 --> 00:32:05,384
[fans clapping] Free Tom Brady!
594
00:32:05,384 --> 00:32:06,760
Roger sucks!
595
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:08,595
[fan] It's just frustrating
to sit as a fan,
596
00:32:08,595 --> 00:32:12,432
{\an8}and watch these morons in the front office
get away with this type of crime.
597
00:32:12,432 --> 00:32:13,517
[fans] Free Tom Brady!
598
00:32:13,517 --> 00:32:18,397
[David Portnoy] Once Brady was suspended,
Patriot fans, we were furious.
599
00:32:19,356 --> 00:32:20,649
{\an8}Myself, we're a Boston company,
600
00:32:20,649 --> 00:32:23,610
{\an8}a bunch of our employees were like,
"What are we gonna do?
601
00:32:23,610 --> 00:32:25,237
We're not taking this laying down.
602
00:32:25,237 --> 00:32:27,739
We want to fight this,
basically, to the death."
603
00:32:28,782 --> 00:32:30,617
[Portnoy] Today is May 12th.
604
00:32:30,617 --> 00:32:34,746
Getting ready to do a sit-in
in the Commissioner's office.
605
00:32:35,455 --> 00:32:39,501
{\an8}We are gonna walk in and say,
"We'd like to meet with Roger Goodell."
606
00:32:39,501 --> 00:32:42,796
{\an8}I assume
they aren't gonna grant that meeting.
607
00:32:42,796 --> 00:32:47,050
{\an8}And then we're just gonna fall down
onto the ground handcuffed to each other.
608
00:32:47,050 --> 00:32:49,178
{\an8}Something that people gotta understand
about Barstool
609
00:32:49,178 --> 00:32:53,140
is we're not the most thought-out
organization of all time.
610
00:32:53,140 --> 00:32:55,142
It's like,
"Hey, let's go to NFL headquarters."
611
00:32:55,142 --> 00:32:57,477
Like, "Everyone go home,
get your shit, and we're going."
612
00:32:57,477 --> 00:32:59,479
[protestors] Free Brady, fire Goodell!
613
00:32:59,479 --> 00:33:01,523
Free Brady, fire Goodell!
614
00:33:01,523 --> 00:33:04,401
[Portnoy] We did that little circle march
that you see
615
00:33:04,401 --> 00:33:08,405
when someone's picketing, and then we just
walked right into NFL headquarters,
616
00:33:08,405 --> 00:33:11,658
we talked to the secretary, she's like,
"Do you have an appointment?"
617
00:33:11,658 --> 00:33:13,785
We could tell
we were not getting up there,
618
00:33:13,785 --> 00:33:17,581
and we handcuffed ourselves to each other,
demanding to speak to the Commissioner.
619
00:33:17,581 --> 00:33:20,834
Give us five questions to Roger
and we'll leave.
620
00:33:20,834 --> 00:33:23,378
Why did you lie?
Why do you hate Tom Brady?
621
00:33:23,378 --> 00:33:25,464
How can you convict somebody
without proof?
622
00:33:25,464 --> 00:33:27,799
[guard] You guys
wanna get arrested, right?
623
00:33:27,799 --> 00:33:29,468
[Portnoy] No, we wanna
meet with Roger Goodell.
624
00:33:29,468 --> 00:33:31,428
OK, so you're going to wind up
getting arrested.
625
00:33:31,428 --> 00:33:33,305
I mean, I've got the cops coming over now.
626
00:33:33,305 --> 00:33:37,392
[Portnoy] The police showed up
and we got taken to jail.
627
00:33:37,392 --> 00:33:38,727
[protester] Free David Portnoy!
628
00:33:38,727 --> 00:33:40,729
[protester 2] Hate us
'cause they ain't us!
629
00:33:40,729 --> 00:33:42,189
Hate us 'cause they ain't us!
630
00:33:42,189 --> 00:33:43,524
[shutter clicks]
631
00:33:43,524 --> 00:33:46,652
[Portnoy] If you look back at it,
for such a stupid thing,
632
00:33:46,652 --> 00:33:50,113
it was crazy. It was crazy.
For a long time, it was crazy.
633
00:33:50,113 --> 00:33:52,157
The potential cheating scandal
634
00:33:52,157 --> 00:33:54,493
involving one of the great teams
and great quarterbacks
635
00:33:54,493 --> 00:33:55,744
in the history of the game
636
00:33:55,744 --> 00:33:58,664
continues to consume a colossal amount
of time and attention.
637
00:33:58,664 --> 00:34:00,082
{\an8}[reporter] The Deflategate scandal
638
00:34:00,082 --> 00:34:02,459
{\an8}has moved from the football field
to the courtroom.
639
00:34:02,459 --> 00:34:04,837
{\an8}[reporter 2] Brady is appealing
his four-game suspension.
640
00:34:04,837 --> 00:34:06,797
{\an8}[host] I've gotta talk about
the court sketches.
641
00:34:06,797 --> 00:34:11,426
{\an8}Here's the thing, Tom Brady
is a really, really handsome man.
642
00:34:11,426 --> 00:34:12,886
{\an8}But this?
643
00:34:12,886 --> 00:34:15,472
{\an8}Do you think it should be a huge story?
644
00:34:15,472 --> 00:34:17,975
Well, let's see.
The government of Yemen has collapsed.
645
00:34:17,975 --> 00:34:20,101
You have terror cells in France.
646
00:34:20,101 --> 00:34:25,940
And all three network news, uh, broadcasts
tonight were led with Deflategate.
647
00:34:25,940 --> 00:34:27,442
Oh, my goodness, yeah!
648
00:34:27,442 --> 00:34:30,904
{\an8}This is a story
that should have been a speck.
649
00:34:31,530 --> 00:34:32,781
{\an8}But it's the Patriots.
650
00:34:32,781 --> 00:34:35,659
It's the biggest story in town.
651
00:34:35,659 --> 00:34:38,245
It's our top story.
It's the ongoing Deflategate scandal.
652
00:34:38,245 --> 00:34:43,625
In other news, the fate of two Japanese
men held hostage by ISIS is uncertain.
653
00:34:43,625 --> 00:34:45,710
I mean, it was insane.
654
00:34:46,879 --> 00:34:49,840
But you look at the ratings, it's so big
655
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:53,092
that it just builds on itself
over and over and over and over.
656
00:34:53,092 --> 00:34:55,012
[Lenny Leonard]
Boston wins because they cheat.
657
00:34:55,012 --> 00:34:58,056
{\an8}You know, for three games,
Boston used a volleyball painted brown?
658
00:34:58,056 --> 00:35:00,767
{\an8}There's only one thing you can deflate.
659
00:35:00,767 --> 00:35:02,644
{\an8}These nuts!
660
00:35:02,644 --> 00:35:04,146
[laughter]
661
00:35:05,439 --> 00:35:08,025
[MacMullan] The NFL, the media,
662
00:35:08,025 --> 00:35:10,068
fans across the world,
663
00:35:10,068 --> 00:35:13,739
we all took this nothing event
664
00:35:13,739 --> 00:35:18,285
and turned it into
one of the most ridiculous controversies
665
00:35:18,285 --> 00:35:20,370
I can ever remember in my lifetime.
666
00:35:26,126 --> 00:35:27,836
[reporter] This scandal over footballs
667
00:35:27,836 --> 00:35:30,047
in professional football will not go away.
668
00:35:31,381 --> 00:35:35,427
[reporter 2] The NFL's Deflategate
scandal appears headed to federal court.
669
00:35:35,427 --> 00:35:36,637
[shutters clicking]
670
00:35:36,637 --> 00:35:39,973
{\an8}It was like
the crime of the century had occurred
671
00:35:39,973 --> 00:35:42,351
for the NFL's lawyers.
672
00:35:43,685 --> 00:35:47,523
For whatever reason,
they chose to drag out everything
673
00:35:47,523 --> 00:35:49,816
and create a huge distraction.
674
00:35:50,484 --> 00:35:52,569
I think it hurt the NFL.
675
00:35:52,569 --> 00:35:54,071
It didn't help it.
676
00:35:55,030 --> 00:35:58,033
[Howard Bryant] I remember
watching this and wondering,
677
00:35:58,033 --> 00:36:02,454
"Why are you spending so much time
and so much money on this?"
678
00:36:03,455 --> 00:36:07,000
{\an8}And I think that at that same time...
679
00:36:07,709 --> 00:36:10,921
{\an8}...the NFL's got these
domestic violence issues.
680
00:36:11,630 --> 00:36:13,507
The NFL has got labor issues.
681
00:36:14,967 --> 00:36:19,388
And those things got pushed to the side
to concentrate on this,
682
00:36:19,388 --> 00:36:22,558
because it was the Patriots.
683
00:36:27,479 --> 00:36:29,481
[reporter] The big news
coming out from the NFL,
684
00:36:29,481 --> 00:36:33,110
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell
is upholding the four-game suspension
685
00:36:33,110 --> 00:36:35,404
against New England's QB
Tom Brady,
686
00:36:35,404 --> 00:36:37,656
by many accounts,
the face of the NFL right now,
687
00:36:37,656 --> 00:36:39,867
one of the most popular
quarterbacks out there.
688
00:36:41,660 --> 00:36:44,538
[Robert Kraft] I felt it was important
to make a statement today
689
00:36:44,538 --> 00:36:46,748
prior to the start of training camp.
690
00:36:46,748 --> 00:36:50,586
I had hopes that Tom Brady's appeal
to the league
691
00:36:50,586 --> 00:36:54,923
would provide Roger Goodell
the necessary explanation
692
00:36:54,923 --> 00:36:57,593
to overturn his suspension.
693
00:36:58,135 --> 00:37:01,805
I was wrong to put my faith in the league.
694
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:07,436
When we have a fight, we like to win,
695
00:37:07,436 --> 00:37:09,354
and win every battle.
696
00:37:10,898 --> 00:37:15,694
But, in the end, you know,
Goodell has the ultimate authority.
697
00:37:16,695 --> 00:37:18,989
We weren't gonna win the battle.
698
00:37:18,989 --> 00:37:21,575
And I wanted to get it over.
699
00:37:22,159 --> 00:37:26,163
After this,
I will not be talking about this matter,
700
00:37:26,163 --> 00:37:30,918
and I would advise everyone
in the organization to do the same.
701
00:37:31,877 --> 00:37:34,838
[producer] Okay, so, Tom,
sitting here today,
702
00:37:34,838 --> 00:37:38,842
would you like to respond to any
of the allegations from the Wells report,
703
00:37:38,842 --> 00:37:41,303
and the months-long NFL investigation?
704
00:37:41,303 --> 00:37:42,429
[laughs]
705
00:37:42,429 --> 00:37:43,514
No.
706
00:37:45,933 --> 00:37:49,603
You know, obviously, I have
a lot of personal feelings and, um...
707
00:37:49,603 --> 00:37:52,105
But I really don't care
to share many of those.
708
00:37:52,105 --> 00:37:55,526
I really care to think about
what I need to do going forward.
709
00:37:55,526 --> 00:37:57,277
Thanks, guys. Nice to see you.
710
00:37:57,277 --> 00:38:00,364
[Brady] I mean, look,
I saw, like, venom from people
711
00:38:00,364 --> 00:38:03,951
that was so far beyond comprehension.
712
00:38:03,951 --> 00:38:07,120
But it was more than about
under-inflated footballs in the end.
713
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:09,164
Now it's probably football lore.
714
00:38:10,374 --> 00:38:12,584
But at that time, it was exhausting.
715
00:38:14,211 --> 00:38:17,172
And at some point,
you just drop the rope and you go,
716
00:38:17,172 --> 00:38:19,633
"Okay, like, that's enough," you know?
717
00:38:20,926 --> 00:38:25,097
[reporter] Brady will not play the first
four games of the 2016 season. He's out.
718
00:38:26,348 --> 00:38:29,810
{\an8}[chatter]
719
00:38:31,395 --> 00:38:34,690
[Amendola] Obviously, Tom,
it took a massive toll on him.
720
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.
721
00:38:39,069 --> 00:38:41,321
But after the training camp,
722
00:38:41,321 --> 00:38:43,448
he was gonna miss four games,
723
00:38:43,448 --> 00:38:46,076
and he was pissed.
724
00:38:46,076 --> 00:38:47,244
Hike!
725
00:38:48,662 --> 00:38:50,539
[Amendola] He was fucking angry.
726
00:38:50,539 --> 00:38:51,748
No!
727
00:38:51,748 --> 00:38:54,418
[Amendola] You know,
there was definitely the feeling like,
728
00:38:54,418 --> 00:38:58,005
when he gets back after his suspension,
729
00:38:58,005 --> 00:39:00,966
he's gonna rain vengeance upon thee...
730
00:39:00,966 --> 00:39:02,801
[laughs]
731
00:39:03,468 --> 00:39:05,804
[Brady] Hey, go whoop their ass.
732
00:39:05,804 --> 00:39:09,558
[reporter] Tom Brady, he's going to
come back and play possessed.
733
00:39:10,184 --> 00:39:12,269
[Stephen A. Smith]
We have a reason to be scared.
734
00:39:12,269 --> 00:39:16,106
A lot of teams,
if not every team, is simply saying...
735
00:39:17,065 --> 00:39:18,233
"Uh-oh."