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Brady lost 4 games and the team was fined an unprecedented amount. One million dollars. Deflategate penalty: NFL suspends Brady, fines Pats, takes draft picks | SI.com
I remember Fran Tarkenton, a former diminutive QB of the Vikings raised all kinds of heck about Brady's footballs being deflated (almost used a contraction of the word football with a hilarious result) because Tarkenton had itty bitty hands and played with properly deflated balls. I also heard it wasn't an uncommon practice for some QBs around the league to have equipment managers alter the air pressure of balls to fit the comfort zone of QBs. I mean, if the NFL wants to eradicate this process, have the NFL provide the balls instead of each team.
Yes. I think the Pats were screwed on this one. Why? Probably because of fan outrage. The same amount of fan outrage over the success of the Pats (poor baby fans).
Thanks for the info. Obviously, I misremembered! I also didn't know Tarkenton was still alive!