I hate the Pats, and Spygate maaaaybe had some very slight legitimacy, but Deflategate was the biggest crock of shit.

By cheating do you mean that time the team recorded video from a perfectly legal location and that time the laws of physics worked as they were supposed to?

Counterpoint: The anti-Patriots whining and celebrating, especially last night on Twitter when the Falcons were winning, is more annoying. I don’t know many Boston sports fans, but I do know a lot of people who are really salty that some other team wins a lot (and I’m an Eagles fan, so you know I’d do unspeakable…

Why hasn’t Deadspin run the story where Schefter basically calls Goodell a liar about not suspending the Pat’s ball boys. Schefty’s rant is pretty entertaining.

90 sources and not one would go on the record. That tells all you need to know about the sources and their stories.

Here’s the thing about saying the story “made the league look way worse than the Pats”: that’s totally true. What the report does is:

Look, I’m not a Patriots fan, but that long, long column contained very little news, other than the stuff about Goodell allegedly wanting to get the spygate investigation over as quickly as possible. I agree that it makes the league look worse than the Patriots, but there’s also a whole lot of alleged cheating as well.

Reiss used his personal blog to criticize ESPN’s coverage of Deflategate: http://www.mikereiss.net/media-coverage…

I think the old saying when ESPN had actual comment sections was

DO NOT FUCK WITH ESPNFL, MINION!!!!!