Bill and Hill congratulate Tom Brady

Why Does the Media Hate Tom Brady?

Okay, to briefly restate, it is my humble observation -- and I, by the way, stand to be corrected on this if I've got this wrong. But I've read enough of this report to draw the conclusion that the NFL purposely allowed a game to be played, no less an AFC championship game, with footballs that were underinflated, that were not inflated to required PSI.

And they did this, it appears, to catch whoever it was doing this, i.e., cheating. It was brought to the league's attention long before the game by the Indianapolis Colts. It was brought to the league's attention in weeks prior and on the day of the game. And simply on the basis of the Colts registering complaint, the league decided to find out what was going on.

Now, I don't think you can look at this in a vacuum. I don't think you could look at this event without keeping something else present in your mind and that is Spygate. There are still a lot of really ruffled feathers and angry feelings about Spygate. That Belichick was not suspended, for example. I've read in the voluminous reading that I've done last night and today that some people think that the commissioner of The NFL, to this day, regrets not suspending Belichick.

But I keep coming back to why in the world would you as a league, as an enterprise, as a company, however you want to look at it, why would you put yourself in the situation that you're at today? You have your biggest star player now under a cloud. You have the media and fans clamoring for your star player to be suspended and fined and severely punished.

You have other coaches and players throughout the league eagerly watching to see what happens here because, as I mentioned, Sean Payton, the coach of the New Orleans Saints, was suspended a whole season precisely because he did not know what was going on in his locker room. And this report says that Belichick did not know what was going on with these footballs.

So Sean Payton's gonna be looking at this. I don't think he'd say anything. But he's gonna be looking at it. You've got a bunch of players who've been suspended for things that did not have anything to do with the integrity of the game, other than it doesn't help the game to have a criminal element play in it. But I mean being suspended for wife beating or marijuana is not a direct attack on the integrity of the game like this was, or is.

The Patriots, as the Super Bowl champions, open the season Thursday night, first game of the season, in September, and they'll host the Pittsburgh Steelers. The league is now faced with the likelihood, apparently, that the star quarterback of the league is gonna be suspended and not available for that game. And if he isn't suspended and only fined, you're gonna have all other kinds of hell break loose here.

So it makes me wonder, why even run the risk of getting to this point when this could have maybe been shut down on game day. If you get a report, an allegation that some footballs are illegally inflated, well, find out. And if you find some that are illegally inflated, either throw 'em out or properly inflate them and play the game and then try to figure out what happened, instead of allowing a game to be played with footballs that do not meet the rule book regulations.

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‘Bill and Hill’ congratulate Tom Brady

An NFL investigation into the “deflategate” scandal suggests New England Patriot’s QB, Tom Brady, knew of the shenanigans.

Mr. Brady is one of the NFL’s marquee stars. He is considered one of the greatest quarterbacks to have ever played the game. This revelation taints his golden reputation.

Wall Street Journal editorial writer, Allysia Finley, wrote a tongue-in-cheek piece in the morning’s Journal titled, “What Bill and Hillary Could Tell Tom Brady.”Here are a few excerpts:

Tom—First off, delete this message after reading. We've got enough problems without you adding to them. That hack right-wing writer Peter Schweizer just put out a book, “Clinton Cash,” on us, so we appreciate you taking the tabloid spotlight for a bit.

Second, terrific job responding to all those ankle-biting reporters in January about the deflated pigskins you used during the Patriot’s AFC championship game against the Colts: “I didn't alter the ball in any way.” Of course, you didn’t. Your ball boys did. That’s what flunkies are for: Doing things you don’t want to get caught doing and then taking the fall.

When asked if you had cheated, you replied honestly: “I don’t believe so. I feel like I've always played within the rules. I would never do anything to break the rules.” We added the italics. In admiration. We couldn't have obfuscated any better. Of course, you don’t believe you did anything wrong. And neither do we.