Deflate-gate? Please, someone take the air out of this story!

Gimme' a break with this story, already.  This is dragging on way too long.  And do you know why?  Because the NFL is absolutely crapping their pants as a result of one of its biggest stars doing something wrong, right before the Super Bowl, nonetheless!  It's not bad enough that "All American" Tom Brady got in trouble, but what's worse, is that Brady contradicted himself, and even flat out lied (in my opinion), during his press conference yesterday.  At one point he said he likes the footballs at 12.5psi, but couldn't tell the difference when using the under-inflated balls during the Colts game.  Really, dude?  As an NFL quarterback, you practically live with a football in your hands.  You should be able to tell when it's off by 0.01psi.  I'm not buying that he didn't know, and actually take it as an insult that he's trying to sell it that way.  

After dropping the ball on the Ray Rice case (and several others during the year), the NFL has to save face by punishing Brady and the Patriots, especially since this was something that happened on the field, not off.  But you're completely out of your mind if you think the punishment will be the suspension of one Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr. (I had no idea that was his full name, either) for the Super Bowl.  Never gonna' happen.  To be honest, though, the NFL is damned if they do, and damned if they don't in this situation.  Everyone outside of New England, I'm sure, is calling for his head.  And when the punishment comes out and he's not suspended, they'll all say, "Well it's because it's Tom Brady.  If it were Joe Blow he'd be suspended."  And in my opinion, that's probably true.  But put yourself in Roger Goodell's shoes.  Would you have the balls (deflated or not) to suspend one of the best players in football for the Super Bowl?  Keep in mind that the NFL is a business, and Jimmy Garoppolo isn't going to make people tune in to the game.  So the answer is most likely no.

I'll tell you exactly what's going to happen.  Tom Brady and/or the Patriots will be fined, and if Goodell is feeling frisky, maybe he'll take away a draft pick like he did with spy-gate.  That's it.  Brady will be under center come Super Bowl, people will bitch and moan, and life will go on.  Actually, the NFL will probably change the rule on football inflation since, you know, things change when Tom Brady is involved (see the "tuck rule" and the season he lost by a "low hit").