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| Update: Patriots ball boy reportedly took footballs into bathroom for about 90 seconds | |
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| Update, 11:15 p.m.: Pro Football Talk, citing a “league source,” reported Monday night that the place described below by Glazer as “another area” was a single-person bathroom. PFT claimed that a person was seen on surveillance video carrying two bags of 12 balls, one for the Patriots and one for the Colts, into the bathroom and emerging “approximately 90 seconds” later. | |
| If this is presumed to be the time and place in which the deflation of the balls took place, it would have to be proven that the 11 balls, as previously reported, could have been deflated in the observed time period. On the other hand, this information, on its own, does not incriminate or exonerate the Patriots’ locker room attendant or the team itself. | |
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| Following the press conferences held by Patriots Coach Bill Belichick (two, in his case) and quarterback Tom Brady, and their repeated denials of any involvement with deflating footballs before the AFC championship game, the question has been asked, again and again: If they had nothing to do with it, who did? | Following the press conferences held by Patriots Coach Bill Belichick (two, in his case) and quarterback Tom Brady, and their repeated denials of any involvement with deflating footballs before the AFC championship game, the question has been asked, again and again: If they had nothing to do with it, who did? |
| A report by Jay Glazer of Fox Sports indicates that the NFL is focusing its investigation on someone much farther down the food chain than Belichick and Brady. On Monday afternoon, Glazer tweeted out this update: | A report by Jay Glazer of Fox Sports indicates that the NFL is focusing its investigation on someone much farther down the food chain than Belichick and Brady. On Monday afternoon, Glazer tweeted out this update: |
| Breaking news: sources tell @FOXSports the NFL has zeroed in on a locker room attendant w Patriots who allegedly took balls from officials locker room to another area on way to field. Sources say they have interviewed him and additionally have video. Still gauging if any wrong doing occurred with him but he is strong person of interest | Breaking news: sources tell @FOXSports the NFL has zeroed in on a locker room attendant w Patriots who allegedly took balls from officials locker room to another area on way to field. Sources say they have interviewed him and additionally have video. Still gauging if any wrong doing occurred with him but he is strong person of interest |
| Breaking news: sources tell @FOXSports the NFL has zeroed in on a locker room attendant w Patriots who allegedly took balls from officials locker room to another area on way to field. Sources say they have interviewed him and additionally have video. Still gauging if any wrong doing occurred with him but he is strong person of interest | Breaking news: sources tell @FOXSports the NFL has zeroed in on a locker room attendant w Patriots who allegedly took balls from officials locker room to another area on way to field. Sources say they have interviewed him and additionally have video. Still gauging if any wrong doing occurred with him but he is strong person of interest |
| If true, then we may at least have the direct culprit in “DeflateGate.” Still to be determined would be this person’s identity and, more importantly, whether or not he was acting on orders from anyone else in the Patriots’ organization. | If true, then we may at least have the direct culprit in “DeflateGate.” Still to be determined would be this person’s identity and, more importantly, whether or not he was acting on orders from anyone else in the Patriots’ organization. |