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Lets give Tom Brady the benefit of the doubt and say that he didn't know the footballs were going to be deflated. The equipment managers planned it all on their own. He knew nothing. I'm willing to do that. However, as I said before, there is simply no way that once he picked them up, handled them, threw them to warm up, that he didn't know they were deflated. Simply. No. Way. Ask any professional athlete, bet they'd say the same thing. So when he doesn't step up and take responsibility for knowing about it after the fact is lying and cheating, plain and simple. That is where he lost my respect. I was a fan of his before this but can no longer support him. The only good that comes out of it is that I have had discussions with my family about taking responsibility for their actions, accepting consequences, and conducting themselves in a manner that would make themselves proud and allow them to sleep at night. A good life lesson in a world full of crazy. 
@nycgirl79 wrote:Lets give Tom Brady the benefit of the doubt and say that he didn't know the footballs were going to be deflated. The equipment managers planned it all on their own. He knew nothing. I'm willing to do that. However, as I said before, there is simply no way that once he picked them up, handled them, threw them to warm up, that he didn't know they were deflated. Simply. No. Way. Ask any professional athlete, bet they'd say the same thing. So when he doesn't step up and take responsibility for knowing about it after the fact is lying and cheating, plain and simple. That is where he lost my respect. I was a fan of his before this but can no longer support him. The only good that comes out of it is that I have had discussions with my family about taking responsibility for their actions, accepting I consequences, and conducting themselves in a manner that would make themselves proud and allow them to sleep at night. A good life lesson in a world full of crazy.
I have to respectfully disagree....in the course of the game, your aderenalin is high, you don't have the same touch. Brady is an intense player... And, maybe the balls did feel lighter, but he just wasn't thinking about it...you are thinking of the next play and it was an exciting game....so the pressure is on...in practice it is a totally different thing. In the course of the game, it is the officials job to inspect the balls because they can change with weather conditions ...that is their job, what they are paid to do, not the QB. Every player in the course of the game breaks a rule...the low hit, the clip, roughing the QB...and he hopes to get away with it and sometimes they do...but officials prevent that His crime was ordering the balls to be deflated; they merely had to ask the ball boys, who coincidently, can not be found. Once the game starts, it is in the officials hands. Brady went to court for the crime that he was accused of and not for what happens in the course of an intense game or the lack of officiating. Brady was not guilty.
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