The NFL Can't Explain Why They Aren't Investigating Aaron Rodgers for Overinflating the Football

Why isn't the NFL investigating Aaron Rodgers?

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#DeflateGate is one of the dumbest sports controversies in recent memory. Why? Well, for one thing, it's a completely hypocritical goose chase. 

Back in January, as the media storm about this fiasco was just starting to kick up, we posted about Aaron Rodgers' tendency to overinflate the football. Here's the gist of it: 

Schofield dug up a recording of the November regular season match-up between the Patriots and the Green Bay Packers, then highlighted a noteworthy snippet in the third quarter of the game when CBS analyst Phil Simms revealed that Packers QB Aaron Rodgers regularly overinflates the football. Simms said that he learned about this tendency from Rodgers himself.

Crazy, right? However, no one pressed the issue any further, and the story seemingly died on the vine. Until, that is, Tom Brady's recent appeal hearing with the league, when NFLPA lawyer Jeffrey Kessler questioned NFL VP of Football Operations Troy Vincent about the matter. Here's the full transcript of their back-and-forth: 

Q. ...you will see that Mr. Rodgers was quoted as saying, "I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it." ... Do you see that?

Uh, nope. You're wrong about that one, Troy. This was a pre-game comment. Not only that, it was also a total admission to altering a football that the NFL chose to ignore because...why? Was there not enough public outcry about it or something? 

Whatever the case, it's yet another reminder of what a lame farce this entire saga is. Can we just start the season already?

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[via CBS Sports]

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