Many sports arguments are little more than high-octane geographical food fights. It’s your city against their city, your colors against their colors, your belief in the righteousness of your superstar versus their belief in the righteousness of their superstar.
Deflategate takes that mold and crushes it into little pieces. Rarely has an issue divided actual players as this one has, to the shocking degree that it has taken on a Civil War-like quality: Brother against brother.
In this case, the “brothers” are former Patriots teammates Tedy Bruschi and Damien Woody, now employed as analysts by ESPN.