The greatest trick play in football history is that scene from “The Longest Yard” when Burt Reynolds dismantles Ray Nitschke with a series of bullet passes to the nether regions.
But that may change soon if the unthinkable happens and some bizarre trick play allows both sides of the ongoing Deflategate debate to claim peace with honor.
It’s just that there’s no way that’s going to happen.
In one corner of this Battle of the Embattled we have Tom Brady, “Golden Boy” quarterback of the New England Patriots who faces a four-game suspension for his alleged role in the doctoring of footballs last winter during his team’s march to the Super Bowl.