Even years after the NFL’s Deflategate saga has ended, new details are apparently still emerging.
Prior to the release of his upcoming book, Playmakers, Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio revealed two pieces of new information about the the NFL’s investigation of the Patriots for deflating footballs.
The first of Florio’s revelations pertains to one of the most famous (and infamous) reports that emerged early in the scandal, helping to propel it into a major story.
Shortly after Bob Kravitz of The Indianapolis Star broke the Deflategate story—and that the NFL was investigating—ESPN’s Chris Mortensen reported that the league had found that “11 of [the Patriots’] 12 allotted game footballs under-inflated by 2 pounds of air (PSI) less than what’s required by NFL regulations.