In a two-decade span of dominance for the New England Patriots, the “DeflateGate” controversy remains a miserable subject to prod at.
For many Patriots fans, it was an annoying slog of discourse that lasted for years on end — with media pundits, fans, and both current and former NFL players arguing over things such as PSI levels, another feared cheating scandal cooked up by New England personnel, Tom Brady’s awful courthouse portrait … and Mona Lisa Vito.
It was an exhausting process for Brady and the Patriots, with Brady eventually slapped with a four-game suspension in 2016 and New England docked two draft picks and fined $1 million.