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Aaron Rodgers Talks 'Incredibly False' and 'Ridiculous Narrative' About Deflategate

Nearly seven years after Phil Simms commented about Aaron Rodgers' preference to have the football inflated as much as possible during cold-weather games, the Green Bay Packers star addressed the story.

Appearing on The Pat McAfee Show, Rodgers called it an "incredibly false" and "ridiculous narrative" in the midst of all of the Deflategate drama with Tom Brady and the New England Patriots that he prefers to throw an overinflated football:

Pat McAfee

"I love rebutting narratives that are incredibly false.. there was a narrative used during deflategate that I like balls over inflated but all I ever told Phil Simms was I can't throw a flat ball" ~<a href="https://twitter.