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Back in January, Patriots owner Robert Kraft said he would demand an apology from the NFL if they couldn’t prove that anyone from the organization tampered with footballs during the AFC Championship game.
Kraft hasn’t gotten that apology and the punishment handed down by the league on Monday made it clear that none is forthcoming because the league feels that Tom Brady and members of the team’s equipment staff intentionally took air out of footballs in violation of the league’s rules. They fined the team $1 million, stripped them of a pair of draft picks and suspended Brady for the first four games of the 2016 season.