Seahawks punter Jon Ryan briefly found himself as a trending topic on Facebook Wednesday night for something that he called “the most ludicrous thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life.’’
The story began when a Patriots fan on Twitter published screen grabs of Ryan holding the ball before his last punt of Monday night’s game against Buffalo, a 62-yarder, with the caption “more deflated balls in a Walt Anderson game?’’ Anderson, the referee for Monday night’s game, was also the referee for the New England playoff game that led to the Deflate-gate controversy.
The story might have been confined to a few Tweets if it had not been picked up by USA Today’s “For The Win’’ which published a story with the headline “Did Seattle punter use deflated ball?