The Best Reasons Why We're Already Over #DeflateGate

It was a week ago. As Americans, our attention spans should be shorter than that by now.

So we've all learned a lesson since last Sunday -- deflated footballs are bad.

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^^ Big no no.

When the story broke, it was a GREAT day for Patriots haters everywhere...

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...and kind of confusing for the fans.

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Did they...? No. No way. But maybe? No. LIES....right?

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Why is this happening? WHYYYYYYY.

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SAY IT ISN'T SO.

But we're over it now.

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Psh. Old news. Lemme tell you why.

First off, not even the online sports sites think it's legit.

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When the sports pages are bored, we're all bored.

Secondly, Bill Belichick dropped some sweet knowledge.

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"The footballs are prepared in our locker room, they’re delivered to the officials’ locker room, which is a controlled environment. Whatever we have here is what we have there." And other important stuff here.

...relaying the info in the charming, meaningful way Bill always does.

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From left to right: his happy face, his sad face, his mad face.

Plus, then he said this.

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And we realized that listening to him 'handle balls' was way more fun than being mad about anything.

Hehehehehe balls.

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Thirdly, in the end, Pats fans didn't give a sh*t.

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And they rallied...meme style.

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Basically, fans did to the haters what Mayo did to Pitta.

Lastly, any deflated footballs were probably the Gronk's fault.

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Because of the manly, manly muscles in his super strong arms.

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WE FORGIVE YOU.

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If this picture doesn't help you move on from #DeflateGate, nothing will. Gotta go mop my drool up off the floor bye.

See you at the Super Bowl!

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BOOM.