Tweets of the Week: Patriots Pummel Deflated Colts

Reactions in the midst of and after New England’s rout of Indy 45-7 in the AFC Championship game
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WTHR-TV’s Bob Kravitz broke the story via a source that the NFL is investigating whether the New England Patriots deflated balls in-game last night against the Indianapolis Colts. The Pats may face punishment including the loss of future draft picks. Colts fans, summoning all their outrage, will recall the 2007 “Spygate” scandal, in which Pats coach Bill Belichick was fined $500,000 and the team had to hand over $250,000 after it was found that the organization spied on New York Jets coaches’ sideline signals via videotape. Even so, deflated balls hardly tell the entire story:

 

But Kravitz wasn’t done with his truthiness:

 

As we are now up to our eyes in awards season:

 

About the below: C—all of the above?

 

This is sobering about the Colts:

https://twitter.com/schultz1260/status/556998168341405698

 

Fault in Our Stars author John Green, beaming in from his sports-centric Twitter account, waxed philosophical about it all, even if perennial Colts foil Tom Brady could not:

https://twitter.com/sportswithjohn/status/557014835129778176

 

More Pacers talk seeped into the mix, as perhaps it only could:

https://twitter.com/1070Bruno/status/557009315249524736

 

But consider this, Colts fans: It could always be worse.

 

In closing, anyone for a Spaceballs reference?

 

 

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