#DeflateGate is live and will only gain steam during Super Bowl week. Supposedly it had started when Colts LB D’Qwell Jackson intercepted Tom Brady and took the ball to the equipment manager. Reports said he noticed the ball didn’t feel right but D’Qwell says that is not the case.
Via Pro Football Talk,
Jackson now says he didn’t notice anything unusual about the football, and that he didn’t take the ball to the sideline as part of an effort to expose a scandal. “I wanted that ball as a souvenir,” Jackson tells Jeff Darlington of NFL Media, adding that Jackson did not intend to “blow the whistle” on the Patriots.
The NFL reportedly was already planning to check the footballs due to complaints about the Patriots but the big question is whether the NFL is going to return the INT ball back to Jackson.