2015 was still a year that really belonged to the United States Women’s National Team. They brought home America’s first Cup since 1999. So while the USWNT was the most unifying and uplifting national sports story of 2015 that we all rallied behind, Deflategate was the most repugnant story that unified us in our fatigue from it.
It’s not that Tom Brady and the New England Patriots deflating footballs is the end of the world. There are zillions of bigger and more important things to get angry about. However, the media just would not SHUT UP about it for weeks upon months.
It not only ruined the Super Bowl, it forced the Super Bowl franchise to jump the shark, potentially irreversibly. You should definitely read Chuck Klosterman’s exclusive with Tom Brady in the December issue of GQ. How Brady choose to handle or really not handle the deflate gate questions tells you pretty much everything you need to know about the story, and Brady as a person
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Awww, aren’t they cute?
Here’s the USWNT:
Here’s deflategate, Tom Brady never looked so good:
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