If you hadn't noticed, the Deflategate story is everywhere.
It popped up at a new locale on Wednesday night: the 2015 Patriots Hall of Fame induction where Willie McGinest and Houston Antwine were enshrined into The Hall at Patriot Place.
To kick off the ceremony, Patriots president Jonathan Kraft took the podium to explain that The Hall means to the organization and how it came to be. During that introduction, he couldn't help but take a jab at the NFL for Deflategate.
Kraft said that when The Hall opened in 2008, the franchise wanted to make its museum resemble the one for the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
"We wanted to make that experience, that celebrated all of these men and their accomplishments, interactive," Kraft said. "So we spent a lot of time and energy and incorporated technology into every piece of it.
"But we wanted to do something else. We wanted it to have a purpose that went beyond just celebrating the history of the team and these men. We wanted it to be something where kids could come celebrate football history, but also get something else out of it.
"I think that people have never had the full appreciation -- and as we've seen in the last year, maybe still don't have the full appreciation -- for how important math and science are in the game of football."
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When the transcripts of Tom Brady's appeal hearing were released earlier this week, one of the revelations that came out of the information dump was that NFL vice president of operations Troy Vincent was not aware of the ideal gas law, which would explain how footballs can loose air pressure naturally over the course of time, especially in certain conditions.