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Joe Montana Indicates Tom Brady Had to be Behind Deflation of Footballs

Former NFL quarterback Joe Montana would know better than anyone what goes on behind the scenes as it relates to the under-inflation of footballs prior to the games themselves.

The four-time Super Bowl winner, a player many consider the best quarterback in the history of the game, had some interesting comments regarding Deflate-gate (via Boston Globe).

If I ever want a ball a certain way, I don’t do it myself. So, somebody did it for him. But I don’t know why everybody is making a big deal out of trying to figure out who did it. It’s pretty simple. If it was done, it was done for a reason.

That’s an interesting statement from an individual that has in the past supported Tom Brady, including calling him one of the greatest quarterbacks of all-time.

If atmospheric conditions didn’t play a role, and there is no reason to believe that they did, Montana’s point is that Brady had to be behind the under-inflation of the footballs prior to the AFC Championship game nearly two weeks ago.

Montana continued…

I mean, it’s easy to figure out who did it… Did Tom do it? No, but Tom likes the balls that way, obviously, or you wouldn’t have 11 of them that way without him complaining, because as a quarterback, you know how you like the ball. If it doesn’t feel like that, something is wrong.

Don’t take this as Montana judging Brady for potentially breaking the rules. The Hall of Fame quarterback doesn’t necessarily believe that the rules should exist in the first place.

“It’s a stupid thing to even be talking about because they shouldn’t have the rule anyway.” Montana said during a promotional appearance for Papa John’s. “If you want to see the game played at the best, everybody has a different grip, everybody likes a different feel.”

Regardless of whether Montana actually believes the rules are dumb, they do in fact exist. His belief that Brady had to be behind the scandal is most definitely something we shouldn’t take lightly.

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