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Rob Gronkowski's perfect explanation for Patriots' deflated footballs

It looks like the NFL can call off its investigation into the New England Patriots football deflation scandal, because Rob Gronkowski has offered a perfect explanation for the balls losing some psi during Sunday's AFC Championship game.

It looks like the NFL can call off its investigation into the New England Patriots football deflation scandal, because Rob Gronkowski has offered a perfect explanation for the balls losing some psi during Sunday's AFC Championship game.

It would not really be fair to punish the Patriots if the air was forced out of the football via Gronking, would it?

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All that needs to be done is to check if the ball intercepted by D'Qwell Jackson was one that had been Gronked on a previous play.

- Brendan Maloy

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