7 Years Of Internet: A Meh-rathon
Deflategate—proof positive that we’ll put “gate” after anything and get ten times the news coverage. For a hot minute, even people who had never pretended to care about the NFL were memeing their way into the conversation about Tom Brady’s allegedly misinflated footballs, with takes ranging from the litigious to the absurd.
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