It happened while a tight end from the same team was found guilty of driving a man to a parking lot and killing him in cold blood.

Deflategate is the equivalent of Roger Goodell spending a few million dollars to investigate a mosquito bite, while a plague of locusts destroys everything and anything around him.

And if you accept that New England really doesn’t deserve the benefit of the doubt, the report is a delight to read. The investigation, as headed by heavy hitter attorney Ted Wells, is rendered in surprisingly readable prose, and nicely conveys a cool skepticism towards all of the official New England claims; like a noir detective who knows he’s being lied to, but isn’t angry, Wells weaves all of the relevant text messages, phone contacts, video footage, and eyewitness interviews into a muscular circumstantial case.