New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has revealed that DefateGate hurt his feelings and that he's been internalizing all the problems swirling around his team ahead of the 2015 Super Bowl against the Seattle Seahawks. The three-time NFL champion, NFL MVP and husband of the world's highest earning supermodel Gisele Bundchen also told reporters he STILL hasn't spoken to the NFL about the 11 of 12 deflated balls used in his team's huge 42-7 AFC championship game win over the Indianapolis Colts as the team left Boston today for Arizona ahead of the Super Bowl.
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Brady spoke on Boston WEEI radio program 'The Dennis & Callahan Show' saying "I personalized a lot of things and thought this was all about me, and my feelings got hurt."
Continued Brady, "Then I moved past it, because it's not serving me. What's serving me is try to prepare for the game ahead. I'll deal with whatever happens later. I'll have my opportunity to try to figure out what happened and figure out a theory like everyone else is trying to do. But this isn't the time for that."
As for whether or not he tampered with any of the balls, or had any knowledge of it, he replied "Absolutely not," said Brady. "Look, I don't want to keep getting into this. No, I didn't and I haven't and I never will. That's obviously how I feel and the kind of person that I am."
Continued the QB, "No one knows the facts. I picked 24 balls, that's what I picked. Whatever happened after I did it and whatever the situation was where they measured them, I have no idea [about] any of those facts. I try to stay really humble and deal with the facts that I know. When you don't know something, all I can say is I don't know. I know that's not always the answer that people want to hear, but that's the reality."
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As ESPN's Mike Reiss reports, Brady also revealed to ESPN's Chris Berman during an interview that the NFL still haven't spoken to him about the 11 of 12 deflated balls from the AFC Championship game against the Indianapolis Colts.
"No, no. I believe they're going to do after the season, so we'll deal with it after this game," Brady told Berman.
He added to the ESPN host that he and his team aren't "I think everybody's locked in, ready to go for this Super Bowl. It's a great opportunity for us, you know, and our guys have worked really hard, so hopefully we can go out there and play our best on Sunday."
"I think what's serving me is to try to prepare for the game ahead, and I'll deal with whatever happens later. I'll have my opportunity to try to figure out what happened and figure out a theory like everyone else is trying to do. But this isn't the time for that, and honestly I'm not interested in trying to find out right now because we have the biggest game of our season ahead."
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Yahoo! Sports's Frank Schwab added that the Brady revelations mean that "this might be the signal that the significant news on deflate-gate is drying up heading into Super Bowl week."
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