Publisher's Synopsis
The last thing anyone needs is another story about deflated footballs. This is the opposite of that. If Deflategate had really been about the air in footballs, nobody would have cared in the first place. This is about criminals exposing their own guilt, and vindication, conspiracy, perjury, fake science, puzzle-solving, failure of the press and the scientists, and a cover-up of what happened in the places people get undressed. The only footballs involved were properly inflated.
For non-football fans or non-Patriots fans: A fascinating story of brazen deception and real-world detective work catching the guilty through their own documents and leaked information.
For NFL league office detractors or Patriots fans: The NFL had 100% certainty of 0% deflation and no conspiracy. They deleted some info to appease fans and owners who wanted the Patriots penalized. Then the info leaked out. There's 100 times more evidence against the NFL than previously known.
84% of Americans have it wrong. A 100 million dollar sports scandal frequently covered in the national news isn't what people think. It is fake accusations that made real news. Only the accusers are guilty. They framed the innocent by withholding information and misconstruing other information. In an added twist, the guilty organization violated the very rules it claimed to be enforcing.
Fortunately, the accusers didn't scrub their testimony and data hard enough to fully wash away the proof of innocence.
In popular culture, Deflategate is about Tom Brady and the Patriots getting caught letting air out of their footballs to gain an unfair advantage. It was easy and convenient to believe the Patriots cheated; don't all teams cut corners? There appeared to be a lot of incriminating text message evidence.
This is the true-life detective story of how the author discovered that the NFL had the data to completely vindicate the Patriots but withheld it from the public. The information accidentally leaked out in ways no one expected.
