DeflateGate: Reporter shows balls can be deflated in less than 1 minute (Video)

By WTOP Staff
January 28, 2015 | 9:06 AM

WASHINGTON — A reporter has taken “DeflateGate” into his own hands.

When New York Daily News’ Gersh Kuntzman found out that a New England Patriots locker room attendant reportedly took 12 game balls into a bathroom for 90 seconds, he decided to test out if it is even possible to deflate that many balls in that little time.

Turns out, it only took him 40 seconds to finish the job.

Watch the video:

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Quarterback Alex Smith’s grueling road to recovery chronicled in ESPN program

By CNN
April 28, 2020 | 10:34 PM

NFL quarterback Alex Smith suffered a gruesome leg injury that put his career in jeopardy and had him fighting for his life, and his long and grueling road to recovery is chronicled in an upcoming one-hour program from ESPN called "Project 11." The leg injury occurred Nov. 18, 2018, in the third quarter of a game between the Washington Redskins and Houston Texans. After being sacked by the Texans' J.J. Watt and Kareem Jackson, Smith suffered a spiral and compound fracture of the right tibia and fibula.