Some scandals never leave the side of celebrities. Especially not when you’re the GOAT of the NFL. So is the relationship between the infamous ‘Deflategate’ scandal and Tom Brady. Football players use the nationwide controversy when something goes left with their football even after almost 9 years of it.

Colorado two-way star Travis Hunter was the most recent player to remember the scandal during his football practice. Travis Hunter got the chance to throw the ball with his top contenders in the season and for the 2025 NFL draft: Quinn Ewers and Donovan Edwards during the EA Sports College Football 25 standard cover shoot.

Hunter also decided to capture his throws on camera to post on his YouTube channel later, but his throws didn’t go as planned. The ball turned out to be deflated, something that prompted Hunter to transport straight to 2015 when Tom Brady was allegedly deflating the ball ahead of the 2014 AFC Championship.

“That’s that Tom Brady ball for sure one,” Hunter said while throwing a spiral. “That Tom Brady ball is flat,” he later added, being brutal yet hilarious at the same time. The taint of suspension of 4 games and the dent in the reputation for a lifetime that Brady carries is all because of the rules and slight change in the atmospheric temperature then.

Let’s revisit the precarious moment in 2015, shall we?

When the NFL officials checked the footballs during the 2014 Colts vs. Patriots AFC Championship game. Gerry Austin initially (and incorrectly) reported that 11 of the 12 balls used by the Patriots allegedly measured two pounds per square inch below the minimum amount. He contradicted his wordings later, claiming that only one ball was two pounds per square inch below the minimum, while others were just a few ticks under the minimum.

Later in Clete Blakeman’s report, five of eleven footballs were reportedly measured below 11.0 psi. In the investigation, a physics-based argument was made claiming the change in pressure emerged because of the change in the atmospheric climate. However, per attorney Ted Wells’s report, Patriots locker-room attendant Jim McNally and equipment assistant John Jastremski were the alleged culprits.

Tom Brady, the QB, did not face any repercussions in the 2015 season and appeared in each game. But it was in 2016 that the QB had to serve a four-game suspension. The Patriots and Tom Brady had a perfect comeback for it, however, winning the Super Bowl that season.