{"id":63347,"date":"2015-01-19T10:41:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T16:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=63347"},"modified":"2015-01-19T10:41:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T16:41:56","slug":"nfl-investigating-pats-football-deflating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=63347","title":{"rendered":"NFL investigating Pats football deflating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/NFLreferee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4576\" alt=\"NFLreferee\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/NFLreferee-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/NFLreferee-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/NFLreferee-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/NFLreferee-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/NFLreferee.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy says the NFL is investigating whether the Patriots deflated footballs used in their AFC championship game victory over the Colts.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 McCarthy said Monday morning he cannot provide any other information now.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The inquiry was first reported by the website for WTHR-TV in Indiana, citing an unnamed source.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The NFL rule book says &#8220;it is the responsibility of the home team to furnish playable balls at all times.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The game operations manual notes that people who alter footballs or allow an unapproved football to be used in a game can be disciplined with fines or other punishments.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Patriots beat the Colts 45-7 to reach the Super Bowl. New England will play Seattle for the NFL title on Feb. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy says the NFL is investigating whether the Patriots deflated footballs used in their AFC championship game victory over the Colts. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 McCarthy said Monday morning he cannot provide any other information now. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The inquiry was first reported by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":63348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63349,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63347\/revisions\/63349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}