I still don’t get it. How does this article make it so they are owed an apology for cheating?
Somebody posted an FR article yesterday mentioning that the NFL ref was "suspicious" because he was given a ball at halftime by a Pat employee who wasn't normally involved in handling footballs.
So it raised a "chapter II" of deflategate.
Now if this guy was only "involved" because an NFL employee handed him the ball, it makes sense...and there's nothing "sinister" or "conspiracy" about this new "chapter II."
But...you're right re: the overall scandal...nothing has changed about deflategate.
It shows that crew wasn’t doing a particularly good job controlling the balls. Coupled with other leaks (like being no record of the PSIs from the pre-game inspection, and the half time measurements not being nearly as bad as the initial leak) it’s looking like if the balls were under-inflated they were submitted to the refs that way and not caught. Which really isn’t on the Pats, that’s what the inspection process is for, so all the “cheating” talk becomes extra silly.