A football involved in the Deflategate scandal involving the New England Patriots, their quarterback Tom Brady, and the National Football League (NFL), has sold at auction, fetching $43,739.99, according to The Washington Post.
The ball was used in the 2014 AFC Championship game between the New England Patriots and the Indanapolis colts. Tom Brady handed the ball off to LeGarrette Blount in the third quarter of the game, and Blount carried it into the endzone.
At the completion of the touchdown, Blount dropped the ball in celebration, where by it was picked up by Patriot’s receiver Brandon LaFell and delivered to a fan in the stands, now known to be Laura Nichols.
Nichols chose to hand the ball over to the auction house Lelands.com, to handle the sale of the ball. The ball was acutioned Saturday, with a ereserve of $25,000. After just five bids, the auction concluded, and the Deflategate memorabilia sold for less than the anticipated six figures, but for far more than what Nichols paid for it - nothing.
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“Although the balls were reinflated to the proper levels for the second half, the report by Ted Wells commissioned by the NFL said that they were in fact the same balls used during the first half,” said Darren Rovell of ESPN.com, in a report in Bleacher Report. “So while it’s unclear exactly how much that particular ball was used in the first half, it was in the rotation of deflated Patriot’s footballs. The Wells report cited the testing of four balls after the game.”
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