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Related: About this forumSeems like Jets fans are rather enjoying Deflategate
(WaPo) New England should be basking in the glow of a Super Bowl title, but instead, the team and its fans are dealing with the fallout from the DeflateGate report, including a $1 million fine and loss of draft picks, as well as a four-game suspension for quarterback Tom Brady. But it comes as no surprise that whatever pains the Patriots is a sheer delight for Jets fans.
Some New Yorkers have already begun marketing T-shirts with Bradys image and the message, See You Later, Deflator. And no less a figure than Suzanne Johnson, the wife of the Jets owner, tweeted out a smiling-face emoji with a link to an article about the Patriots punishments (she later deleted the tweet, but still).
Tuesday brought news of still more Gang Green schadenfreude. 12 billboards have appeared around New Jersey, all of them making fun of Tom Shady, and leaving no doubt as to the loyalties of those involved. .............(more)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2015/05/12/jets-fans-paid-for-a-dozen-tom-shady-billboards/
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Seems like Jets fans are rather enjoying Deflategate (Original Post)
marmar
May 2015
OP
Republican Stepdad is more of a Giants fan, but he hates all things New England
KamaAina
May 2015
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trumad
(41,692 posts)1. We all have our crazies.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)2. There are four "Jets!" after J-E-T-S, dammit!
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)3. Republican Stepdad is more of a Giants fan, but he hates all things New England
on behalf of the Yankees. He chimes in, "It's too bad that Beleshit wasn't implicated"!
hughee99
(16,113 posts)4. Yes, unfortunately for Jets fans, though, Deflategate doesn't do anything for their own
dumpster fire.
mythology
(9,527 posts)5. They did get rid of Rex Ryan
The new guy pretty much has to be an improvement.