‘SNL’ Tackles the New England Patriots’ Deflate-Gate

SNL Spoofs New England Patriots' Deflate-Gate
Bobby Moynihan as Dougie Spoons and Taran Killam as Tom Brady during the “Patriots Press Conference Cold Open” on ‘SNL’ (Photo by: Dana Edelson / NBC)

New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick (Beck Bennett) throws quarterback Tom Brady (Taran Killam) under the bus, placing the blame for Deflate-Gate squarely on the pretty boy QB’s shoulders in the cold opening of Saturday Night Live‘s January 24, 2015 episode hosted by Blake Shelton. And then Brady plays dumb, claiming not even to know footballs contained air or that they could be inflated or deflated, passing the buck to the assistant equipment co-manager (Bobby Moynihan).

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