ESPN Apparently Trolls Patriots With 'Pumped Up' Tweet
BOSTON (CBS) – Pumped up. Get it?
Plenty of Twitter users noticed a not so subtle jab sent out by the official NFL on ESPN account on Sunday in advance of the Patriots traveling to Indianapolis to take on the Colts for the first time since the now infamous AFC Championship Game that sparked DeflateGate.
It's NFL Sunday Week 6.
— NFL on ESPN (@ESPNNFL) October 18, 2015
GET PUMPED UP.
(????AP/Rick Osentoski) pic.twitter.com/lwfPh77jW9
Oh ESPN, you wisenheimers! https://t.co/mpptfBvdAP
— Toucher and Rich (@Toucherandrich) October 18, 2015
It's not the first deflated football joke of the last nine months.
Even on Friday, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence took to Twitter to make one of his own.
It was ESPN's Chris Mortensen who reported in January that 11 of the 12 footballs provided by the Patriots in the AFC Championship Game were underinflated a full 2 PSI under the legal limit, a fact that was eventually proved to be inaccurate.