Deflategate jokes might not be so funny anymore to Tom Brady’s new fanbase.
Time to delete the old tweets.
But one science fair project — titled, “Is Tom Brady a Cheater?” — may be a little harder to get out of for one 11-year-old Buccaneers fan.
Ace Davis went viral last year for his project that tried to prove deflated footballs gave quarterbacks an advantage, which Brady was infamously accused of doing in 2015. Now, Brady is the quarterback on his favorite team after signing a two-year, $50 million contract with the Buccaneers.
“I don’t think that Tom Brady was all in it,” Davis told ESPN. “But Bill Belichick, I think he made up the plan, and then Tom Brady went through with it. I think it was more on Bill Belichick than Tom Brady. But Tom Brady, he has a bigger name.”
Brady was eventually suspended four games and the Patriots were fined $1 million and lost two draft picks, including a first-rounder. During the fallout of Deflategate, Brady was reportedly upset that he did not get enough support from Belichick and owner Robert Kraft, just one of the episodes that may have led to Brady’s departure after 20 years with the franchise.
Davis’ project, meanwhile, came to the conclusion that the least-inflated footballs traveled the farthest. His mom reportedly told him the project would come back to haunt him one day. That day has arrived.
“It was just to make Ace interested in science and to do something he would actually enjoy,” Jennie Davis, Ace’s mom, told ESPN. “I think it’s funny. But I do believe both my husband and my son are kind of excited. Now they’re just trying to work on their apology.”