It was inevitable—you, too, can wear a DeflateGate hat
By Phil Watson
The American entrepreneurial spirit is far from dead, as evidenced by an eBay seller who has a DeflateGate hat up for bids, if the price is right.
This was as inevitable as the sun rising in the east.
An eBay seller—midgegal39—has a completely unlicensed and unofficial DeflateGate hat for sale.
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The auction runs through 12:31 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday and as of this writing, there were two bids, with a leading bid of $20.49.
The seller is in Davison, Mich., and the item details invoke the current scandal involving one of the Super Bowl teams—the New England Patriots—and the allegations that footballs used in the AFC Championship were deliberately deflated to less than allowable air pressure under NFL rules.
This auction is for a floppy football shaped hat. It would be a perfect had for Deflategate. It would set any Seattle Seahawks fan apart from the rest! Shipping $5.95 for priority mail or over night (sic) $19.95. If you buy it now, I will ship to you free, next day shipping. This item come from a non-smoking house.
Earlier Monday, Busted Coverage was reporting a “buy it now” price of $99.99, but that has been deleted from the listing as of about 5 p.m. Eastern on Monday.
These would sell like crazy if mass produced. Slap a DeflateGate hashtag on the sides and it would do even better, I’d bet.
But about that whole “DeflateGate” thing … .
If the mainstream media ever looks in the mirror and wonders why it is floundering and losing public confidence (and advertising dollars), do you ever think that a shocking lack of original thinking ever comes up as a reason?
I’m old enough to have lived through the original Watergate scandal and each of the 52,105,942 scandals since then that the media have thrown the “-gate” suffix so cleverly onto.
For those of you who may not know or are too young to know, here’s the thing.
The reason the scandal was called “Watergate” in the first place is because Republican party operatives broke into the office of the Democratic National Committee, located inside the Watergate building.
This begs the question: Had the DNC office been located inside the Strevinovich building (a completely made-up name), would we be calling the deflated football thing Deflateovich?
The answer, sadly, is probably.
After all, that would be far easier than exercising even a modicum of independent thought, right?
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