Brett Favre is backing Tom Brady on Deflategate scandal

Tom Brady doesn’t seem to have a whole lot of supporters on his Deflategate involvement, but he can count Brett Favre among them.

Apparently, once you enter the fraternal order of the quarterback, you will always have the support of your fellow brothers. That seems to hold true in even the most dire of circumstances. A fraternal brother will always be there to pick up another during their darkest hours.

Such was the case on Thursday, when former Green Bay Packers great Brett Favre rose to the occasion to defend Tom Brady with the latter in regards to his purported involvement in the infamous Deflategate scandal. Favre appeared on Fox News to discuss the issues facing Brady and the Patriots, and quickly asserted that he didn’t feel that Brady was necessarily cheating.

"“I don’t think by any stretch, in my opinion, that Tom was cheating. It sounds crazy. Historically, there’s been stealing of signs — and that goes to baseball and football. Just whatever advantage you could get. Lester Hayes putting Stickum on his arms for the Raiders. Pine tar. It’s just endless, the advantages that players would try to get.”"

Favre starts off the conversation innocuously enough, discussing his lack of a relationship with Tom Brady, outside of the general interest in following his career and the fact that he obviously competed against him in the past. Favre also goes on to say that he doesn’t know a ton about the specifics of the investigation into the Patriots alleged cheating.

Once through the niceties of praising Brady’s accomplishments on the field, Favre’s defense of Brady isn’t so much in terms of his involvement, or lack thereof, but rather on whether this really constituted cheating on the magnitude that it has been blown up to be. Favre even believes that other players have or would do it as needed.

"“I don’t know if Tom can honestly say he has completed more passes because of it. I think more than anything, it helped with the grip based on conditions. Not every game. And would other players do it? Sure, I have no reason to think otherwise.”"

It’s not necessarily a concrete support for Brady, but Favre’s statements are more of “are we really all that concerned about this” sort of defense. Additionally, Favre seemed most upset that what he deemed a minor issue was upstanding the Super Bowl itself.

For what it’s worth, Hayes was never suspended for his use of Stickum. It simply led to a rules change. That seemed to be message enough in 1981. In 2015, the magnitude of that message is apparently much greater.

(h/t Complex)

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