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Patriots Fan Flips the Bird in Photograph with Roger Goodell

This makes the whole mess of Deflategate worth it.

What happened when Patriots fan Jim Podanoffsky posed for a photo w/Goodell at the Jim Kelly Golf Tournament… pic.twitter.com/VzIaBTyDG0
— Only In Boston (@OnlyInBOS) June 7, 2016

Deflategate has been the single dumbest thing everto happen in sports, and somehow it just keeps on rolling along week after week with decisions, appeals, amicus briefs, the whole bit. It is exhausting and terrible and embarrassing for everyone involved.

It is now entirely worth all the effort, thanks to this one picture.

A Boston general interest Twitter account posted this beautiful photograph of a Pats fan with the very Pats Fan name of Jim Podanoffsky posing for a picture with the hapless NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell. Patriots fans obviously consider Goodell the Judas to Touchdown Tommy's Jesus after the whole witch-hunt and suspension, so of course this guy has no love lost for him. The picture was apparently taken at Jim Kelly's golf tournament yesterday and it really is a masterpiece. While Goodell presents his best either trying-to-poop or trying-not-to-poop face to the camera, our buddy Jim throws one arm around his shoulder and flips him the bird, flashing the shit-eatingest grin you've ever seen.

Thank you, Jim. Whenever I feel the life drain out of me because someone is talking about PSI and the Ideal Gas Law, I will have this picture to look. Just look at those goddamned balloons rising above his head. It is [kisses fingertips with a flourish] bellissimo.

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