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Joke. reporter: the nfl telling the four-time super bowl winner your actions clearly constitute conduct detrimental to the integrity of and public confidence in the game of professional football adding the footballs were intentionally deflated in an effort to provide a competitive advantage to tom brady. his agent firing back saying the discipline is ridiculous and has no legitimate basis. brady refused to address the league s report. i don t have any reaction. reporter: in the past he denied he cheated. is tom brady a cheater? i don t believe so. i feel like i ve always played within the rules. i would never do anything to break the rules. reporter: a bold punishment for one of the nfl s bright shining stars. the new england patriots also fined $1 million and two draft picks. it is huge for a team who does such a good job in the draft, it s going to affect the way they pick people and fill out their team through the draft being they re one of the best teams in doing it. ....
The sport. but the league as a whole is a joke. reporter: the nfl telling the four-time super bowl winner your actions clearly constitute conduct detrimental to the integrity of and public confidence in the game of professional football adding the footballs were intentionally deflated in an effort to provide a competitive advantage to tom brady. his agent firing back saying the discipline is ridiculous and has no legitimate basis. brady refused to address the league s report. i don t have any reaction. reporter: in the past he denied he cheated. is tom brady a cheater? i don t believe so. i feel like i ve always played within the rules. i would never do anything to break the rules. reporter: a bold punishment for one of the nfl s bright shining stars. the new england patriots also fined $1 million and two draft picks. it is huge for a team who does such a good job in the draft, it s going to affect the way they pick people and fill out their team through the draft being t ....
The balls? but even at a popular patriots hangout, there is some debate over the justice for the alleged crime. he s basically telling people you got to take the air out of the balls. if that s what he did, it s only probable that he did, the punishment definitely suits the crime i think. i totally understand that. but then aaron rodgers comes out plain as day and tells them that he overinflates the balls. a lot of fans point to the initial punishment for ray rice after this video showing him dragging his fiance out after it surfaced was suspended for two games. such an extreme penalty for air pressure? doesn t seem right. when more video surfaced rice was indefinitely suspended but that initial mild punishment makes pats fans feel like their team is being singled out after years of success. they re using him as an example. even though new england s support for brady is predictable, the punishment even ....
announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. good morning. i m marci gonzalez. reena ninan is on assignment. yes, and hello to you once again. marci is going to be here with us all week. marci is going to be here with us all week. great to be here. i m t.j. holmes. we have to start with deflategate, the punishment is in for arguably the biggest superstar in the nfl. quarterback tom brady. he got punishment and the new england patriots being punished. his agent saying there will be an appeal of brady s four-game suspension. the $1 million fine matches the largest fine ever handed down by the league. more now from abc s ryan smith. tom brady sacked, suspended for four games without pay. $1 million fine and the potential, what was it, the draft loss too? i mean, they re trying to make an example. it s really not fair. i love the team and i love ....
That s when the patriots visit the colts, ironically. the colts that game in the afc championship started this whole thing. the patriots also going to lose two draft picks, a first rounder next year and a fourth round pick the year after that. the team being fined $1 million and handing out the punishment, the nfl said every player must be held accountable for his actions, despite how accomplished he is. that s a point of view shared by at least one other nfl quarterback. i think it is about integrity and you have to follow the rules. if someone s breaking rules, i understand you know, you re going to get punished for it. the two patriot staffers whose text messages about deflating the footballs made up a large part of the deflategate report, they have been suspended indefinitely. no surprise here that fans of the reigning super bowl champs aren t so happy about brady s punishment. john atwater from our boston station got reaction from some of them in foxborough, massachusetts. ....