Somebody got their games mixed up. You know where we could have really used a laser pointer on Sunday?
IN NEW ORLEANS!
I’ve seen PI’s called for infinitely less. What a joke. NFL refs are laughable. #Saints #Rams pic.twitter.com/P0nRJNyFW6
— Jordan Schultz (@Schultz_Report) January 20, 2019
Glad to see we’re still doing that whole “using your helmet as a weapon” thing. Good job, good effort.
Anyway, after we all had our nerves battered and fried all the way through overtime Sunday night, seeing the words “Patriots” and “NFL investigation” in the same sentence on Monday is usually not great for the ol’ blood pressure, but it turns out the league may actually be looking into something done *to* the Pats this time.
I know, right???
Kansas City reporter William Joy and his camera team caught a couple pretty intriguing shots of what looks like someone pointing a laser pointer at a few different Patriots players during the game, and by “intriguing” of course I mean “infuriating”.
Our photographer, Turner Twyman, caught someone pointing what appears to be a laser pointer in Tom Brady's face last night. Play between the "muff" that wasn't and Sorensen int. @NFL, @Patriots and @Chiefs all told me they weren't aware of the incident. pic.twitter.com/ejWBQ6i64C
— William Joy (@WilliamKMBC) January 21, 2019
It happened one other time that we've seen on a pass to Hogan. #Chiefs #Patriots pic.twitter.com/27QkYf0m9P
— William Joy (@WilliamKMBC) January 21, 2019
We found it one other time on the deep pass to Gronk in the 4th that set up the go-ahead TD. The NFL has a video of a similar identical incident two years ago: https://t.co/ut217aEhjt
— William Joy (@WilliamKMBC) January 22, 2019
So just in a few key situations in the final moments of a conference championship game, cool cool cool cool cool.
So while everyone involved - the Chiefs, the Patriots and the NFL - said they weren’t aware of it at the time our pal Will posted those, it didn’t take long before the league decided to check things out a bit closer. Crazy how they can get stuff done so fast when they actually decide they want to, right?
The NFL is “looking into” a report of a laser beam flashed in Tom Brady’s face during crunch time of last night’s thrilling playoff game against the Kansas City Chiefs.
The green-tinted beam flickered off Brady’s upper body and face twice, video clips tweeted by a reporter from KMBC show.
Brian McCarthy, NFL vice president of communications, told the Herald tonight the league is “looking into the report of the laser beam” and NFL security is taking the lead.
“It didn’t affect the game, as far as we know,” McCarthy added.
This is where we have to do the mandatory disclaimer that every fanbase has some fans that are the absolute worst, but this is the kind of stuff that makes everybody look bad.
We’ll keep you guys posted if anything actually comes up with the NFL’s investigating, but short of finding a video of someone holding their arm out going PEW PEW PEW PEW, it’s hard to see them realistically getting anything else about this.
In the meantime, while a lot of us Patriots fans and New Englanders have a well-deserved reputation for being cocky at best and...let’s say, the jerk store’s all-time best seller at worst, let’s all make sure we’re not this guy.