Patriots' White House visit has Obama's deflate-gate joke, no Tom Brady

The customary trip to the White House for the NFL champions came on Thursday. Brady, the future Hall-of-Fame quarterback, didn't go because of what was described as a "prior family commitment," according to CSNNE.

The Patriots beat the Seahawks in one of the most exciting Super Bowls ever. It was also a Super Bowl that became known for the controversy in the lead-up to the game, the "deflate-gate" issue after a reported 11 of 12 Patriots' game balls were found to be under-inflated. That issue (which the NFL is still investigating ... yes, it hasn't wrapped up yet) infuriated the Patriots before the Super Bowl, but it didn't stop Obama from making a joke about it.

"I usually tell a bunch of jokes at these events, but with the Patriots in town I was worried that 11 out of 12 of them would fall flat," Obama said to uncomfortable laughter and groans from the Patriots players and coaches behind him.

Obama followed that up by giving the Patriots credit for keeping focus during the "biggest media circus of the sports year."

Obama had other jokes. He joked that he told tight end Rob Gronkowski to keep his shirt on during the ceremony. He joked about coach Bill Belichick wearing a suit instead of his usual customized hoodie.

"I'm particularly grateful that Coach decided to dress up today," Obama said. "We had some scissors in case he wanted to cut the sleeves off. Formal hoodies are allowed."

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Just for the record, for those of you who haven't been following deflategate after the initial hate pile-on, turns out 1 ball was under-inflated and that one was given to the Pats employee to put into the game by a former "unanmed" NFL exec who was running a scam and supposedly selling footballs that were used in NFL games to raise money for "charity." The ref noticed the ball didn't have a red dot signifying it was approved, so it all started from there. Why haven't you heard about this? Well, because the NFL looks like idiots so whoever was leaking the lies and distortions was told to cut that sh*t out.