Ben Affleck completely loses it over Deflategate on Bill Simmons' Any Given Wednesday

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published 23 June 2016

Ben Affleck had some feelings about Deflategate that he, uh, needed to get off his chest last night during the debut of Bill Simmons' Any Given Wednesday:

"Deflategate is the ultimate bulls--- f---ing outrage of sports, ever. It's so f---ing stupid that I can't believe it. You realize, they gave [Tom Brady] a suspension for a quarter of the regular season, which would be the equivalent of suspending a baseball player for 40 f---ing days, which is what they do when you get busted taking steroids. And by the way, if the NFL had real testing, if it really knew how to test for steroids, HGH, there'd be no f---ing NFL." [Any Given Wednesday]

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Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.

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