Bill Simmons Is Taking Shots At ESPN On Twitter Over DeflateGate Reporting

Now that Bill Simmons is not returning to ESPN he doesn’t have to hold back when criticizing the company or the NFL.

Simmons’ former employer, ESPN, is currently getting a lot of heat for running a Chris Mortensen report right after the AFC Championship game that said 11 of the 12 footballs used by the New England Patriots were underinflated by two pounds per square inch each. The Wells Report later disproved this report but neither ESPN or Mortensen retracted it at any point.

On Tuesday, Simmons seemed take pleasure that ESPN was getting shit on by every media outlet

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Simmons then went on to mock ESPN/ Chris Mortensen with a series of sarcastic tweets.

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It seems that Simmons’ trolling worked. An hour after his tweets went live Mortensen finally deleted his erroneous DeflateGate tweet from six months ago.

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Brobible sports editor. Jorge is a Miami native and lifelong Heat fan. He has been covering the NBA, MLB and NFL professionally for almost 10 years, specializing in digital media.