Chris Mortensen retires from ESPN after 33 years
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It was good that he got through his health issues and was able to be back on the job
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Chris Mortensen Still Stands By His False Deflategate Report
Mortensen continues to double down on his inaccurate story that 11 of 12 Patriots footballs in the AFC Title Game were two pounds per square inch below the limit, as he insisted in a radio interview Thursday the league didn't use him to peddle false information.
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On Jan. 20, Mortensen tweeted 11 of 12 Patriots footballs from the AFC Championship Game were two pounds per square inch under the league-mandated limit. Deflategate was the lead story on all three national newscasts the very next day.
When investigator Ted Wells' so-called independent report was released in May, the actual PSI numbers were published. As it turns out, only one Patriots football on one of the two gages was two PSI below the threshold. Mortensen got the story wrong, but yet didn't delete his tweet until early August. The original story on ESPN .com still contains the wrong PSI data in its second paragraph.
The issue with Mortensen isn't that he reported false information. Sometimes sources mislead reporters. But the problem is how he's conducted himself in the story's aftermath. Instead of swiftly correcting his inaccurate report, Mortensen has doubled down. That act continued Thursday on an Arizona-based sports talk radio show.