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Deflategate: Best part of the Tom Brady press conference? The MEMES!

Published Jan. 22, 2015 5:02 p.m. ET

Sid Saraf

Tom Brady and Bill Belichick each got their turns at the podium on Thursday.

The New England Patriots' star quarterback and head coach gave the media their versions of the "Deflategate" controversy. No big shock, but both of them denied having any involvement with under-inflating footballs during the AFC championship game.

What was the best part of all this? Was it a sense of closure? Was it the fact we got two seemingly believable explanations? Nope.

It's the MEMES!

One man went with Pinocchio:

Who did this pic.twitter.com/hmOQFkpv3k
— lindsey ok (@lindseyyok) January 22, 2015

Rich Eisen channeled Allen Iverson:

@FOXSports @RealSidSaraf pic.twitter.com/JiVyAt9fwX
— Obsessed with Scott (@ScottMankins1) January 22, 2015

Did you ever see "Love Actually"?

Not a game....RT @JOEL9ONE: We talking about PSIs right now.... PSIs man pic.twitter.com/4m60rFDlqS
— Rich Eisen (@richeisen) January 22, 2015

How about "Toy Story"?

bless you, internet RT @anchorlines: pic.twitter.com/ojbUdFtVmA
— Lana Berry (@Lana) January 22, 2015

"Saturday Night Live"?

twitter right now in a nutshell pic.twitter.com/8ZEzcOKzdn
— Seth Fiegerman (@sfiegerman) January 22, 2015

Birdies!

Tom Brady giving a press conference right now. pic.twitter.com/SqSari3nM7
— Brian Ries (@moneyries) January 22, 2015

Nothing is complete without a "Simpsons" reference:

"TOM TOM TOM TOM TOM" pic.twitter.com/2gMpkFY9z2
— Jill (@six15eleven) January 22, 2015

This made us LOL:

Belichick didn't know, Brady didn't do it. We just happened to pick 11 footballs with a slow leak http://t.co/ThJCmYWPCO
— CJ Fogler (@cjzero) January 22, 2015

So did this: