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By Katie Reilly NEW YORK (Reuters) - One of the balls used by the New England Patriots in the NFL's 2015 AFC Championship game, in which the team was infamously found to have deflated footballs, sold for more than $40,000 in an auction on Saturday. The winning bidder paid $43,740 for the ball, which receiver Brandon LaFell had handed to a couple in the crowd after a Patriots touchdown in the third quarter of the game against the Indianapolis Colts in January. The National Football League (NFL) later fined the Patriots $1 million for deflating footballs in their 45-7 victory, a win that put them in the 2015 Super Bowl, where they then went on to defeat the Seattle Seahawks.
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