Patriots owner Kraft says will not appeal NFL's 'Deflategate' penalty

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New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft said on Tuesday he will "reluctantly" accept rather than appeal the penalty the National Football League handed the reigning Super Bowl champions for the team's role in the "Deflategate" scandal. The NFL fined the club a record $1 million and forced the Patriots to give up two draft choices for purposely deflating footballs used in the team's 45-7 playoff victory over the Indianapolis Colts that put New England in the Super Bowl. "I don't want to continue the rhetoric that's gone on for the last four months," Kraft told a news conference at an NFL owners meeting in San Francisco.

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