Patriots fan flies 'Jet back to N.Y.' banner over Roger Goodell's vacation home

When the NFL asked Maine's Scarborough Police Department to keep an eye on commissioner Roger Goodell's $6.5 million coastal vacation home, "the shield" probably didn't anticipate an aerial attack.

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Thankfully, it wasn't anything of Blitzkrieg proportions, but Biddeford, Maine native Richard Pate intended some shock and awe when he ponied up for a local aviation outfit to fly a banner reading "COMM. GOODELL JET HOME TO N.Y." over Goodell's home in nearby Prouts Neck on Saturday and Sunday.

The message wasn't so much subliminal as it was literal, suggesting New Englanders would prefer the commissioner spend his time at NFL headquarters in New York than in Patriots country, what with Goodell's ruling to uphold Tom Brady's four-game suspension in the deflate-gate scandal last week.

The Jets pun in Pate's aerial ad also appears to be a shot at @JetsFanMedia, which funded the floyver of a "CHEATERS LOOK UP" banner at Patriots training camp. As the 69-year-old told Portland's WCSH-TV, "The irony is I don't remember the Jets winning many Super Bowls, maybe one back in the '60s."

While Pate suggested his hiring of Screaming Eagle Aviation pilot John Apte was worth every penny, the Press Herald could not confirm whether Goodell was actually at his vacation home this weekend — something Pate may have wanted to confirm before spending the estimated $450 an hour for the ad.

Either way, at least nobody was hurt in the making of this drama. As the pilot said, "Nobody shot at me."

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Ben Rohrbach

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