Bill Belichick said the Patriots "followed every rule" in preparing their footballs for last Sunday's AFC Championship Game during a lengthy news conference Saturday.

"I'm embarrassed to talk about the amount of time I've put into this relative to the other important challenge in front of us," B. Belichick

— Pro Football on ESPN (@ESPNNFL) January 24, 2015

Belichick followed that by making a reference to the movie "My Cousin Vinny," saying, "I'm not going to say I'm Mona Lisa Vito of the football world as she was in the car expertise area, all right?"

And Twitter reacted:

Wait, did Belichick just make a My Cousin Vinny reference? #yutes

— Rich Cimini (@RichCimini) January 24, 2015

Belichick just name-checked Marisa Tomei's character in My Cousin Vinny. THAT IS HOW MUCH HE HATES YOU. @TonyReali

— Pablo S. Torre (@PabloTorre) January 24, 2015

"My Cousin Vinny" was on last night. Can't be coincidence.

— T.J. Quinn (@TJQuinnESPN) January 24, 2015

Other reactions:

On Belichick the scientist:

Bill Nye The Science Guy Belichick. pic.twitter.com/s4XzqByifs

— SportsNation (@SportsNation) January 24, 2015

Bill Belichick is basically your seventh-grade substitute chemistry teacher right now

— Bill Barnwell (@billbarnwell) January 24, 2015

A live look at the Belichick press conference. pic.twitter.com/km9UdACJaf

— Arash Markazi (@ArashMarkazi) January 24, 2015

Translation of today's Belichick press conference in simple terms pic.twitter.com/US7fliHymk

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) January 24, 2015

On the insanity of the entire situation:

and, belichick's out there doing all this talking for something he, quite possibly, had nothing to do with. jeez, this is insane.

— Bomani Jones (@bomani_jones) January 24, 2015

Belichick: Did we get the balls from same place Jack got his beanstalk beans?! Do the laws of physics cease to exist with the Colts' balls?

— Jay Bilas (@JayBilas) January 24, 2015

This season started with the media pretending Michael Sam would be a distraction and ended with Belichick distracting the media with physics

— Bill Barnwell (@billbarnwell) January 24, 2015