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2nd Team Getting Their First Start
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These are words that may resonate with the AG who does have the right to send a letter to the NFL telling the NFL to explain what they did. There are literally billions of gambling dollars at stake in the Super Bowl and no reasonable person can deny that the false information the NFL presented, would not have negatively affected the Patriots preparation. The first Casino in Massachusetts opened just today.
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I think the combined effect of the Gardi letter to the Patriots, and the "11 of 12 footballs 2 psi low" leak to Mortensen, forced the Patriots to scramble for an entire week. They had 14 days to prepare for the biggest sporting event of the year, and half of them were largely dedicated to investigating ball deflation and answering questions from the media--Belichick's comment about spending way more time on the science of footballs bears that out. Three press conferences at the end of the week, based on information that was demonstrably false, information that only people inside the NFL offices knew to be false. Questions to players over and over, both before and during SB week, couldn't have helped things.
The official statement launching the Wells investigation did nothing to deter those rumors, and while a leak to Peter King contradicted the Mortensen leak the cat was out of the bag and the NFL did nothing to shift the narrative from "11 of 12 footballs 2 psi under" to something more truthful and far less damaging in the publics view.
If Arlen Specter believes taping sidelines from an illegal location is worthy of Congress' time then I think the NFL ginning up a controversy prior to the biggest sporting and betting event of the year might be of interest to the AG.
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