FOLKS!!!!!
Mort Lied Today!!!!!!
15 minutes ago, Florio posted this:
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...y-still-has-the-11-of-12-footballs-falsehood/
".....Courtesy of the good folks at Deadspin.com, who haven’t ripped me recently but, oh, it’s coming,
comes an intriguing nugget that cuts against the notion that Mortensen changed his story from “11-0f-12 footballs were two pounds under the 12.5 PSI minimum” to “11-0f-12 footballs were significantly underinflated.” Apparently, his official story hasn’t changed.
From the
item posted at ESPN.com on January 21, 2015, the first sentence: “The NFL has found that 11 of the New England Patriots’ 12 game balls were inflated significantly below the NFL’s requirements, league sources involved and familiar with the investigation of Sunday’s AFC Championship Game told ESPN.”
And then the second sentence, still present in the story and not removed: “The investigation found the footballs were inflated 2 pounds per square inch below what’s required by NFL regulations during the Pats’ 45-7 victory over the Indianapolis Colts, according to sources.” (The “below what’s required” phrase should pull the plug on efforts to explain away the erroneous information given to Mortensen as referring perhaps not to the balls being two pounds below the 12.5 PSI minimum but two pounds below the 13.5 PSI maximum.)
Then there’s the original tweet,
which is still live, and which could be removed at any time by pressing the three little dots and then selecting “Delete Tweet........”
