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For about ten pages of the "report," the mustache takes the opportunity argue that McNally's restroom break was a major break from protocol. Despite that two Patriots employees swore that they had seen McNally walk the balls to the field unaccompanied by referees many times in the past, Wells, ever the pessimist (except when information comes out that hurts the Patriots) builds his case by interviewing a bunch of game officials. The absurdity is that he is asking a bunch of rotating NFL officials about Jim McNally, an employee who they probably don't even know, considering they may be on assignment at Gillette once a year at most. Their testimony that they also can't recall McNally walking the balls out by himself is yet another smoke and mirrors tactic in this dishonest report. Like most of the refs and NFL officials in this story, they sure seem to claim there are strict protocols when every piece of objective evidence suggests otherwise. It's almost like they were given the rulebook in advance and asked if they correctly do their jobs.
Regardless, Wells builds and builds the case to discredit McNally (yes, McNally presumably used the word "urinal" to describe a "toilet"- what an unreliable SOB.) The major focus though, is this: McNally violated protocol, which has never been done before, not in Walter Anderson's 20 years in the league. Anderson is conveniently praised for his honesty and integrity while McNally is portrayed as a liar.
Anderson tells Wells that McNally took the balls and that this was shocking to everyone since it has never done before. He emphasizes that he ALWAYS accompanies McNally to the field and supervises the balls and that McNally ALWAYS asks for permission to bring out the balls. McNally says the opposite, that it is kind of a loose understanding and not a big deal.
Except, after Wells sides with Anderson and concludes that McNally violated a sacred protocol - presumably to do something shady this one time - there is another reference to McNally when describing the events.
It happens when the weasel, Mike Kensil, has already concluded the Patriots have cheated, and just as halftime begins, he looks for the balls that he is now going to measure (and misrepresent to the media.)
It is odd, because at this point you certainly would assume he would find Walt Anderson, since the protocol is ALWAYS that the balls are supervised by Walt, the head ref. After all, Walt said so and the report proves it. So, just find Walt right, because he would be either carrying the balls himself or walking in lockstep with a Patriots equipment man, as the balls are brought to the locker room, thus sticking to this ironclad protocol.
Here is what happens, directly taken from steaming pile of crap that is generously called a "report":
Kensil lost sight of the Patriots game balls at the beginning of halftime, so he walked to the Patriots locker room to make sure they were not there. He asked Berj Najarian, a Patriots employee who functions as Coach Belichick's chief of staff, to check inside the Patriots locker room for the balls. After Najarian went inside the locker room to look for the balls, Kensil saw McNally carrying them from the field and told the Patriots security representative stationed at the door of the Patriots locker room to inform Najarian that he had found what he needed. This is consistent with security footage that shows Kensil near the door that leads to the Patriots locker room at 8:28:25 PM, and McNally turning the corner at the top of the tunnel and heading towards the Officials Locker Room with the ball bags approximately 15 seconds later.
I'm sorry, but weren't we just hammered in the head, for the previous ten pages, that McNally's "break from protocol" was absolutely unheard of and suspicious, and that Walt Anderson always accompanies McNally with the balls? Then why is McNally alone with the balls, while Anderson has already left the field and in the official's locker room, expecting that McNally will, unsupervised and without "express permission", dropping them off to the refs? I don't see anything in the story about Anderson running around screaming if anyone has seen the balls, frantically searching for them. Why? Because this is normal protocol, a loose understanding and minimum security of the footballs, which has always been the norm, consistent with McNally's testimony.
This brief description of events completely destroys the entire trumped up argument that Wells makes previously, which is that the only way McNally would be alone with the balls is by deception and breaking protocol, something that Anderson has "never" had happen prior to that game.
An investigator who isn't an evil assh0le working for Satan's redheaded stepbrother might have asked Anderson: "If you claim it is always ironclad protocol for McNally to wait for you and have you walk the balls with him, then why was he again alone with the balls at halftime, and why didn't you notice or care?"
Regardless, Wells builds and builds the case to discredit McNally (yes, McNally presumably used the word "urinal" to describe a "toilet"- what an unreliable SOB.) The major focus though, is this: McNally violated protocol, which has never been done before, not in Walter Anderson's 20 years in the league. Anderson is conveniently praised for his honesty and integrity while McNally is portrayed as a liar.
Anderson tells Wells that McNally took the balls and that this was shocking to everyone since it has never done before. He emphasizes that he ALWAYS accompanies McNally to the field and supervises the balls and that McNally ALWAYS asks for permission to bring out the balls. McNally says the opposite, that it is kind of a loose understanding and not a big deal.
Except, after Wells sides with Anderson and concludes that McNally violated a sacred protocol - presumably to do something shady this one time - there is another reference to McNally when describing the events.
It happens when the weasel, Mike Kensil, has already concluded the Patriots have cheated, and just as halftime begins, he looks for the balls that he is now going to measure (and misrepresent to the media.)
It is odd, because at this point you certainly would assume he would find Walt Anderson, since the protocol is ALWAYS that the balls are supervised by Walt, the head ref. After all, Walt said so and the report proves it. So, just find Walt right, because he would be either carrying the balls himself or walking in lockstep with a Patriots equipment man, as the balls are brought to the locker room, thus sticking to this ironclad protocol.
Here is what happens, directly taken from steaming pile of crap that is generously called a "report":
Kensil lost sight of the Patriots game balls at the beginning of halftime, so he walked to the Patriots locker room to make sure they were not there. He asked Berj Najarian, a Patriots employee who functions as Coach Belichick's chief of staff, to check inside the Patriots locker room for the balls. After Najarian went inside the locker room to look for the balls, Kensil saw McNally carrying them from the field and told the Patriots security representative stationed at the door of the Patriots locker room to inform Najarian that he had found what he needed. This is consistent with security footage that shows Kensil near the door that leads to the Patriots locker room at 8:28:25 PM, and McNally turning the corner at the top of the tunnel and heading towards the Officials Locker Room with the ball bags approximately 15 seconds later.
I'm sorry, but weren't we just hammered in the head, for the previous ten pages, that McNally's "break from protocol" was absolutely unheard of and suspicious, and that Walt Anderson always accompanies McNally with the balls? Then why is McNally alone with the balls, while Anderson has already left the field and in the official's locker room, expecting that McNally will, unsupervised and without "express permission", dropping them off to the refs? I don't see anything in the story about Anderson running around screaming if anyone has seen the balls, frantically searching for them. Why? Because this is normal protocol, a loose understanding and minimum security of the footballs, which has always been the norm, consistent with McNally's testimony.
This brief description of events completely destroys the entire trumped up argument that Wells makes previously, which is that the only way McNally would be alone with the balls is by deception and breaking protocol, something that Anderson has "never" had happen prior to that game.
An investigator who isn't an evil assh0le working for Satan's redheaded stepbrother might have asked Anderson: "If you claim it is always ironclad protocol for McNally to wait for you and have you walk the balls with him, then why was he again alone with the balls at halftime, and why didn't you notice or care?"
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. So did the NFL pay off Walt? Or was it just the Pats who payed off Mac and JJ 
