More reading between the lines, always dangerous - but one read on it: if the NFL was tipped off in November, didn't tell the Patriots anything and then measured the balls at half-time in the AFCCG - that's not an investigation, that's an ambush. Sheriff Goodell will have his guns blazing. If this is the case, this also flies in the face of the "this is bad for the NFL, the NFL doesn't want this to be an issue" stuff (yes,
@Rob0729 ) I'm looking at you again. They could've settled this in November, or told the Pats to knock it off at the time.
That's a lot of conjecture right there, but a million pages in, figured what difference does it make.