I was watching some of the Hall of Fame induction ceremony last night and saw the same thing, that the blurb about Williams and his comments would show up every couple of minutes as part of the crawl rotation.
I know some people say Patriots fans keep this story going by reacting to this stuff, but when the NFLN features this story in their crawl during their most significant "live" event since the draft, I don't think it's Patriots fans that are keeping this story alive. I'm not saying the NFLN should have completely ignored it, but the story came out Friday afternoon. It's not a new topic. It's not a new take on the subject. Williams isn't a prominent or well-known player. Why keep running it on Saturday evening, especially when I didn't see any mention of the HOF game in the crawl (No basic game info, no coaches comments, no news on how long the QBs would play, who was being held out due to injury, etc.)?