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I can't get over this story:
After fateful PSI report, NFL declined to give real numbers to Chris Mortensen
After fateful PSI report, NFL declined to give real numbers to Chris Mortensen
Regardless of how the false information made it to Mortensen (and it undoubtedly came from the league office), the league office refused to correct the record — despite moving swiftly to correct false information in many other contexts, as the New York Times now knows.
“I remember asking people in the league office, ‘Is there stuff we need to clarify?’” Mortensen told Bryan Curtis of The Ringer. “Basically, it was like, ‘Hey, let Ted Wells do his job.'”
That’s a damning indictment of the league’s role in creating the monster and then declining to kill it. Regardless of the work of Ted Wells, the NFL at all times had the PSI measurements at its disposal. The league could have, and should have, told the truth about the PSI numbers.