I figured it was a mistake. Give it a day, and the correction will come.
Whoops, the Butkus Foundation would announce, we sent out an incorrect press release on Monday.
Hey, technical problems happen. Especially when Bill Belichick is on your selection committee.
But then a spokesman for the group of football experts responsible for selecting the nation's top college linebacker confirmed it actually meant to leave Mizzou's Kentrell Brothers off its list of 10 semifinalists for the Butkus Award.
A mistake is forgivable. This is borderline fraudulent.
Fifty people who eat, sleep and breathe football believe there are 10 college linebackers better than Brothers, the face of one of the nation's most imposing defenses.