The NFL moves heaven and earth a dozen times every Sunday of the season to get calls on the field exactly right.
But investigations and disciplinary matters?
Not so much. In those cases, close is apparently close enough.
At the end of a nearly four-month investigation into what's been dubbed "Deflategate" or "Ballghazi," NFL-appointed investigator Ted Wells arrived at — more or less — the same conclusions most of us did at the beginning.
A.) A Patriots' ball boy did it
B.) He had inside help
C.) Despite repeated denials, golden boy quarterback Tom Brady master-minded the whole thing
Being a lawyer, Wells needed 243 pages to say as much.