Ok, I'm trying to wrap my head around all this.
Here's my understanding and correct me if I'm wrong:
League Official #1 got caught trying to steal a ball and tried to cover it up by passing off different ball (a "K ball”). He gave the ball to Jim McNally who is a Patriots locker room attendant. McNally then gave the ball to another League Official (Greg Yvette) to be introduced into the game. Yvette noticed that the ball didn’t have the proper markings and notified another official. Did I get that right?
If so, that still doesn’t explain McNally’s part in this. Why didn’t McNally notice that it was a “K ball” to begin with? After all, he has several years’ experience. Also, as the first article mentions, it sounds like McNally wasn’t following procedure because “officials' locker room attendants don't typically have ballhandling responsibilities during NFL games."
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