The news that the NFL has zeroed in on a Patriots locker room attendant as the key person of interest in the Deflategate controversy has been met with silence from the league office.
After Jay Glazer of FOX Sports broke the latest development in the ongoing controversy, PFT reached out to the league office for a response. The NFL’s response was only that “we are not commenting on any aspects of the investigation.”
The very existence of an ongoing investigation gives the league an excuse to provide “no comment” answers. That may be one of the reasons that the league hired Ted Wells to undergo a thorough and deliberate investigation. The league would much prefer to be talking about the Super Bowl this week, and so all Deflategate questions will surely be met with similar “no comment” answers from Commissioner Roger Goodell and everyone else at the league office.
But just because the league won’t talk doesn’t mean there won’t continue to be developments. Glazer’s report that the league has interviewed the Patriots locker room attendant, and that he allegedly took footballs from the officials’ locker room after they had been inspected and approved and brought them to another area of the stadium before the game started, will have people talking at Media Day.
Even if the league office has nothing to say.
