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The NFL determined the San Diego Chargers did not cheat when they used a towel with a tacky-like substance during their Monday night game against the Broncos on Oct. 15.
The league discovered many clubs were using the towel. The Chargers were fined $20,000, though, for not completely cooperating with officials when asked for the towel during the game. And no team can use the sticky towel from now on.
Whatever. I’m all for the slap on the wrist.
All the gouging, scratching, tackling, blocking, head-butting, cutting, grabbing and high-speed collisions that goes on in football, all the sticky gloves, skin-tight undergarments and eye black — and a sticky towel gives a team a competitive advantage? Much was made about something that doesn’t mean very much.
