A Reporter Stole Brady's Jersey, but the NFL Will Continue to Only Worry About Barstool
Tom Brady was face-to-face w/ the alleged jersey thief Mauricio Ortega in ’05 — yrs before SB 51. Here’s the photo. https://t.co/RhkMTbF92x pic.twitter.com/E3dTXYSsIN
— michael babcock (@michaeljb1) March 20, 2017
#Deportes Periodista alcanzaría 99 años de prisión por robo de #JerseyDeBrady; @FBI encontró playera en posesión de #MauricioOrtega pic.twitter.com/x9dp3shkE0
— Canal TVC (@canalTVC) March 21, 2017
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PFT – With the Case of the Missing Super Bowl Jersey(s) now cracked, the NFL should ask itself what can or can’t be done to prevent another rogue journalist from parlaying locker-room access into an opportunity to steal stuff. For now, however, don’t look for an overreaction.
Per a source with knowledge of the situation, sweeping changes to media access to locker rooms are not expected in the aftermath of the theft of Tom Brady’s last two Super Bowl jerseys, and the possible theft of Von Miller’s helmet after Super Bowl 50.
Way to handle the situation, NFL. Changes? We don’t need need any changes. We don’ gotta show you any stinkin’ changes. Martin Mauricio Ortega Camberos is running around in multiple Super Bowl winning locker rooms, taking selfies with champion quarterbacks and klepting enough priceless merchandise to make Hank Shrader’s wife squirt, but Priority One is to make sure they don’t overreact.
And don’t think for a hot second there’s no way they could have know that this Mexican bandit member of the international press was stealing stuff. Translated from the Mexican news site The Maximo Avance, Martin Mauricio Ortega Camberos doesn’t just have a name like a Three Amigos villain, he’s a goddamned memorabilia collector who was going around blatantly breaking NFL rules and journalistic ethics in the lead up to Super Bowl LI:
During the week of the Super Bowl [Ortega] had several products that had to be signed, something not allowed under the policies of means of the NFL. A helmet with MVP’s of all super bowls, excluding two, whose value was more than $15,000. … Among the products he had was a book signed by Emmitt Smith and a sweater by Kurt Warner.
Again, nice going, NFL. Spend all your time Super Bowl Week checking inside the trash barrels and behind every door for any sign of guys from the country’s most popular site who might show up and do something funny that will entertain your target audience. And if some “journalist” happens to grab a half a million dollars worth of merch right out from under your noses, well that’s a price you’ll just have to pay to keep the Stoolies out.
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Not to make everything be about Deflategate, but just to bring Deflategate into this: These are the people who ran that clown show of an investigation. Who decided that swift and draconian changes had to be made to pregame procedures so no scurrilous cheater like that notorious Tom Brady could defraud the integrity of the game ever again. Who insisted on severe measures to make sure the footballs would be protected from now on. And then had the officials leave the game balls in a Boston hotel room and never released the PSI data of the balls they supposedly tested. Yes, this is a bad episode for the Mexican football press. But it’s even worse for anyone who still trusts that the NFL know what the fuck it’s doing.