That’s all it took, by our math (give or take a minute or two), for the time that elapsed between Fox’s Jay Glazer issuing his report on Sunday that the New York Giants suspected the Pittsburgh Steelers of using underinflated footballs in Week 13 and when the NFL responded with a statement intending to douse the story before it ever became one.
“The officiating game ball procedures were followed and there were no chain of command issues,” the statement read. “All footballs were in compliance and no formal complaint was filed by the Giants with our office.