This is crazy on a number of levels, but during ESPN's Super Bowl Countdown discussion on DeflateGate, Tom Jackson said he had colleagues who received death threats as a result of the controversy. He also said extra security was added for these unnamed individuals. I don't even know where to begin, but there is this: every time—every single time—you think this controversy has reached peak absurdity, it somehow gets even nuttier.Cris Carter also made sense of most of this stuff: it's not important, but it looks bad for both Belichick and Brady and will follow them forever.It seems like Jackson was offering his bit of information as an example of how badly the NFL has bungled this whole thing, and he's also miffed that it's become a joke. Obviously, no one has been joking about folks receiving death threats, but this whole controversy absolutely is a joke and it absolutely is an example of how the NFL has bungled many, many things this year. And with the Super Bowl upon us, and media saturation up to our eyes, no one is talking about those many other bungled moments—Ray Rice, Goodell making shit up as he goes along, Greg Hardy, Adrian Peterson, CTE—we're just talking about this stupid one.[ESPN]