"Does anybody just make a mistake anymore?

No conspiracy theories. No JumbotronGate. No mysterious external forces. Just a kick that went awry. Simple as that.

The latter is what should have been the story after Sunday's AFC Championship Game in Foxboro, and really was, but this is 2012, the age of antisocial media and mass misinformation. This is The MisInformation Age, where everything is overblown and nothing is as it seems, even when it is exactly as it seems."