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Maybe it really wasn’t Anthony Hargrove’s voice saying, “Give me my money.”

...The seed was planted and fertilized when a dozen members of the media covering Monday’s appeal hearing received an invitation to witness an encore performance of former prosecutor Mary Jo White’s summary of evidence. The relevant excerpt from the transcript of the media session contains White’s explanation, comments from NFL Security chief Jeff Miller, comments from NFL spokesman Greg Aiello, and two of the members of the media — Peter King and Jim Varney.

White initially explained that the video contains Hargrove’s “voice and picture.” After the video was shown once to the members of the media, Aiello suggested that the media pay attention to Hargrove winking and smiling after hearing that Favre broke his leg. White later claims that Hargrove “smiles and winks and states, ‘Bobby, pay me my money.’”

Varney asks White, “How do you know it’s Hargrove’s voice?”

White, perhaps not recognizing in that moment the ironic link to a very common lawyer joke, says, “Because you can see his lips moving.”

But here’s the problem, and I didn’t notice this the first time I saw the video.

When Hargrove’s lips can be seen moving, his voice can’t be heard.

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