Potentially embarrassing snaps of the NFL adding hashmarks to the field hours before the game are not quite the controversy some thought.
League officials were photographed and recorded by prominent media adding hashmarks over the NFL and Super Bowl logos. It was not a mishap, though, just the NFL’s Super Bowl Sunday standard procedure, the NFL said.
“The hashmarks were freshened, which is done every year in the hours prior to the Super Bowl,” the league said in a statement.