The books were fudged. Cooked.

All with the unwitting assistance of the United States military.

That’s according to a report out of Tennessee by News Channel 5 in Nashville that says the NFL’s Tennessee Titans were conducting a touch of accounting sorcery with a Florida ticket broker (or “scalper”) that involved handing out free preseason game stubs to the merchant and writing them off as a military donation.

That wasn’t all, however.

Unrelated to the military lie was the broker’s role in the Titans’ quest to keep their sellout streak alive. As The Tennessean reports, the team could keep their advertisement price tags high by letting ticket seller Cole Rubin “box out” his scalping competition for marquee games in order to balloon the passes’ resale value.

Interestingly enough, all of the Titans’ front office people involved in the alleged incident were either fired or quit in the past year.

Here’s the Titans’ reaction, as told by Deadspin:

The Titans acknowledged that they had relationships with ticket brokers, but denied any tax workarounds, saying in a statement that they had paid the tax “on every single ticket we have ever sold since it went into effect in 2009.” The team is conducting an internal investigation, and the NFL plans to review its findings.

If all of this is true? Not cool.

If you’re going to donate to the military, don’t talk about it and not do it.

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