{"id":8854,"date":"2014-02-01T16:53:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T21:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=8854"},"modified":"2014-02-01T16:53:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T21:53:12","slug":"feds-seize-200000-counterfeit-items-prior-to-super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/02\/01\/feds-seize-200000-counterfeit-items-prior-to-super-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds seize 200,000 counterfeit items prior to Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8855\" alt=\"jerseys\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/jerseys.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/jerseys.jpg 960w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/jerseys-300x118.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/jerseys-50x19.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Federal officials have seized more than 200,000 counterfeit items leading up to Super Bowl XLVIII.<\/p>\n<p>The items are said to be valued at $21 million dollars. Which really should be $0 since they are counterfeit.<\/p>\n<p>This is a story that we run every year. This time around, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-01-30\/super-bowl-drugs-prostitute-party-packs-spur-crackdown.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bloomberg<\/a> reports that 50 people have been arrested &#8220;as part of an operation that began in June and targeted international shipments of counterfeit merchandise as they entered the U.S., according to a statement today from the enforcement agency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Denver Broncos are a <a title=\"Super Bowl XLVIII Betting Odds and Point Spread for Broncos versus Seahawks\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/02\/01\/super-bowl-xlviii-betting-odds-and-point-spread-for-broncos-versus-seahawks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">2.5 point favorite<\/a> against the Seattle Seahawks for Super Bowl XLVIII which will be played at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal officials have seized more than 200,000 counterfeit items leading up to Super Bowl XLVIII. The items are said to be valued at $21 million dollars. Which really should be $0 since they are counterfeit. This is a story that we run every year. This time around, Bloomberg reports that 50 people have been arrested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-8854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8854"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}