Jason Cole article: Brees - 3rd Franchise Tag? CBA Wording

The wording of official documents can be very tricky. I lived in Aztec, NM for a little while. Aztec is an extremely small community that shares a county with Farmington, NM. Farmington isn't big by a long shot but it is significantly larger than Aztec. However, Aztec is the county seat which has caused some dispute between the two. A group of Farmington residents devised a plan to move the county seat based off of the wording of county documents. The documents read as such:

The county seat will be where the county records are held.

Seems innocent enough right? Well, this group came up with a plan to break in and physically move the country records to Farmington during a big holiday event that was taking place in Aztec (told you, it was a small town). Their logic was that if the county records were brought to Farmington, Farmington would now be the county seat because it would be where the records are currently held (even if they were gotten and moved via an illegal break-in).

If it would have read, "The county records are held in the county seat" instead, no one could have questioned it. Wording is everything. The Franchise Designation wording can be deceiving at first glance but it is actually very clear in that it refers to one team, any of the 32, designating a player as the franchise player for a third time.