Neither the National Football League officials nor NFL’s outside counsel from Haynes and Boone coached or counseled a contractor who worked on seating for Super Bowl XLV before he testified for a videotaped deposition played at a federal trial, according to Thad Behrens, a partner in Dallas’ Haynes and Boone, who represents the NFL.

That trial ended last week with a jury verdict which awarded about $75,000 to ticketholder plaintiffs who had alleged breach of contract claims against the NFL; but the same jury nixed the plaintiffs’ fraudulent inducement claims against the league.

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