Favre’s texting misadventure helped Hargrove avoid suspension

Most of former Commissioner Paul Tagliabue’s 22-page ruling focuses on the question of whether and to what extent players should be subject to suspension for pay-for-performance/bounty programs that are administered by coaches. But free-agent defensive end Anthony Hargrove’s seven-game suspension ultimately was fueled by allegations that Hargrove lied to investigators in March 2010, when the…