A March prank call of former Buffalo Bills' general manager Buddy Nix and his counterpart with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Mark Dominik, has become a more serious situation.
Two 20-year-olds from Plymouth, Massachusetts have received federal charges of intentionally intercepting a wire communication and making a telephone call without disclosing their identity with the intent to annoy or harass the person at the called number.
The penalty carries a maximum of five years in prison and a $500,000 fine.
Prosecutors said Barber and Kaiser then sold the unauthorized recording to Deadspin.