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Much to Stottlemeyer’s chagrin, Monk can’t enter the game while there’s a potential crime to be solved.  Monk and Stottlemeyer go back to the parking lot to talk to Chet Walsh, the fan with the exploding grill.  Chet accuses some rival fans of rigging the grill to explode.  When Monk and Stottlemeyer go to question the fans, Stottlemeyer recognizes them as some old football buddies from high school.  They show Stottlemeyer a speeding ticket they received 35 minutes ago, meaning they couldn’t have been around to booby trap the grill.

After much convincing, Monk finally decides to hit the “off-switch” in his brain and accompany Stottlemeyer into the game – that is, until he recognizes a picture of a championship ring on a game program.  It’s the same ring the “passed-out” tailgater was wearing when they first arrived.  They find the tailgater, and Stottlemeyer recognizes him as David Gitelson, who they now realize has been murdered. 

Stottlemeyer wants to enter the game and leave the investigation to the proper, on-duty authorities, but Monk can’t ignore the case.  Exasperated, Stottlemeyer blows up at Monk and leaves to watch the game without him. 

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