"Members of Rob Ford’s staff raised questions with him early on in his term about the ethics of using taxpayer-funded staff and vehicles to help with football teams, but the mayor would not budge, sources told the Star. Instead, staffers made sure the special assistant working with Ford’s football teams was also doing a “good amount of constituent work, just in case reporters ever came knocking.” The amount of work devoted to football varied with the time of year, said one former staffer, but during the warm months and into the fall, it’s fair to say football was the focus."