title: json_decode returns null with PHP, NFL API
body: <p>For some reason json_decode is returning NULL with valid JSON.</p>
  
  <p>The json is located here: <a href="http://www.nfl.com/liveupdate/scorestrip/scorestrip.json" rel="nofollow">http://www.nfl.com/liveupdate/scorestrip/scorestrip.json</a></p>
  
  <p>I am getting the file contents of the page (file_get_contents) and then running json_decode on it. </p>
  
  <p>Also tried stripslashes b/c of magic quotes.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance,
  Phil</p>
  
  <pre><code>$json = file_get_contents('http://www.nfl.com/liveupdate/scorestrip/scorestrip.json');
  
  var_dump(json_decode($json));
  </code></pre>