If I May

The NFL has decided to add a seventeenth game to the season. This is a little—No, a lot—like Catch-22, where the number of missions keeps getting raised before a crew can go home. Every extra tackle a player has to endure is another flak burst by any other name. So, a proposal in the name of safety, if I may. Commissioner Roger Goodell can show the players he cares about more than the bottom line with one simple rule, that every player who makes the Opening Day roster is allowed to appear in sixteen games, period. No first half here, second half there, or a skipped quarter over four games. Sixteen games and no more. And, there’d you have, being able for once to have your cake and eat it, too.