Today we’re mostly happy to bring you the most classically NFL of NFL updates: the kind that should be cause for great joy and celebration across the land, and objectively speaking, rules, and nonetheless contains a bit of a buzzkill from a New England Patriots perspective. For now, anyway.
On Thursday afternoon, at approximately the same time most of us are contemplating getting an afternoon coffee, or an afternoon cookie, or second lunch, the NFL finally issued the memo we’ve all been waiting for since Roger Goodell and friends earned their stripes as the No-Fun League in 2013 and made the rule that alternate helmets were banned under the ludicrous justification of player safety.