Guest column by Brian Stonelake
Are you an NFL fan? Of course you are. OK, think of your favorite team. Other than your quarterback, name the player who most influences your team's success. What if I told you that the NFL created a rule mandating four arbitrary road-game suspensions for this player? Houston fans: no J.J. Watt. Patriots fans: prepare to be Gronkless. Worse yet, this rule only applies to a handful of teams.
Recently the league released its 2016 schedule and (of course) they implemented no such rule. Unfortunately, they did quantifiably worse.