You don’t want to know how the sausage is made.
The general concept being it’s much better to see the finished product than how it was built. It’s a lot easier to stomach.
The NFL works in the same way. By Thursday, the production value from NBC’s broadcast and the energy of the season opener will make each team glisten. But getting to that point ain’t pretty.
Ross Scheuerman, a rookie who showed promise, came up lame at the very end of a run with an Achilles injury. He sat on a cooler, talked to trainer John Norwig as his foot was wrapped and iced, got a fist bump from the then-injured Ross Ventrone, was carted off, and never returned.