It may help your understanding of what the National Football League is doing to itself by thinking of the entire last two years as a giant scientific trial, the object of which is to see if there is long-term financial value in trying to take heroin addicts and hook them on heroin, and then doubling down to see if they can get the prostitutes to do tricks on their own time and turn all the extra money back to the pimp.
Why else would the league’s 32 owners, awash in their own “I have everything I can get and now I want everything you can get too” hypergreed try to gin up a business already so ingrained in the nation’s marrow that media people gleefully yammer about “Hurray!