When it comes to things like addressing the sport’s culture, the NFL's talk is much more impressive than the walk.
The National Football League’s 32 owners just decided that what it needs is to be more like soccer.
Yeah, this’ll play well in the hinterlands.
The owners decided to introduce a two-unsportsmanlike conduct ejection policy (as opposed to, say, personal fouls, which would have made it the Aqib Talib Rule) – and though they stopped short of making it an actual yellow card/red card proposition, it didn’t stop that short of it.
The “card” system had seemingly been rejected a day earlier, but Dallas Cowboys executive Stephen Jones, whose father believes that one aspirin a day was the last real medical advancement (we kid, but screw it; Jerry did say some stupid things Tuesday), told reporters at the owners’ meetings in Luxuria Heights, Narnia, that the rule had been okayed on a provisional basis.