According to the powers that be in the NFL you may participate in the torture of animals (unless the law intervenes and decides you need to serve some time). You can beat your significant other. You may beat your child so badly they end up in the hospital. You can haze your teammates, but do not talk about said hazing because kids, “real men take it quietly.”
I suppose they don’t care that many of their players would fit right into an episode of Criminal Minds or Law and Order: SVU because frankly, they have very little incentive to. So, until it hurts their ticket sales or ratings, their players will be allowed to continue doing whatever they want to whomever they want, as long as they don’t damage their throwing arms or running legs.
We put athletes on pedestals. We conflate the ability to score touchdowns and run fast with being a good person. We put winning games ahead of accountability and basic human decency. The NFL often looks the other way because at this point, they likely understand that as long as their bad boy players can still show up to games, the general public will have no qualms about buying jerseys and filling the stands.
So, NFL, let’s be clear about this—a player bending the knee to protest systemic inequality is the least horrifying thing one of your employees has done this decade.
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