Violence against women is, unfortunately, an evergreen issue for the NFL. That’s what makes the ineptitude of the suits in charge so glaring.
The NFL is, unfortunately, one of our society’s biggest influencers. That’s what makes its mangling and mismanagement of that burden so sad and harmful.
We share some the blame here, too — fans, general public and of course media. We’ve been looking at this all wrong.
A compelling example can be found through the process by which Chiefs star running back Kareem Hunt showed a pattern of violent behavior that the league investigated with all the gusto of a fifth-grader looking for his homework.