I’m not sure if NFL commissioner Roger Goodell expected the scattered fans at Arrowhead Stadium to boo the pre-game moment of unity on opening night. Somewhere along the line in their thousand actuarial meetings pertaining to whether or not they should support the players in their quest for – gasp – equality, it must have come up.
But if we’ve learned anything about the weathermen and women who run this league and the country at large, continued support for such things always depends on which way the wind is blowing. This offseason, in an incredible and swift moment of togetherness from the league’s players, the NFL’s hand was forced.