The NFL (and the NFLPA) as The Great and Powerful Oz

Something very important happened yesterday.

Something completely expected happened yesterday.

And because of all the hullaballoo over Deflate-Gate and the Seahawks-Packers Scriptjob, no one probably actually cared to see this.

The NFLPA (whom, by the way, has now also demanded players stop talking about DeflateGate *guffaw*...) has filed a grievance against the league on the personal conduct policy.

And if anyone wants to think the desired result is not both the nullification, in court, of both that policy and the Player Safety policy, then you might be an NFL shill.

I fully envision the day (and it might well be some point later in 2015) that we get the following spiel from Goodell himself:

"These are bad men doing bad things to bad men.  They are not worthy of anything but your worship as long as they serve you and entertain you.  They are not worthy of your sympathy or anything of the sort."