I wrote my Politico column today on the ongoing self-congratulatory, absurdly excessive media coverage of the NFL:

Over the past few weeks, two sets of initials have dominated the news — ISIL and NFL — and the casual listener would be hard-pressed to decide which is more odious.
It’s a wonder that President Barack Obama didn’t include a passage in his speech to the nation last week pledging to bring NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to justice.
Such is the weight the press has put on the NFL’s punishment of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice for punching his then-fiancée that Denis McDonough, the president’s chief of staff, had to weigh in on “Meet the Press”: “I think we all know that Ray Rice being suspended indefinitely seems to be exactly the right thing.”
On the NFL, the media has lost its collective mind. It’s as if the people who controlled CNN’s programming in the aftermath of the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 have been put in charge of all press coverage of the NFL, and brought to the task the same sense of proportion, good taste and dignity that characterized the network’s handling of the missing plane.

If you missed it, by the way, you should read Andy’s column on ESPN from over the weekend.

UPDATE:

From commenter NJCon172:

Here is the path to redemption of the NFL:
Janay Rice divorces Ray Rice (making the “how could she stay with him?” crowd happy).
Ray Rice marries Michael Sam and take custody of Adrian Peterson’s children.
The Washington Redskins then sign Ray Rice (Sam?) and Michael Sam (Rice?) to long-term contracts creating so much PC good will that they no longer have to change the team name.