The NFL owners, competition committee are clueless, knuckleheads

… no concept of fundamental fairness 

The NFL competition committee rectified some of the horrible wrongs in their league this week. They made some changes that were long overdue.

According to Joe Rutter of the Tribune-Review, these were the changes that were made:

-- Players no longer can leap over the line of scrimmage to block field-goal and extra-point tries. [Wow!]

-- Receivers running a pass route will be given “defenseless” receiver protection. [duh]

-- Crackback blocks will be prohibited by a player in motion, even if he is no more than 2 yards outside of the tackle when the ball is snapped. [so?]

Now, tell me NFL fans, when was the last time that you saw a game decided because of one of those terrible oversights? The receivers should have been given defenseless protection years ago were it not for the geniuses on that committee, like Mike Tomlin.

However, the big rule that they tabled had nothing to do with the horrible injustice that occurred in this year's Super Bowl.

Rutter started his story with this, "Reducing the time of NFL games this season won't involve shaving five minutes from the overtime period."

Shaving time off the overtime period?

Knuckleheads! The problem in the Super Bowl overtime is that one of the teams -- the one that lost the toss -- never had a chance to touch the ball.

Now, this is injustice.

Believe me, if the roles were reversed, and Bob Kraft -- whose former tight end is now on trial the second time for murder -- watched his team lose the Super Bowl because it never touched the ball, he would have taken it to the U.S. Supreme Court [and lost, just like Deflategate, though it never got that far.]

College and high school understand basic equity. Each team has a chance to score from the same distance. Each team touches the ball.

The knuckleheads on the competition committee still do not understand why that is not fair.

Of course, one of them is Mike Tomlin, which should help answer that question.