Opinion Headlines

NFL. “Blitzing the NFL With Moral Preening.” By Joseph Epstein. [Politicians and the media huddle up to see who can score the most points for virtuous outrage.] 9-22-14
NFL. “How an NFL Commissioner Needs to Think.” By Fay Vincent. [Lost in the furor is much discussion about the considerations that go into punishing off-field behavior.] 9-16-14
NFL. “Way Beyond the NFL’s Competence.” By Holman Jenkins, Jr. 9-24-14
NFL and the Larger Furor Over Domestic Violence. LTE. 9-24-14
NFL. “A Better Way to Reduce Domestic Violence in the NFL.” By Richard Gelles. [Sports leagues can benefit from the experience of the military, which faced a similar problem in the 1990s.] 9-26-14
NFL. Learning From Roger Goodell. By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Why anybody who works for the NFL would ever trust him again is an open question.] 12-6-14
NFL. “The NFL Needs Distance From Its Brain-Injury Funding.” By Roger Pieke Jr. [By all means, keep funding concussion studies, but step back and let independent science take its course.] 2-22-16
NFL. “Blocking the NFL Concussion Settlement.” By Arthur R. Miller. 5-4-16
NFL. “The NFL’s Pink Publicity Stunt Isn’t About Fighting Cancer.” [The football league seems more interested in winning female fans than actually helping to find a cure.] 9-30-16
NFL. LTE. “NFL’s Breast-Cancer Program Does Real Good.” 10-15-16
NFL. LTE. “More Fans Team Up to Sack The Mighty NFL’s Ratings.” 10-18-16
NFL. “NFL Problem – or TV Problem?” by Homan W. Jenkins, Jr. [Everything you love about the NFL without 100 commercials.] 10-22-16
NFL. “The Politicization of Everything.” [Everybody loses in the Trump-NFL brawl over the national anthem.] 9-25-17
NFL. “Trump Helps Kaepernick Drag the NFL Into Politics.” By Jason Whitlock. [The league will no longer be allowed to present football as an escape from America’s divisions.] 9-26-17
NFL. LTE. “The Football Protest, Free Speech and Wisdom.” 9-29-17 [12 letters to the editor]
NFL. “Trump Bullies the NFL Because It’s Easy.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. 9-30-17
NFL. “Close Calls for big-League Leaders.” By Fay Vincent. [Sports have always had a political dimension, and commissioners often face difficult decisions.] 10-2-17
NFL. “Rules for the NFL’s Radicals.” By Mike Gecan. [You have the public’s attention. Now do something with it.] 10-10-17
NFL. “What Football Needs Is Another Teddy Roosevelt.” By Robert Blecker. [After 18 players died in 1905, TR pushed rule changes. What a contrast to Trump.] 10-14-17
NFL. “The NFL vs. the New York Times.” By Wm. McGurn. [The paper says pro football players have speech rights it denies to its own reporters.] 10-17-17
NFL. “Is Roger Goodell Deliberately Pushing the NFL Leftward? By Jason Whitlock. [A year ago he hired a Democratic operative, Joe Lockhart, as his top communication exec.] 11-6-17
NFL. “What the NFL Teaches Corporate America.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [A taited CEO’s troubles quickly become the tail that wags every dog.] 11-25-17
NFL. “How to Save Football Players’ Brains.” By Paul S. Auerbach. [One simple rule change would solve much of the problem: Require the linemen to stand up.] 1-20-18
NFL. “A Dubious Narrative Contributed to the NFL Protests.” By Jillian Kay Melchior. [An exhaustive search of public records finds no evidence of the racial crimes alleged at Missouri.] 2-2-18
NFL. “The NFL Stops Indulging a Dangerous Narrative.” By Jason L. Riley. [The new national anthem policy will help put to rest the myth that America is awash in police murders.] 5-30-18
NFL. “Are You Ready for Some Political Football?” by Jason L. Riley. [The NFL penalizes itself for unnecessary roughness against Colin Kaepernick with a social-justice blitz.] 9-9-20
NFL. “NFL, People See a Far-Off Future.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [The technological possibilities are limitless until you try to implement them.] 3-24-21
NFL. “The Economics of Running Backs.” By Roland Fryer. [They used to be highly paid stars. Why do they now make so much less than quarterbacks?] 9-5-24