NOT ENOUGH BUT A START
ESPN reports that the NFL will review again the issue of resting players. Apparently the league condones to some extent resting players:
“This is an issue that we have reviewed in the past. The position of the competition committee, and affirmed by the clubs, when it was reviewed in 2005 was that ‘a team that has clinched its division title has earned the right to rest its starters for the postseason, and that preparing for the postseason is just as important as protecting some other team’s playoff opportunity.’ That is the current policy,” league spokesman Greg Aiello said.
I still contend that there needs to be better, clearer rules in place. But this is a start. Readers who are concerned may certainly in a polite and respectful manner approach the NFL about this. The league has changed it mind based on public outrage before when it banned and then allowed churches to show the Super Bowl so long as no one pays for it.
