Super profanity goes unpunished by Goodell

NO CIVIL, public selfawareness is the new self-awareness. Eagles center Jason

Kelce, University of Cincinnati man, was given the microphone at the Eagles’ downtown Super Bowl celebration then let loose with some needless expletives. That the audience was packed with kids made no difference.

Naturally, the NFL let it go, perhaps as per Roger

Goodell’s invitation for players to demonstrate “spontaneous fun.”

A circumspect commissioner would have fined Kelce and made that fine very public, especially at a time when the NFL is suffering the loss of fans who can no longer suffer the conduct of its players.

And if Kelce or the NFLPA wanted to fight it, bring it on. As long as the NFL went on public record that there’s actually something beneath its dignity. But that’s not Goodell. He’s a pandering panderer.

As for Kelce, how would he react if someone walked up to the kids in his life and shouted f-bombs into their ears?

ESPN remains convinced of something that’s both absurd and untrue: People tune to ESPN to watch games because they’re on ESPN.

Thus, last week ESPN performed a “crossover” stunt, placing regular college game analysts —

Dick Vitale, for one — on NBA games, and vice versa — Mark Jackson on a college game. Let’s swap the familiar with the lesser familiar! Brilliant!

Think that made for even one more viewer of those games?

This week in the ESPN cafeteria in Bristol, Conn., the baskets holding the mustard and ketchup packets will be switched, ketchup on the right, mustard on the left. Can’t wait!