The National Football League, Coming Clean

I FREELY ADMIT THAT I don't know much, and until today, for example, I had no idea that the National Football League is registered with the United States government as a philanthropic, non profit, tax exempt entity. Even though I've been soaking up the on field action for fifty years, I never had any idea. Excuse me? All that, for an obviously profit seeking profit making business enterprise which just last year grossed an estimated six billion American dollarinos. What do they do, drop a few coins in March of Dimes buckets? Volunteer as escorts and body guards at United Way fund raisers? Lend celebrity appearances for worthy causes? Something, surely. Breaking news: the NFL intends to surrender its non profit tax exempt status, post haste! Maybe it will even stop letting America's tax payers pay for their stadiums, but don't count on it. Cash flow considerations. Why forego their enviable non profit status? To avoid financial disclosure laws? To hide Commissioner Goodell's multi million dollar salary? Public relations? Could be Pee Ar. Bear in mind that the League is going to be out at least a billion dollars, and likely much more, for damage compensation to former players who sufered, and are still suffering, the ill effects of concussions, which for decades were called "getting your bell rung", laughed at, dismisssed as unavoidable, unimportant reasons to sit out only a few minutes, then jump right back into the game. Next thing you know, they'll go back to leather helments, and start holding their heads up and away from contact, rather than using said heads, as they currently do, as speartips. And hell, who knows? Perhpas the League will actually start contributing something financially to their respective communities, as it questionably claims it already does, start paying for its own facilities, and start sharing the wealth a bit with, say, consession workers, custodians, and all those little people who really, if you think about it, make professional football the glitzy gladiatorial spectacle thaw we the American people have come to know and love, so very deeply, so very hard hittingly.