This Week in NFL Uniform Rigidness

The NFL seems determined to alienate as many fans and players as possible these days.

In fact, that may actually be somewhere in the mission statement.

The most recent example of the league's complete lack of flexibility once again involves uniforms.

You may recall the Los Angeles Rams making a request to wear their retro throwbacks more often and being promptly shut down.

 

Well, this latest installment is somehow more unreasonable, if that's even possible.

A Kansas City Chiefs lineman by the name of Laurent Duvernay-Tardif recently graduated from medical school in Canada.

Of course, this makes dude an actual doctor, which not surprisingly makes him the first active NFL player to carry this distinction.

 

This is quite an achievement, one that LDT would like to have acknowledged on the back of his uniform with the letters MD after his name.

However, since the league office is apparently mortified at the prospect of altering uniforms in any tangible way, this harmless request has been denied.

 

As per usual, any sort of explanation for this dubious decision isn't being produced by the mouth breathers behind the iron curtain.

All dude wants to do is add two letters to his jersey. After all, suffixes like Jr and Roman numerals -- think Griffin III -- aren't part of surnames, and they're allowed.

And just look at the enthusiasm that is being systematically purged by these fascists.

 

If you require a visual aid to understand just how silly the NFL is being here, just have a look at this mock jersey.

 

If only this situation involved some combination of our national anthem with a side of domestic violence, perhaps the NFL would pay closer attention, amirite.

We are all doomed.