Everything wrong with everything, NFL edition

Tomorrow morning at 9:30 a.m., the New York Giants will face the Los Angeles Rams at Twickenham Stadium in London.

That entire sentence is a neat microcosm of basically everything that's twisted in Roger Goodell's National Football League today.

First things first, London. The city that didn't ask for a team but just might get one anyways. I could think of a few American cities that are without a team...

...like St. Louis, which was robbed of the Rams last off-season.

'Robbed' may be a bit strong, as Los Angeles and St. Louis have now effectively played a 22-year long game of hot potato over the Rams, with the ball now back in LA's court.

Speaking of LA, wasn't the whole reason the NFL made its triumphant return to the second-largest city in the U.S. to increase ratings? How's that been working out?

The NFL was hardly "fine" without a team in the Los Angeles market, but that had literally less than zero to do with the fact there wasn't a team in Los Angeles. Did alienating an entire fan base to get back to the City of Angels justify the means?

Of course, if you think alienating one city is bad, how about alienating an entire gender?

The Giants' handling of the Josh Brown domestic violence incident has been nothing short of appalling, but you already knew that. Owner John Mara is a spineless, gutless weasel for not taking action on Brown before the public outcry forced his hand thanks to diligent reporting by Ralph Vacchiano of SNY.

Brown is now on the exempt list, with former Bears great Robbie Gould taking over kicking duties. You know what the exempt list is French for? A paid vacation. Yup, Brown will still be paid in full. The Giants could have released Brown, which would have been a dead cap hit of roughly $1.9 million (his salary is $1.6 million), according to Spotrac.

The business aspect is what it is, but when you consider the NFL spent almost $20 million on DeflateGate, what's $300,000 among friends (Mara was one of the owners at the forefront of the witch hunt with Goodell).

It's just another example that the Ray Rice incident of 2014 changed nothing. But it's okay, you can drape yourself in all the pink NFL apparel* you want to remind yourself the NFL cares about women!

*-for every $100 raised on pink NFL apparel, only $11.25 goes to breast cancer research. Look it up.

With Brown, you know what the real kicker is? Just that. It was Allen Iverson who once said "not a quarterback, not a quarterback...we talkin' bout a kicker."

This is the hill Mara and Giants head coach Ben McAdoo are going to die on?

McAdoo said on Friday "the team isn't going to abandon Brown," which is in stark contrast to some statements he made upon taking the head coaching gig. I believe the words he chose were along the lines of domestic violence being something he "won't tolerate as a head coach."

That's cute. He already showed he could waffle with the best of 'em back in August, when Brown drew his initial one-game suspension from the NFL. McAdoo said he supported Josh Brown "as a man, a father and a player." Even Donald Trump, Hilary Clinton and politicians everywhere are impressed with that kind of flip-flopping.

A one-game suspension, when domestic violence was supposed to be a six-game suspension following the Rice conundrum? How can Roger Goodell look his daughters or wife in the eye and tell them he cares about women?

Stop me if you've heard this before, but it sounds like the neither the NFL nor the Giants did enough digging into Brown's arrest in King County, Wash. in 2015. Just replace Brown with Rice and King County with Atlantic City and you've got yourself a carbon copy.

From a strict x's and o's standpoint, both the Giants and Rams are 3-3, which is right in line with how they've been for years. The Giants winning the Super Bowl with a 9-7, -6 point differential and Jeff Fisher's never-ending quest for .500 and all.

Throw out everything I just mentioned about Brown, London and Los Angeles/St. Louis, is a match-up of .500 teams enough to wake up at 9:30 on Sunday morning?

Hell no. Sunday mornings are for the Three Stooges and blue powerade. Again, the NFL forcing something down our collective throats that no one asked for.

"Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered," Mark Cuban said in March 2014, predicting the NFL was about 10 years away from implosion.

We're less than three years removed from that notion and I'm not saying doomsday is tomorrow, but literally everything wrong with the hoggy NFL will be on display early in the morning from across the pond.

Roger Goodell's day of reckoning can't be that far off. It just can't be.

Slowly but surely, we just might be seeing some seepage in the cracks. One owner called the Brown situation "embarrassing," while two league officials "believe the NFL was disinterested in the Brown case when compared to the fervor with which it pursued the New England Patriots over DeflateGate."

The NFL is salvageable, which feels odd to say when the average value of its franchises is $2.3 billion. What exactly needs to be salvaged?

Plenty. It starts at the top with that buffoon of a commissioner. I truly don't know what else needs to happen. Nothing's too big to fail and that includes the NFL.

Dare I say, the NFL needs a new commissioner to...make it great again?