The NFL decided Thursday that three games was an appropriate punishment for a trio of players who submitted fake vaccination cards in order to avoid the stricter protocols placed on non-vaccinated players.
To call this a slap on the wrist would be an insult to wrist-slapping, which feels like a guillotine in comparison. Regardless of how one feels about vaccine mandates or restrictions, Brown, current teammate Mike Edwards and former teammate John Franklin III wanted to be in the facility, freely roaming, eating, lifting and sauna-lounging with everyone else, unmasked alongside a pair of coaches ranging from their late 60s to early 80s. Head coach Bruce Arians has had three different bouts with cancer, leaving him uniquely immunocompromised.
