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The NFL should get rid of Charles Goodell and his crew of Lefties and replace them with Tony Dungy and people like him who have good relations with the players and who have a practical approach toward divisive issues. The owners should also announce and fund the formation of the NFL Urban Institute, which is to be focused on improvements in the lives of inner city residents. The NFL Players Association will be asked to participate.

The Institute should aim to develop programs based on: (1) the Finnish model of intense, school centered encouragement and individualized assistance to inner city kids, which is also the approach used in the Tangelo Park effort in Orlando; (2) community wide, church centered improvements in the inner city lifestyle based on the work of Catholic Archbishop John Hughes among the Irish in New York; and (3) the NFL philosophy that combines team effort and accomplishment with individual improvements in skill.

Once these changes are underway, ever so carefully, meet in private with the Players Association and suggest that the kneeling protests have accomplished whatever good may come of them and that it is now time for the players to end them -- and to preferably become flag waving super-patriots for the sake of the game.