The aftermath: no suspension, fine, for Chargers’ hit on Bradford

After an exhausting 36 hours of tweets and counter-tweets, blowing up everyone’s timeline with concussion stats (leather-helmeted rugby is more brain-dangerous than football, it turns out), NFL rules debates (was Bradford “defenseless,” and does it matter?), testimonials from players, fans, and a few intelligent folks just trying to stand in the middle of this thing and sort it all out… we’ve arrived at the point in time when the league has made its ruling and we make a temporary peace with it. Would you take tens of thousands of dollars from this guy? From those kids? And after threatening immediate suspensions, the league reached into the pockets of Dunta Robinson, Brandon Meriweather, and James Harrison, but left Chargers linebacker Kevin Burnett alone. Why the difference? For one, Bradford got up from his hit and kept playing, when DeSean Jackson, Todd Heap, Josh Cribbs and Mohamed Massaquoi could not. (Heap did return to the field later.) For a...