Ed Rendell Is Right: Tuesday Night Football Is For Wussies!

Ed Rendell isn't going quietly.

The Governor of Pennsylvania is mad as hell and he's not going to put up with it anymore.

He's damn mad about the NFL's decision to cancel Sunday Night Football In America and why not?

"It's an absolute joke. I was looking forward to this. It would have been a real experience. This is what football is all about," Rendell ranted on Fox Philly.

He didn't stop with that, he was on a roll and talking to anyone who would listen, radio audiences, ESPN, anyone.

He has this theory about the "wussification of America" and he's right, this nation is getting too soft in a lot of areas and the NFL has become the poster boy for the "wussification" process with all these fines for hitting too hard in a game that pays defensive players handsomely to do just that.

This latest league decision to call the Sunday Eagles-Vikings game and play it tonight on account of snow has "soft" written all over it.

"We've become a nation of wusses," said Rendell, who has finished his second term and will leave office on Jan 18. But he's not going without giving us all a piece of his gubernatorial mind. "The Chinese are kicking our butts in everything. If this was [sic] China do you think the Chinese would have called off the game?"

Actually, if Roger Goodell were running things in China, he would have.

There were all sorts of excuses for making this the first NFL game on a Tuesday night in so long that hardly anyone is still alive from the last time this happened.

The official reason for all of this was deemed "safety".

Perhaps the real reason is that the NFL did not want to arm the Philly Fans with snowballs. That's where the real danger would come into play. Philly fans armed to the teeth with unlimited snowballs? Now there's the real recipe for disaster.

Still, this was not a popular decision in Philly and it totally smelled of the kinder, gentler, "don't hit anyone too hard" NFL.

"The roads are bad for East Coast standards," observed Vikings tight end Visanthe Shiancoe. "But if this were in the Midwest, there would be no way this would be delayed."

Oh hell yes, break out those snowmobiles and let's get to the game!

Philly Mayor Mike Nutter had declared a state of emergency before game time but still did not make this decision. It was Goodell in conjunction with the Eagles front office.

Vince Lombardi would have hated this decision.

George Halas would have cringed.

But this is the kinder, gentler NFL. Geez, someone might slip and fall with all the snow falling out there on the field and they wouldn't want that, would they?

Can you remember back, decades ago when a big snowfall meant sledding, snowball fights and yes, FOOTBALL...kids playing a neighborhood football game in the snow, full contact, full tackle, bury the runner in the snow!

But no such luck in 2010. No such luck with Roger Goodell's NFL.

Ed Rendell is right. Letting a snow storm cancel a game goes against everything football is all about.

Yes, Rendell is leaving office next month.

But how about this idea:

Ed Rendell should be the next commissioner of the National Football League.

That would put an end to all this "wussification" of the league.

Wouldn't it?