So this is what something as ambitious and honorable as the Rooney Rule has been reduced to -- something as small and see-through as two NFL teams beginning an immediate courtship of a white guy while offering up the flimsy charade of interviewing a token black guy while the master of this whole universe, Roger Goodell, nods his head in agreement.
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