The NFL is not in trouble.
Embarrassed? Yes. Will some league office executives, including commissioner Roger Goodell - lose their jobs? Perhaps.
But the NFL in trouble? Come on.
Yahoo! Sports on Wednesday reported on the far-reaching effects of the NFL's mishandling of its domestic violence-abuse issues, so much so that Nike stopped selling Adrian Peterson jerseys and that Anheuser-Busch expressed dissatisfaction with the league's response to what has suddenly become an epidemic.
But has Nike pulled its Swoosh from NFL jerseys? No.
Has Anheuser-Busch threatened to disassociate itself with the NFL if that dissatisfaction continues? Not publicly, anyway.
Neither company would do what the Radisson hotel chain did to the Minnesota Vikings - suspend its sponsorship. The NFL is too big, makes much too much money for everyone. If Nike were to pull out, Under Armour, adidas or some other apparel giant would be happy to associate with the NFL.
If Anheuser-Busch suspends its partnership with the NFL, several other beer or alcohol sellers are available to step in.
Money is the reason the NFL sometimes banks on rogue players, several of whom likely have been coddled at an early age because of their athletic talent. Look no further than to the case of Florida State quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Jameis Winston -- a future NFL player in all likelihood.
In 2012, Winston was accused of raping a woman. A Florida state's attorney's investigation concluded that it lacked evidence to bring criminal charges against Winston - a decision that has come under fire. USA TODAY Sports reported in April that a lawyer representing the woman said he was told the school suspended its own investigation of the matter because of Winston's unwillingness to cooperate.
Be that as it may, Winston since has responded to his serious brush with the law by "forgetting to pay" for crab legs at a grocery store and then on Tuesday getting up on a table in the middle of the FSU campus and screaming a vulgarity associated with the female anatomy, as Deadspin.com reported.
He was suspended for four days after the first incident and now the first half in Saturday's game against Clemson for the second. Those punishments are a joke.
The debate about Adrian Peterson continues, with comments coming from both supporters and detractors. Whether Peterson's horrible errors in disciplinary judgment can be fixed through counseling will be seen.
But in 2013, Peterson refused to tell ESPN how many kids he has. One of his children died in October, 2013, killed by another boyfriend of the child's mother. That was two months after Peterson found out the child was his. One of his kids' mothers told TMZ that he had seven children, but all Peterson would divulge was "I know the truth; I'm comfortable with that knowledge."
After the allegations against Peterson - not to mention another report of a claim that he injured another of his children, a claim Peterson's lawyer says is not true - who would be comfortable with Peterson's skills as a father?
Unless the kids spend time with Peterson during the season - a highly unlikely scenario - he would have just seven months out of the year to spend with the kids. If he did have seven children, there's no way he'd have the opportunity to really get to know all his kids in that amount of time. So he is a glorified babysitter who is disciplining them the way it has been reported.
These kids have been disciplined the majority of their lives by their mothers, and for him to expect them automatically to behave the way he wants in the days or weeks he has them - and then whip them because they don't behave the way he wants - that is not the definition of a good father.
And just because he has the means to financially support up to seven children - that does not automatically make him a good father, either.
Part of the NFL's stumbling with the Ray Rice case was that Rice was a model citizen publicly with the Baltimore Ravens before he knocked out his then-fiancée in the elevator of an Atlantic City casino over Valentine's Day weekend this year.
Rice's fiancée married him shortly after the incident, and her pleas for her husband reportedly played a role in his lightly regarded two-game suspension.
Now that he has been suspended indefinitely, Rice is claiming double jeopardy - that the NFL punished him twice for the same offense. By appealing his suspension, he is saying that he believes his actions deserve only a two-game suspension.
And reports already are indicating that teams would be interested in Rice once his suspension is lifted. Why? Because they think he can help them win games. Which attracts media. And fans. And sponsors.
All of whom generate more money for the NFL.
And the vicious cycle is perpetuated.
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