Sez Me …

“Great” is on IR and looks like it may retire.

There are no great NFL teams. Hasn’t been one for a while. Future dynasties are for discouraged archaeologists to uncover once they finish digging up Egypt.

And, somewhere, Pete Rozelle is celebrating, raising a rusty nail, his favorite cocktail.

I will not join in the toast.

Watch it I will, but often wishing it were on radio, and the theater of my mind would at least think it looks good.

Rozelle was and remains the Charlemagne of all sports commissioners. He was a marketing genius, a man of great vision, with rock stars and $$$ in his eyes.

It was Pete who first realized the power and thus the money-printing mint television could become.

In that he no longer is with us — plus the fact we weren’t even acquaintances — I can but guess what he loved besides his family and Football.

Parity.

Pete loved parity. He wanted it for The League — on the field. Off it, he already had achieved fiscal parity for all of his franchises, forming a communist state in which all received an equal slice of the lettuce (and those greens now make enough salad to feed the entire vegan world).

Parity stinks.

The best team doesn’t always win. Great teams haven’t always won. But they’re necessary. The Have Nots and their fans need the Haves as targets.

Of course some teams are better than others. But, are there even real upsets anymore? An upset today is beating the spread.

Not long ago, I read the new NFL way is the Rams’ way. China’s Qin dynasty lasted only 15 years. The Rams Empire lasted six months.

Things have gotten so bad, even veteran broadcasters are telling us what we’re watching stinks (those not vested are too afraid).

Have you watched those Thursday night games on Amazon Prime? USDA Prime really is USDA Select. At best.

There are reasons for this that can’t be reversed.

Bad decisions in coaching. Bad decisions in personnel evaluation, in the draft and free agency. Too much emphasis by scouts on the eye candy, physical things that have nothing to with the ability to play football, instead of the intangibles. Billionaire owners are concerned only with the dollar. Fundamentals gone without practice time, which also may lead to a rash of injuries.

Divas abound, and they don’t always sing the song in tune. Receivers practice one-handed catches and continuously fail to catch with two. Running wins, but coaches throw.

It’s about The Look now. The pretty and the sexy.

But millions of fantasy players and hard-core gamblers continue to watch, so the NFL can welcome parity without concern for the product. It works, so fixing it is out of the question.

But the football bible tells us there is something David and Goliath when an underdog beats a great team.

Now, David is slinging stones at Davids. …

I can see Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson battling it out next year for the Broncos’ starting quarterback position. …

His physical slip is showing, but sleep on a cold Tom Brady and you wake up on hot coals. The Rams’ defense at the end vs. the Bucs (no timeouts) was so poorly designed it should be sent to Canton’s “How not to Play” wing. You don’t guard the sidelines? Alas, football genius is so fleeting. …

The Rams have been outscored 71-10 in fourth quarters. …

Brady now has passed for 100,000-plus yards (downtown to San Clemente), 15,000 more than prolific Drew Brees. When that’s broken, receivers will be wearing jet packs. And still drop passes. …

Think how many hundreds of yards Brady’s lost to drops. …

Tom can’t last throwing 50-plus times a game, but the Bucs can’t run.

No broadcaster — no one, period — should refer to Tyreek Hill as “My Man.” Real men don’t beat and choke their pregnant girlfriends and get investigated for breaking that child’s arm. …

The Bucs and Seahawks are playing football this morning in Germany. The NFL is gambling that American Nazis travel well. ……

After watching the end of Bills-Jets, how can the Competition Committee look at that blatant pass interference against Stefon Diggs and not make PI reviewable? PI is too hard to call and often too important to get wrong, …

And too severe. The Jets could have had a 69-yard penalty on a Josh Allen throw. …

Rodgers apologizes, insisting he has run out of fingers to point at everyone but himself. …

Imagine, Cris Collinsworth saying the Chiefs have five players who run 4.4 40s with a straight face (I guess it was straight; couldn’t see it). Why perpetuate these myths when they aren’t possibly close to the truth? …

Here’s to Jeff Saturday, interim Colts head coach. I don’t know if he can run a team (I hope so), but I would love to cover him. Hilarious. …

Jim Irsay is 99.9 percent clueless. But when he calls NFL coaches “afraid,” he couldn’t be more accurate. Why are coaches “afraid?” Clueless owners. …

There are complaints that Saturday never coached. What about the great number of experienced assistants who are elevated and can’t run to the bathroom, let alone a team? …

The Rooney Rule is impotent, but please explain how it can be applied to an interim coaching hire? Gonna bring in 10 applicants for interviews the week of a game? …

Jimmy Johnson says: “This is the best Cowboys team I’ve seen.” So he never watched his Super Bowl winners, which were the deepest in NFL history, so deep Dallas won despite losing so many players when free agency began? Poppycock. …

Ray Scott was the greatest football broadcaster. “This is Hornung, to the 15.” “Starr-Dowler, touchdown.” …

If Pete Carroll coached USC the way he’s now coaching Seattle, the Trojans wouldn’t have lost a game — and the few they lost he had something to do with. Right now, he’s Coach of The Year. …

The Padres are doing it right. So far. …

Thinking about Dion Rich’s afterlife. If Saint Peter doesn’t let him in, the Pearly Gates will be cake for him. It won’t be long before he’s getting his picture taken and sipping wine with the Three Wise Men. …

The biggest problem with hate is that, while those who follow and never lead know what they hate, they don’t know why. …

Adam Silver says, “no doubt,” Kyrie Irving isn’t an anti-Semite. How does he know? Just because Silver is Jewish, he can tell from one conversation? …

Do Californians really believe that, by voting down sports betting, we’re stopping it from happening? The yearly estimate for illegal wagering in the U.S.? More than $300 billion. …

Making fun of the mentally and physically handicapped and the sick has become the un-American way. All this cruelty, just to vote in clowns who quickly forget those who voted for them? …

Not the best season for colorful oceanic phenomena, such as the Crimson Tide and Red Wave. …

The teacher in my granddaughter’s first-grade class asked the kids to name their favorite food. Arya’s answer: “Meat.” Atta girl. A chip off the old butcher block.