“I have forsworn myself. I have broken every law I have sworn to uphold, I have become what I beheld and I am content that I have done right.”
— Eliot Ness, “The Untouchables.”
— Also: Mike Vaccaro, The New York Post
It’s true. There aren’t a lot of codes I follow strictly when I write this column. But this is one: The scourge of the NBA, NHL and MLB is to be afflicted with “footballification.” That last one is a word of my own creation. It can best be summarized thusly:
