One shining moment

 And, no, we're not talking about THE One Shining Moment, which is what all of America waits up for the first Monday night in April because CBS refuses to start the NCAA championship game at a civilized hour. 

We're talking about what happened out in Tempe, Ariz., the other day, where a 30-year-old man decided to commit sexual assault on a 71-year-old woman in a park in broad daylight. And where what subsequently happened proves that maybe God wears an Aaron Rodgers or Patrick Mahomes or Tom Brady jersey on Sundays in the fall.

What subsequently happened was, Justin Herron and another man came to the rescue.

Herron, see, is a New England Patriots offensive tackle out of Wake Forest who just completed his rookie season. He's rather large. OK, he's really large: 6-5 and 305 pounds of professional athlete. And when he and a man named Murry Rogers saw what was happening, they leaped up and started yelling at the guy to get off her.

Then Herron pulled the guy off her and told him to sit his ass down and wait for police. I imagine it was a little like a regular-sized human plucking a hotdog wrapper off the sidewalk.

Anyway, the Tempe police declared Herron and Rogers heroes, and Roger Goodell and the rest of the NFL suits must be on their knees thanking a benevolent Almighty. Because, of course, it happened right in the middle of the whole Deshaun Watson mess, in which one of the league's its brightest stars is getting buried in civil suits as an alleged serial sexual harasser/molester.

PR like that you don't need when you've expended so much time and effort telling America you take sexual assault and domestic violence really really seriously. Really.

Now they've got Justin Herron to trot out there and say "See? NFL players GET IT."

Shoot. They might just erect a statue of the guy somewhere.