When you're right ...

 At this moment, somewhere, the sky is cracking. Rivers are running backwards. Dogs and cats are living together.

All this because of five words I never in a million millenia thought I'd say: I agree with Fearless Leader, aka President Donald John "Where's My Tapioca?" Trump.

He was on the air with Pat McAfee awhile back, see, being as babbl-y and Crazy Uncle Herb as usual. And then, like a bolt of revealed wisdom from the dementia gods, he actually said something that made sense.

He said he hated the new NFL kickoff rule.

Said it was "terrible." Said it was "demeaning." Said a bunch of other stuff about "pageantry" and what-not, but frankly I stopped paying attention the way everyone stops paying attention to Crazy Uncle Herb after ten seconds or so.

In any event, Fearless Leader hated on the kickoff rule, and I was, "Oh my God! I agree with this nutjob!"  Which was not a comforting thought, but, hey: When you're right you're right.

And he is. The kickoff rule is terrible. It's also stupid and weird-looking. The kicker's on one yard line, the rest of his guys are on a different yard line, and when he kicks the ball they stand there like a stone wall ("Hey! That's my gig!" the ghost of Stonewall Jackson just said) until the kick returner touches the ball. 

Then they go tearing off after him, as if released from suspended animation.

Now, allegedly, the new rule is supposed to promote more kick returns, while at the same time minimizing the injuries that come from large men getting a running start and crashing into each other. Thing is, the large men still get a running start and crash into each other. They just do it on tape delay or something.

It wasn't long, of course, before NFL people leaped to the rule's defense. One of the people was Chiefs special-teams coordinator Dave Toub, who basically said Crazy Uncle Herb needed to go back to his attic.

"He doesn't even know what he's looking at. He has no idea what's going on with the kickoff rule," Toub said, according to the website Awful Announcing. "So take that for what it's worth. And I hope he hears it."

Now, Toub's probably right about Fearless Leader not knowing what he's looking at. It's a sports thing, and he's a political figure, and generally speaking political figures don't know jack-all about sports things. 

I am not a political figure, however. I'm a former sports scribbler who's seen his share of football over four decades on the job. This means I've actually learned something about the game, if not nearly as much as a smarter sports scribbler would have.

And I hate the NFL kickoff rule, too. And halfway understand it, even though the first time I saw it in action I had the same thought most of America did: "The hell is this?"

Come to think of it, that's pretty much what I said the other day when I realized I was agreeing with Fearless Leader. Fist bump, Mr. President.

OK, so no.