The NFL plows through holidays like Jim Brown, Marion Motley, Mike Pruitt, Kevin Mack and Nick Chubb plowing through would-be tacklers.

Indeed, the league plays on every holiday known to man — Christmas Day, Thanksgiving Day, New Year’s Day, Labor Day, whatever day, it doesn’t matter. Any day is a good day for a heaping helping of some NFL.

With one exception.

Mother’s Day.

For years, the NFL avoided that day like the Plague for any its activities.

“We don’t mess with Mom,” a former Browns executive once told me with a chuckle as he shook his head. “We’re not touching that one. Nope. Next We leave Mom alone.”

That’s so everybody in the NFL, from players to coaches to executives, and everybody in between, can go home and spend time with Mom on her big day.

Mom is the only thing more powerful in the NFL. You-know-where hath no fury like a woman scorned.

Now, of course, the season is far removed from when Mother’s Day is observed each year on the second Sunday of May. So, it’s not that any games have to be moved. Rather, it’s rookie mini camps, held just after the NFL Draft, that sometimes conflict with Mother’s Day.

It used to be that, when such was the case, the teams just waited a week to hold the mini camps. Come on, it’s the spring, so what difference does it make if you just move it back?

Seems simple enough, right?

Yes. Certainly.

Uh, not so fast, my friend.

The NFL has started bulldozing its way through Mother’s Day as well.
Not all the teams all the time, mind you, but some teams some of the time. The Browns were one of the teams to hold their rookie mini camp this weekend, despite Mother’s Day being observed.

Really?

Really??

I think that’s an extremely poor move, one that lacks any common-sense judgment. It’s disrespectful, brazen, short-sighted and just plain stupid, ignorant.

The NFL decision–makers, better give Mom her day back, or else they’ll be put into the timeout chair. And nobody wants the timeout chair.

Steve King