“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: 

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