On occasion, the invisible hand of the NFL taps ESPN on the shoulder and reminds the Worldwide Leader who really runs the show. We saw it with Playmakers. We saw it with the Frontline concussion documentary . More often than not, though, what you see is something like the video above, taken from the past day of ESPN's coverage of the Ray Rice suspension, in which you find network personality after network personality expressing a seemingly reflexive sympathy for the league's position.