Excuse Me, What? Dalvin Cook Wanted To Change His Number To 4 Until He Realized It Would Cost Him $1.5 MILLION

This is everything from hilarious to so on brand for the NFL. They are finally letting players wear whatever number they want - mostly - except for one minor detail. They have to buy ALL the inventory of unsold jerseys at retail price. That's such an outrageous request that no one is going to do that. It's not worth $1.5 million for Cook to change his number from 33 to 4. Obviously he wore 4 at Florida State so the number is important to him.

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How is this the rule? You don't have to buy unsold jerseys if you get traded or switch teams. Those are still out there! We need to just let guys switch jersey numbers. Clem pointed it out, but do you know how sweet a running back looks wearing a single digit. 

I still stand by the fact that if Reggie wore 5 in the NFL he'd be an All-Pro. No doubt about it. He's one of the most electric college football players in recent memory. 25? That number stinks. I know decent NFL running backs wear it, but it stinks. That's the number of a 3rd down back and like Lesean McCoy. 

What I really want is the NFL to let quarterbacks wear jerseys in the 20s. Still the GOAT

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I want to see a quarterback wear 22 in the league. Lorenzen never looked right wearing 13 for the Giants. The man is 22. But back to the main point. The NFL finally seems to let people have fun. Jersey numbers? Who cares? You know who is on what team. I get that the linemen need it for illegal man downfield and all that jazz. But let everyone have some fun. Stop trying to charge them $1.5 Million for a jersey change.