PHILADELPHIA — The tush push took a beating on Sunday.
While the Eagles won the game in Kansas City, we all saw they may have lost their signature play.
Days were already numbered for the tush push, which the league tried twice to outlaw last spring, ultimately falling just two votes shy of the 75% threshold among owners.
But in an age of wildly unfounded conspiracy theories, here’s one that tracks: Sunday’s telecast was a designed ambush by the NFL and FOX — cohorts enjoined in a lucrative, gluttonous partnership — to get rid of the tush push.
It was an oily plot hatched months ahead. In fact, I’d bet the exact date of its conception was May 22, the morning after the vote came up short.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, who has spent his tenure trying to legislate more passing, wants t