“The NFL sees this as a PR issue and not a serious PR issue because that would require more time,” said Allen Linton II, a University of Chicago doctoral student in political science and former educator at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture. “It’s shortsighted and speaks to the arrogance of the league. ‘Hey, we’re the No. 1-watched program, we have more fans than anyone, you walk down the street and everyone is in our jerseys. We have Thursday, Sundays and Mondays on lockdown. We’ll be OK. We’re not going to spend the same amount of care and energy to get this right. We’ll spend enough to get us by.’ ”