The NFL goes pink each October for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.(Photo: Steve Mitchell, USA TODAY Sports)

Mary Jo Kane, a lifelong Chicago Bears fan and college professor, settles in to watch a football game and finds herself taking a tally of the players — one she’d rather not do, but can’t help.

Have any of these guys committed a crime? Tried to strangle a wife? Knocked one out? Beaten a child?

The NFL has an image problem. Some would say it’s at a moral crossroads as focus on abuse alleg