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The NFL peaked during the “Super Seventies.”

The league’s racial dynamics have gotten worse and worse with every year roughly since Dwight Clark made “The Catch.”

I still follow the NFL scores and highlights at a rather minimal level, if only to support the shrinking minority of white players still remaining.

Back in the Super Seventies, you still had black players who were sportsmen and deserved to be on that field for their talent and grit. My beloved Shula-era Miami Dolphins had Paul Warfield and Larry Little, but the team was still largely white.

These black players today are nothing like that. I can’t even recognize them as fellow Americans.

And as for the white players — if I had a son, would I want him to play a violent sport largely dominated by criminals?

Harsh words, these. And yes, there are plenty of decent black people out there.

But I don’t think many of them are playing in the NFL.

Unless the racial dynamics of the NFL change 180 degrees, things will only get worse.

In a nation of 330 million people, there simply has to be roughly 1,600 young men with the skill and discipline to play this uniquely American game as it was meant to be played.

The problem here is that the putatively “gifted,” i.e. the blacks, are no longer the disciplined. The white minority endures a stigma of athletic mediocrity, regardless of the fact that white players do well on the rare occasions they are allowed to. For example, it took the Vikings’ Adam Thielen four years to emerge as a top wide receiver.

Personally, whether it’s sports, business, volunteer organizations or whatever, I would prefer to lead a team that’s disciplined and committed than a bunch of prima donnas.

But that’s not our world today.