I once thought the hardest thing about adulthood was putting a Weber grill cover back in place. Now? It’s believing anything that comes out of Roger Goodell’s offices.

Last week the NFL changed the start of the Steelers-Chiefs playoff game from early afternoon to deep into prime time, claiming an ice storm was expected during the day in Kansas City.

Although that storm didn’t quite materialize, the NFL apparently chose to err on the safe side. Protecting the game’s patrons, the quality of the game and the greater good of all humanity, the NFL swallowed hard and switched a valuable game to a TV-valued but rough-on-patrons start. Still, the NFL, bless its TV-flexing heart, claimed to be worried that rotten weather would put people at needless risk.

Sniff. I know, enough to make you sob.

But that was last week. This week? Well, several readers asked, but we chose Tim Crowe’s:

“The remaining teams are Green Bay at Atlanta, Pittsburgh at New England, winners to the Super Bowl. One game in the Georgia Dome, the other [outdoors] in Gillette Stadium. … So which game do you schedule for 3:05 and which for 6:40?

“Easy answer, right? [In January] you play the outdoor game in New England first, then the indoor game.

“Of course, the NFL does the opposite — with a Nor’easter climbing the East Coast. Does the NFL stand for No Feasible Logic?”

No, it stands for greed, primarily TV money. AFC/CBS, NFC/FOX yearly swap Conference championship starting times. The later game — prime-time ratings begin at 7 p.m. ET on Sundays — is deemed most valuable.

Unlike last week’s switched-to-prime-time game in K.C., the quality of the games and safety of the patrons counted for nothing. Common sense counts for nothing. Meteorological, seasonal and geographical logic counted for nothing. And Gillette Stadium is in Foxborough, Mass., a long schlep for most Pats patrons.

TV money counts for everything; everything and everyone else can go to hell.

Just as MLB teams never scheduled late Sunday night games because they’d make no purchasing sense to the ticket-buying public, MLB has sold many of its best-attraction games to ESPN for late Sunday night starts, often switching the start times after those who thought they were buying afternoon tickets instead of tickets to games that end near midnight.

It’s all the same. Too bad. Go to hell. The commissioners of both sports know their marching orders: TV money wins, places and shows.

And so we end this segment with a question: What are the chances that, with dangerous weather expected, the NFL would switch a prime-time game to a 1 p.m. start?

Broadcast with unnecessary graphic detail

At this point, it’s likely too late to persuade CBS to stop, or to at least examine what it’s doing to its college basketball telecasts, but CBS has fully embraced ZTD — zero-thought distracting — telecasts.

CBS’ any-stat/anytime interruptions are remarkably stupid. For example, Saturday, with play on and Kansas beating Texas, 53-49, CBS flashed this: “FGs this half — Texas 5/10, Kansas 5/9.”

If this were “Jeopardy!,” the answer would be: “What is ‘So what?’?”

Imagine being at the game and tapping a stranger on the shoulder while the game’s being played, to tell him, “Texas is 5/10 and KU is 5/9 on field-goal attempts, this half.” The guy would summon an usher, one with a straitjacket.

Yesterday, 3:30 into Georgetown-Xavier and play on, Xavier up, 5-4, CBS ambushed us with “Field Goals — Georgetown 2/4, Xavier 1/4.” Thanks you very little.

This week, as you watch — or try to watch — college basketball on TV, consider how many of the graphics you’re forced to consider aren’t worth your consideration.

But because TV execs and game producers rarely examine what they present us as a matter of habit and misguided ingenuity, we’ll continue to suffer from the ZTDs.

By the way, if points scored off of turnovers are so statistically noteworthy, why are points not scored after turnovers unimportant?

Amazing how clean, full-screen telecasts appear, as was Sunday’s Packers-Falcons on FOX, without crawls pushing fantasy league stats and Skip Bayless/Shannon Sharpe promos.

FOX’s Joe (“Ripkowski put it on the ground!”) Buck, slick-talking at the top of Packers-Falcons about the over-under number, is another who thinks someone in Vegas makes NFL betting lines. Vegas books set opening lines, but the gambling public establishes the final lines by betting into them; too much to either side moves those lines.

Quote of the Week: Ben Roethlisberger on him versus Tom Brady: “It’s a team game; we’re not playing tennis.”

Reader Ed Stufano wonders if we’ll soon see President Trump on ESPN, filling out his NCAA Tournament bracket. Not necessary; he already has Trump University vs. DeVry University in the final.

A Knicks-Carmelo Anthony divorce? Heck, lots of us still can’t figure why, in 2014, they renewed their vows.

If you haven’t seen video of Russell Westbrook called for traveling, last week, find it. Giving directions to his offense, he walked the ball up, not bothering to dribble until his sixth step. Hysterical.

HBO to show powerful ALS doc

HBO Real Sports correspondent Jon Frankel in 2012 produced an up-close-and-extremely personal documentary with former NFL and Alabama running back/battering ram Kevin Turner, who was then 42 and two years into dying the hard way — steadily and inexorably from ALS. ESPN aired the doc as part of its “30 for 30” series.

Frankel and Turner, who died last year, remained close. Tuesday at 10 p.m. on HBO, Frankel’s down-to-the-end-and-a-bit-beyond post-mortem appears. Powerful stuff.

A side note: Turner’s son, Nolan, is a freshman on Clemson’s national title team, coached by Dabo Swinney — his dad’s roomie at Alabama.

Time for colleges and TV to thank taxpayers “for making this game possible.”

Tuesday on ESPNU, taxpayer-funded New Mexico played 942 miles away at taxpayer-funded Boise State.

New Mexico’s starting five was recruited from Sudan, Arkansas, North Carolina, Illinois and California. BSU’s had two from California, one each from Colorado, Texas and Australia.

As long as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has thrown his hat into the sports radio ring, why not use his double-muscle to right some sports wrongs?

For starters, the Mets’ “Winter Special” is a “No Fees” tickets purchase come-on. Imagine that — the price of the ticket is the price of tickets! More evidence that these tack-on fees are what they stink like: unrestricted scams.

We could use a high-ranking, sports-minded politician to protect his sports-minded constituents from all forms of unholy money-grabs, no?