What I’d love to know is that if this was a different team, and they did the same thing, would the gd OWNERS (who before today, I thought weren’t even involved with the operation of the league, thought that was what HO was for) have stepped in and changed the punishment?

This needs to be changed, this is a complete farce. Why do we even have a HO who is paid to make the big decisions, if their final, rule based decisions can be overruled just like *that*?? Like what kind of precedent does this set for future rules that are broken?