Well, the bloom is off another rose.

For the past few years, the Army-Navy game had begun to take on all the characteristics of the usual garbage. A game celebrated and cherished for the development of future officers and gentlemen began to erode as a feel-extra-good watch.

This past Saturday’s Army-Navy game was laced with trash talk, personal fouls, post-play shoving and mean-mugging, and at the end, a two-team sideline hassle, making it tough for even pandering TV voices to ignore.

CBS analyst Gary Danielson at the telecast’s close: “This was the chippiest Army-Navy game I have done.” He had done the last dozen.

The weekend was again loaded with billion-dollar pro and college football operations undermined by the mindlessly undisciplined.

On BTN, Maryland lost to Rutgers because the Terps would not take “No” for an answer. They insisted upon losing.

Rutgers’ starting quarterback, Noah Vedral, was forced out when his ankle was twisted and mangled — post-tackle — by 6-foot-2, 330-pound DT Ami Finau. From the BTN booth, Joe Beninati and James Laurinaitis hinted it was a dirty play, then dropped it.

In the third quarter, Maryland gave up a 10-yard run and first down to Rutgers. RU’s ball carrier Kay’Ron Adams was shoved back to the ground by the player who tackled him. Fifteen yards, another first down.

Rutgers scored a TD on that possession to take the lead. The BTN crew said nothing about that changed-the-entire-game penalty, but instead discussed “eye discipline.” Maryland was hit with 12 accepted penalties for 131 yards!

And as such losses proliferate and the expense of winning escalates, where are the multimillion-dollar coaches on Day 1 of practice to declare, “Not one inch are we to lose to stupid, me-first, macho-man penalties. Not one inch!”?

But now more games are lost to them than ever.

LSU upset Florida on a late field goal kicked only because Florida CB Marco Wilson, after a third-down stop, ripped away an opponent’s shoe, then flung it downfield. LSU was gift-wrapped 15 yards, a first down and soon the winning field goal.

Last week, Chiefs WR Tyreek Hill became the TV darling of the simple-minded when, about to score a TD, he stopped to perform an all-about-me, multiple-risks backflip into the end zone.

This past Saturday, Iowa WR Ihmir Smith-Marsette tried to do a front-flip into the end zone. He spent this week limping in a walking boot. On CBS, pandering “NFL Today” host James Brown, who was delighted by Hill’s brainless acrobatics, ignored Smith-Marsette’s troubles.

Never have players been less aware of significant game circumstances. Sunday on Fox, the Eagles, against the Saints, had no timeouts left, 40 seconds left in the half, when Philly RB Boston Scott caught a second-down sideline pass.

Instead of running a few yards, then stepping out of bounds to stop the clock, he cut to the inside and then rose to give that tired “Look what I did!” first-down signal — as QB Jalen Hurts hurried his team to the line to spike the ball.

And the Miami Hurricanes, as if they need help recruiting the behaviorally dubious, wore all-black uniforms — in a 62-26 loss to UNC.

It grows worse. Love it or leave it.

I know that as a traditionalist — and a proud one, too — I’m supposed to lament the politically correct loss of Redskins and now Indians as big league names.

I’m also supposed to fear that Braves, Chiefs, Seminoles and Blackhawks will be next.

But Braves, Chiefs, Seminoles and Blackhawks salute the nobility and presence of Native North Americans. Redskins and Indians do not — they designate only race.

Not all politically correct endeavors are incorrect. Redskins and Indians bothered me since I was a kid. I’m not sorry to see either go. Call me what you will, but we can do better.

To take a team’s name too seriously seems a waste of sensibility and sensitivity. I like Washington Football Club. It’s to the point and inoffensive to even the most sensitive. It’s like old sod soccer teams as in FC — Football Club.

As for Cleveland, we could go with the Grover Clevelands — the mascot being Grover from “Sesame Street.” Heck, Grover Cleveland may even be less offensive than Abe Lincoln suddenly has become.

Still, the best idea never adopted was when former Reds infielder Chris Sabo ran a new minor league club in Florence, SC. Interviewing Sabo, Dan Patrick suggested they be called the Florence Hendersons.

Once again, we’re left to ask if there is no one at any network who can provide useful advice to their game callers. And, once again, we know the answer.

In ex-Jet Jonathan Vilma, Fox has another Moose Johnston. Vilma was the analyst on Sunday’s Cardinals-Giants game. And as reader Dan Cella wrote on Monday morning, “It is now 1:20 a.m. and I still hear Jonathan Vilma talking.”

Producers do analysts no favors from the start of telecasts. Vilma’s posted “Keys To The Game” for the Giants began with “No turnovers.” For the Cards it was “Protect (QB Kyler) Murray,” “Be more efficient offensively” and “Force at least two turnovers.” Such insights!

Or as reader Bill (Bedrock) Maroney writes, “Vil-maaaaaaa!!!”

Johnston, on Fox’s Saints-Eagles, after Kevin Burkhardt said Philly has been forced to start 12 different offensive linemen, went into one of his long spiels, this one on how OL shortages create disadvantages for teams. Who knew?

Sunday, with Seattle up, 14-3, against the Jets late in the first half, the Seahawks kicked a field goal on fourth down to go up by 14. Just before that, CBS’s Rich Gannon said he’d choose to go for a first down. He never said why he’d pass on the chance, before the half, to lead by 14.

Monday night, ESPN’s Louis Riddick observed that an incomplete pass — nothing more complicated than that — was thrown “outside the receiver’s catch radius.”

As Groucho Marx said to movie audiences in 1932, “I’ve got to stay here, but there’s no reason why you folks shouldn’t go out into the lobby until this thing blows over.”

Graphics of the Week: Winner — Fox displayed a large one noting that Giants QB Daniel Jones’ “37 turnovers are the most in NFL since 2019.”

Runner-up — Fox, with startling, screaming and a repeated bright red graphic: “BREAKING NEWS: Chiefs have clinched the AFC West.” Idiots.

Man of the Week: Michigan State WR Jalen Nailor, after catching a long TD pass, turned and flipped the ball to the nearest game official. Nike could not have been pleased.

Last Place — Kyrie Irving, who, after declaring his vow of silence, didn’t shut up.