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I was ready to throw things at the TV listening to him…not impressed.
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Next announcement will be something about “spending more time with the family.”
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In addition to Goodell, the team owner’s are the ones who tell Goodell what to do. The owners need their a$$es chewed long and hard.
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When I tried to close my eyes to listen to him, I could swear I heard Chris Christie (his new BFF) almost word for word expressing his regrets, foibles, and blind spots. He was definitely channeling the ghost of Crispy Creme. “Mistakes were made”, “I’m ashamed”, “I got it wrong”, “I shouldn’t have put my trust in some of what I heard”. He should have just said… “I’m reading off of a statement re-written by our PR department to express better contrition for all of you, since ya’ll weren’t satisfied enough the first time around”…That would have been more honest.
Fuck him. This is what you call a Friday night news dump anyway. And man, does he stink. He ain’t worth $42 million bucks…that’s for sure. Damage control doesn’t come cheap these days I guess.
His answer about keeping Mueller on as an investigator, regardless of his conflict of interest, wasn’t very satisfying an answer either. Tone deaf to the max.
And what was up with that guy who interrupted the news conference with yelling and weird behavior? Maybe he was put up to it by Goodell or the owners so that everyone would be talking about that instead of his empty comments.
Eh, when in doubt…form a commission to study the matter. As if there isn’t enough research out there about domestic violence. What a jerk.
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The problem starts at the NCAA level. College athletes (lets call them professional college athletes) are given far too much leniency towards their assorted bad behaviors. Schools should expel athletes found guilty of sexual assault, girlfriend beating, and other crimes, and the NFL should not draft them.
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Please, stick around like Chris Christie. What else could possibly go wrong when one has such bad judgment and lies to the people he’s supposed to serve?
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His family knows he’s liar now, too. One can only assume that its not going to be one big happy family for now on if he stays or goes.
Hit them all in the wallet where their collective consciences are.
Press the federal government to end the NFL’s tax-exempt status. Pressure state and local governments to decline to pay for new stadiums and stadium improvements with tax dollars.
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as a boy, even into my 20s, i used to watch 3 pro games minimum and frequent college games every week. now i can’t even stand to watch the espn highlights. if they’ve lost somebody like me, who lived and breathed football for so long, then they should really read the writing on the wall-i can hardly imagine the alienation they’ve caused throughout the country.
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“…The same mistakes can never be repeated…”
He doesn’t get it.
It isn’t about the response procedures the NFL can concoct. It’s about a professional sport that seems to be nurturing large numbers of violence-prone men. Aggression pays.
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He works for the owners, not the public. He’s just the face of the owners en masse. Much like the NRA works for the gun industry, and really not the public or your average sportsman.
By whom? The fans? They’re not going to do anything. This is a multi-billion a year not for profit organization. The owners are not going to do anything because this is about protecting the brand.
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Goodell: I’m Not Going Anywhere
Yeah Rog.
That’s what Christie thinks too.
But this is a long game brother.
And there’s no clock to run out.
jw1
Hell Dave, myself as well-- up until about 10 yrs ago.
Now? I’ll watch my hometown team, the Texans, IF they win.
The DVR allows me to gauge how much or how little I desire.
I’ve played every major sport at a high school-level or higher.
And I’ve become a soccer/futbol fan in the last 8 yrs-- since '06 World Cup.
A much easier game on the eye.
And while I played it in high school and college?
There’s so much more to it now than when I learned 35 years ago.
It’s like a whole new game.
Refreshing. Is what it is.
jw1
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Well, I was just driving in my car and heard a public radio news report that said thousands had lined up to return their Ray Rice replica jerseys.
I’ve got news for you. The problem starts at the high school level. This is where athletes get their BMOC ideas. They are pandered to in the name of keeping the star on the field. Once in college, free of any control by their families, it gets worse, with big $$$ as the driving force to keep stars on the field (Jamison Winston, anyone?). Any of them who make the NFL, now add the seduction of huge salaries to the mix and we have a population free of any restrictions, with the assets to satisfy any itch they may have. The whole system stinks. In the schools, the whole idea of the game being an extracurricular activity for student athletes has been turned on its head, and the pros are the payoff for them.
Famous last words.
I don’t understand why you are all upset. Did you really expect him to hold himself to the same standard that he holds the players too? Did you expect him to suspend himself? Dock his own salary? Never mind the fact that this is all a witch hunt and no matter what he did the angry masses would demand more. People just don’t punish themselves anyway. He wasn’t going to hold himself accountable even if it wasn’t a witch hunt.
In 1970, Johnny Rodgers was convicted of robbing an Omaha gas station while he was playing for the Nebraska Cornhuskers.
Not only was he not punished at all, by the law or the Cornhuskers or the NCAA, but in 1972 the NCAA gave him the Heisman Trophy.
But as far as malfeasance goes, Rogers is a saint compared to Goodell, who has led and still leads the coverup of the pandemic brain damage being suffered by football players from continual blows to the skull.
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