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Since Simmons also used swear words in the podcast that got him suspended, ESPN can say that was why they made him sit in the corner, not for calling Goodell a liar. A lot of people have been calling Goodell a liar all along.
True, but very few of them work for a company that partners with the NFL. As long as ESPN holds the Monday Night Football franchise, for which it is paying the NFL $15.2 billion through 2021, more than a little servile obedience will be displayed where the NFL commissioner is concerned.
Get 'em, Bill!
“ESPN’s journalistic standards,”
Which apparently include boot-licking and ass-sniffing the commissioner of the NFL.
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Good for Simmons. The ESPN bosses didn’t become bosses by being Boy Scouts or moral creatures. They are filthy corporate lucre-ists in awe of Goodell/NFL’s ability to mint money and share it with them. ESPN, like ABC News, is owned by Disney Inc., a corporation that has repeatedly proved it has no journalistic or ethical standards beyond selling its few remaining scruples for 30 pieces of silver every day and in every way.
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Or boot-sniffing and ass-licking…
He uses swear words all the time and they don’t suspend him for it, his podcast even has a disclaimer about mature language so that argument won’t work for them.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that…
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ESPN: “We have worked hard to ensure that our recent NFL coverage has met that criteria.”
TRANSLATION: “We spent a boatload of cash to get the rights to Monday Night Football which, in turn, makes us an even bigger boatload of cash. ESPN will kiss any butt in the NFL offices to make sure we keep them happy, journalistic integrity be damned.”
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That would work well - it would follow their buddy Goodell’s precedent of imposing the same punishment twice while varying their interpretation of what happened.