How Much of the Severity was Personal between Goodell and SP?
He was lied to about Spygate. It spanned over half a decade of wrongdoing. The Pats denied it at first. They didn't heed the warnings given.
Yet, they get no suspensions for actually cheating. They lost a single draft pick and Belichick got off with only losing $500,000 (that compared to the 7 million Payton is going to lose).
This was more then just being lied to. This was a combination of him taking it personally, while having no personal connection to our franchise and no real value for it. If this were a major market or Robert Kraft's team we'd of gotten exactly what spygate got. Guaranteed.
Goodell is a huge hypocrite.