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G'dell is the type to eventually destroy himself in some way. Hopefully sooner than later.
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G'dell is the type to eventually destroy himself in some way. Hopefully sooner than later.
Peter Ginsberg, the coach's lawyer, told Goodell the coach had an unblemished record through two decades in the league as a coach and a player. He was embarrassed and devastated by the DUI arrest, which was knocked down to reckless driving, and Ginsberg asked Goodell to look at the situation with some compassion.
Goodell suddenly stood up. "He turned bright red," Ginsberg recalls, "and screamed at me that I should not lecture him about what was right and wrong." Then Goodell walked out of the room. (A league source says Goodell only raised his voice.) The coach was fined and suspended.
I don't know about anyone else, but I want those who fight for our freedom & those who play the game we love to keep their "warrior mentality". If this nut job gets his way, we'll have flag football pretty soon.The NFL commissioner swaps ideas with four-star Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III about how to better protect the brains of the young people who fight America's wars and play America's game. They also discuss changing the "warrior mentality" among soldiers and players, who keep fighting and playing through pain.
B.S. Report: Don Van Natta Jr. - The Triangle Blog - Grantland
BS Report with the author of the article. He looked over all the bountygate evidence and came up with the same conclusions that we have been saying since it started. They also have a chuckle about Goodell being a "victim."
"The criticism ought to go to us," says Mara, the Giants owner. "Roger wasn't doing anything ownership didn't want."
SIX AND A HALF years into Goodell's tenure, his billionaire bosses believe the man who dreamed of being commissioner as a teenager is perfectly suited to lead the league through its most perilous time. They paid him $29.5 million in 2011, and in January 2012 he signed a five-year contract extension. Robert Kraft, the Patriots owner, says Goodell runs the NFL as if he owns it -- the league literally belongs to him. Jerry Jones, the Cowboys owner, says Goodell cares so much about the game that he "totally emptied his bucket -- everything he's got -- and put his life into the NFL."
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones calls Goodell a "grow-the-pie thinker" for his ability to increase revenues.
AP Photo/Mary Altaffer
As part of his mission, Goodell often tells audiences a favorite story: More than a century ago, before there was an NFL, President Theodore Roosevelt saved football with the blunt force of his visionary leadership. In 1904, 18 student-athletes died playing the game, mostly from skull fractures. A devout fan, Roosevelt convened the coaches from Harvard, Yale and Princeton to a White House meeting. The innovations that were adopted -- the forward pass, the founding of the NCAA -- helped propel an endangered game into the modern era.
The history lesson not only places Goodell in Roosevelt's shoes and the current worries about player safety into a historical context, it also portends one of his greatest fears: An NFL player is going to die on the field.
OTL: His Game, His Rules - ESPN
I think the article illuminates a much broader picture of Goodell-- hence "For Better or Worse". I think it's plain to see the owners are happy, the union foments distrust (for obvious reasons: he bludgeoned them at the bargaining table) and shows the human nature of strong-willed personalities, that in spite of all of their good intentions, they are still human beings and are susceptible to failure. How the NFL's ultimate disposition plays out over the next few decades in the aftermath of this transition will allow history to judge. It's far too great a task for any man of this day to do, IMO.
ESPN has exclusively obtained Bountygate documents including confidential transcripts of the private four-day appeal hearing held by former commissioner Tagliabue late last year. The documents show an investigation remarkable for its limited scope -- only one Saints player spoke to investigators, for example -- and for damning accusations that league officials quietly retracted in later memos or chose not to introduce as evidence.