What Does It Take to Get Roger Goodell Fired?

[joeybee12]

I don’t know if I believe that the NFL hadn’t seen the Ray Rice elevator footage before it was released by TMZ on Monday morning. It’s just impossible. The NFL is the most powerful league on earth, with unlimited funds and its own security team to gather evidence whenever players are investigated. If TMZ could get the video, the NFL could have gotten the video.

Then again, it’s just as impossible to imagine that anyone with the league could have watched that video and decided that two games was the right suspension for Rice. So who knows what really happened? Depending on how you look at things, the NFL is either incompetent and irresponsible, or inhumane and reprehensible.

And that last sentence could double as a description of everything pro football’s become with Roger Goodell in charge.

Monday’s news came on the heels of Goodell promising to get tough on domestic violence. On August 28, he told the world he “didn’t get it right” with the original Rice decision, and he promised mandatory domestic-violence suspensions for NFL players: six games for first-time offenders, and a lifetime ban for repeat offenders (but with the chance to apply for reinstatement after a year).

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/what-does-it-take-to-get-roger-goodell-fired-2/

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

1. Good article

ESPN Sports Nation has a poll up right now on whether Goodall should resign. Right now 49% say he should resign.

Given the conservative nature of pro-sports I'm surprised it's that close.

http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/polls

[joeybee12]

2. Roger is paying everyone at the NFL offices to vote in the poll...nt

[RagAss]

3. Think about this Joybee....

This fucker can black-out a television broadcast of the activity taking place in a fucking stadium that my tax dollars helped pay for one mile from my fucking house!!!!. He is stronger than Congress. He has more power in this country than the Catholic Church(because at least the abuse scandal cost them $$). And you have the temerity to ask what it takes to fire this Fucking King ????
Please.

[joeybee12]

7. Is your answer: "Nothing"

As in nothing can be done? All I know is he's replaced Selig as the worst comissioner of a professional sport...ever.

[RagAss]

18. I agree. He makes Selig look like Pete Rozelle.

[Jamaal510]

17. Good point.

"This fucker can black-out a television broadcast of the activity taking place in a fucking stadium that my tax dollars helped pay for one mile from my fucking house!!!! He is stronger than Congress."

[TBF]

4. The news is coming out of the AP that the video was sent

to the NFL in APRIL. NFL headquarters denies seeing it. He's toast.

[RagAss]

5. He works for the owners. They will never fire him.

And they don't give a fuck about anything but $$$$. Read my previous post in this thread if you doubt that.

[TBF]

6. You never know - the owners are quicker to turn on people

and each other than the rest of us are.

BTW, I like your sig line.

[hughee99]

9. Some of the owners don't like him, and if they think keeping Goodell will cause them to lose $$$$

they'll drop him like a hot potato. He's easily replaceable.

[Auggie]

14. I agree -- lose money and he's gone

[TSIAS]

8. It's over

I think Goodell is about to get "Bye Felicia'd".

[madinmaryland]

10. You may not get the result you were expecting by having Goodell fired...

NFL Commissioner Condaleeza Rice.

[joeybee12]

11. I suppose a war criminal is worse than Goodell...nt

[madinmaryland]

12. Heh! Maybe you should have thought that post though before posting it...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1204&pid=46761

[joeybee12]

13. I thought day and night over that one...nt

[madinmaryland]

15. Gee. cboy4 used to say the same thing!!

[joeybee12]

16. And why is that?