Showing posts with label NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. Show all posts

Sunday, February 1, 2015

BULL! NFL's more popular than ever!!

February 01, 2015 Apnews.myway.com , Eddie Pells 0 Comments
Super Bowl The Final Act Of The NFL's Worst Season

By Eddie Pells, Jan. 31, 2015, APNews.MyWay.com

PHOENIX (AP) — Domestic violence. Questionable discipline. Player safety. Confusing officiating. Deflated footballs.

The disturbing headlines that began last February never slowed down for the NFL this season. The problems — most of them made worse by the ineffectual handling — mushroomed into an imperfect storm that hurt the league's credibility and turned the lead-up to Sunday's Super Bowl into a time for damage control, not celebration.

"It never ceases," said Orin Starn, a Duke professor who studies sports in society. "It was one crisis and PR challenge after another and I didn't envy Roger Goodell at all."

At the commissioner's contentious news conference Friday — Goodell fielded one question about whether he thought he should be fired and another about taking a pay cut — he was hit with a barrage of questions that spoke to the wide range of problems that punctured the league's integrity, though not its popularity.
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Saturday, January 31, 2015

Yeah, but he made $44mil the year before, so…1

January 31, 2015 Mike Florio , NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell 0 Comments
FLASHBACK:  NFL's Goodell Seeks To Look Past 'Tough Year,' To Future

Source: www.NyDailyNews.com 
By Mike Florio, Feb. 14, 2014, ProFootballTalk.com

Commissioner Roger Goodell made $44.2 million last year. But he didn’t actually make$44.2 million.

In actuality, he earned $35.1 million in salary, bonus, and pension compensation for the one-year period (ending March 31, 2013) covered by the Form 1099, filed by all tax-exempt organizations. The compensation also includes a $5 million incentive payment and a $4.1 million pension payment from the year of the work stoppage, which was paid in 2012.

In other words, Goodell’s compensation of nearly $30 million in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2012 was $9.1 million too light. It should have been nearly $39 million that year, with only $35.1 million earned the following 12 months.

Which means he actually made roughly $4 million less from one year to the next.

Apart from the explanation, which once the numbers get above $10 million don’t really matter to 99.99999 percent of us, the league has defended Goodell’s high wages via a stream of quotes from owners serving on the Compensation Committee.

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Sunday, September 21, 2014

Sermon from a man who pled to obstruction of justice!

September 21, 2014 Domestic Violence , ESPN 0 Comments
Ray Lewis, ESPN Analyst, Talks About Covering Up Crimes

 By Troy Machir, Sept. 21, 2014, Sportingnews.com



Former Ravens star linebacker Ray Lewis was on ESPN's NFL pregame show on Sunday morning, discussing the major off-the-field issues of the past two weeks.

When the discussion turned to the matter of the handling of the Ray Rice tape by his former employer, Lewis provided his thoughts, but used a certain phrase that someone like Ray Lewis probably should have stayed miles away from.

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Saturday, September 20, 2014

Did he save his job?

Did he save his job?

September 20, 2014 CBS News , Child Abuse 0 Comments
Roger Goodell: ‘The Same Mistakes Can Never Be Repeated’


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Thursday, September 18, 2014

On Domestic Violence, NFL Uses NOW's Playbook By Larry Elder

September 18, 2014 Bill Clinton , Domestic Violence 0 Comments
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell
Source:  www.sonofwashington.com
By Larry Elder, Sept. 18, 2014

When NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell handed down a mere a two-game suspension for domestic violence, he took his cue from some of the very same women's groups now calling for his head.

Goodell first suspended Ray Rice, a star player, for two games four months after Rice's grand jury indictment for third-degree aggravated assault. A hotel video showing Rice dragging his then-fiancee's limp body out of an elevator "went viral." Rice reportedly admitted to Goodell that he punched her in the face, knocking her down. For this, Goodell suspended Rice just two games.

The protests over the light punishment turned to screams when another video became public, this one showing Rice inside the elevator delivering the punch. Why did it take that video to understand the gravity of the offense? After all, even without the video, one knew that Rice's now-wife didn't slip on a bar of soap.

Among those crying foul is the National Organization for Women. NOW President Terry O'Neill said: "The NFL has lost its way. It doesn't have a Ray Rice problem; it has a violence against women problem. ... The only workable solution is for Roger Goodell to resign and for his successor to appoint an independent investigator with full authority to gather factual data about domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking within the NFL community and to recommend real and lasting reforms."

What about NOW's indifference toward, if not acceptance of, the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's sordid record of disgusting behavior toward women?

In 1990, Gentlemen's Quarterly published an expose of Kennedy that would have brought down the career of virtually any politician, including a legacy lefty fawned over by the media. According to the piece, Kennedy was not merely a drunken skirt chaser; he was a criminal serial sexual predator:

"As (waitress Carla) Gaviglio enters the room, the six-foot-two, 225-plus-pound Kennedy grabs the five-foot-three, 103-pound waitress and throws her on the table. She lands on her back, scattering crystal, plates and cutlery and the lit candles. Several glasses and a crystal candlestick are broken. Kennedy then picks her up from the table and throws her on (Sen. Chris) Dodd, who is sprawled in a chair. With Gaviglio on Dodd's lap, Kennedy jumps on top and begins rubbing his genital area against hers, supporting his weight on the arms of the chair. As he is doing this, another waitress enters the room. She and Gaviglio both scream, drawing one or two dishwashers. Startled, Kennedy leaps up. He laughs. Bruised, shaken and angry over what she considered a sexual assault, Gaviglio runs from the room."

Perhaps the NFL took its cue from NOW's embrace of Bill Clinton, about whom liberal British journalist Christopher Hitchens said was credibly accused of rape three times. Hitchens, author of the book "No One Left to Lie To," appeared in 1999 on the ABC show "Politically Incorrect": "Mr. Clinton is a rapist. ... Believably accused three times of rape. ... I operate on the presumption of guilt. ... I can't convict anybody, but I'm not going to say Juanita Broaddrick is a liar, because everything she says checks out, and President Clinton hasn't denied it yet. He won't comment on the accusations. It's not his word against hers -- and if it was, it would be the word of a psychopathic liar."

Perhaps Goodell took his cue from the non-reaction to Juanita Broaddrick's appearance on Dateline NBC where she accused Bill Clinton of rape: "Stupid me, I ordered coffee to the room," she said. "I thought we were going to talk about the campaign." On NBC's "Dateline," a tearful Broaddrick said: "I first pushed him away. I just told him 'no.' ... He tries to kiss me again. He starts biting on my lip. ... And then he forced me down on the bed. I just was very frightened. I tried to get away from him. I told him 'no.' ... He wouldn't listen to me."

Or perhaps Goodell took his cue from the non-reaction to Kathleen Willey. Willey, a former White House volunteer and self-described "good friend" of the then-president, appeared on "60 Minutes" and accused Clinton of sexual battery.

"I just told him that my husband was in financial difficulty and that things were at a crisis point," said Willey, "and that my volunteer days were over, that I needed a regular paying job and could he help me." But in a small room just off the Oval Office, she says, Clinton hugged and kissed her. When she tried to push him away, "he touched my breasts with his hand ... and then he whispered ... 'I've wanted to do this ever since I laid eyes on you.' ... He took my hand, and he put it ... on his genitals."

Ted Kennedy was lionized. Bill Clinton is adored. Accusers Broaddrick, Willey, Paula Jones and Gennifer Flowers have been ignored, dismissed or branded as liars. Where was NOW then?

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Monday, September 15, 2014

League's on trial

September 15, 2014 Baltimore Ravens , Curtis Skinner 0 Comments
Women's Group To Fly Banner Over NFL Stadium Calling For Goodell Ouster

NFL Commissioner Rodger Goodell
Source:  Kyle Terada / USA Today Sports
By Curtis Skinner, Dan Whitcomb and Kim Coghil, Sept. 13, 2014, Reuters.com

(Reuters) - A women's rights group will fly banners over pro football stadiums on Sunday calling on NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to resign over his handling of former Baltimore Ravens star Ray Rice's domestic violence case, the group said.

The organization, UltraViolet, said it will fly banners reading, "#GoodellMustGo," over stadiums in Cleveland, New Jersey and San Francisco ahead of Sunday games. The group says it also will fly the message before a Monday night game to be played in Indianapolis.

The demonstration comes as the league scrambles to manage criticism over its handling of Ray Rice, who was suspended for only two games in July after he knocked out his then-fiancée and now-wife Janay Palmer with a punch to the face.

The three-time Pro Bowler was cut by the Ravens and indefinitely suspended from the league earlier this week after celebrity news website TMZ on Monday published a security video of the incident taken inside a New Jersey casino elevator.

"It is time for Roger Goodell to resign, and for the NFL to get serious about its commitment to ending violence against women within the league," UltraViolet co-founder Nita Chaudhary said in a written statement.

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What about pass given Bill Clinton?

September 15, 2014 Fishwrapper.com , Janay Rice 0 Comments
What DOES the NFL Stand For--Does Goodell Need to Go?

By Sarah Taylor, Sept. 15, 2014, Fishwrapper.com

The big questions are being asked this week: what does the NFL mean for women, and how will the seemingly rampant domestic violence against both ladies and children be eradicated if those perpetrating the violence aren't being properly punished for their insidious infractions?

Two women's coalitions, Ultra Violent and the National Organization, have taken matters into their own hands and have begun flying banners two hours prior to game time saying, "Roger Goodell Must Go."

In the latest development, Adrian Peterson has been reinstated to play against the Saints in the upcoming game week ... which is yet another despicable move by his team, and ultimately the NFL, in light of the fact that he beat his 4-year-old child with a switch to the point of bleeding.

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Sunday, September 14, 2014

That's union's job

September 14, 2014 Baltimore Ravens , CBS News 0 Comments
NFL Players Union May Appeal Ray Rice’s Indefinite Suspension

By Mike Hellgren, Sept. 12, 2014, Baltimore.cbslocal.com

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — New developments in the ongoing Ray Rice saga. The players union left open the possibility it will fight Rice’s indefinite suspension from the league.

Investigator Mike Hellgren has more on what the NFL commissioner told the union in a new letter.

In the letter, Commissioner Roger Goodell says the video shows “a starkly different sequence of events” from what Rice and representatives told him at a meeting. But once again, anonymous sources are denying Goodell’s version of events.

The players union may appeal Ray Rice’s indefinite suspension from the NFL. In a new formal letter to the union, the commissioner says Rice met with him in June and never told him about the punch.

He described that meeting in his exclusive CBS interview.

“When we met with Ray Rice and his representatives, it was ambiguous about what actually happened,” Goodell said.

But four sources tell ESPN Rice clearly mentioned the punch: “A fifth source with knowledge of the meeting said Rice only told Goodell he had slapped his fiancee.”

“As a man, I can’t believe that he saw that video and gave a two-game suspension,” said Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti.

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Thursday, September 11, 2014

Payback time in N'awlins

September 11, 2014 Domestic Violence , Janay Rice 0 Comments
Hold Roger Goodell To Standard He Set For Saints--And Fire Him: Editorial

Rodger Godell
Credit:  AP/Seth Wenig
Source:  www.nola.com
By Editorial Board, Sept. 10, 2014, Nola.com / The Time Picayune

The NFL requires players to avoid "conduct detrimental to the integrity of and public confidence in the National Football League." The same standard should apply to Commissioner Roger Goodell.

And based on that standard, Mr. Goodell should be removed.

The commissioner not only botched the punishment of former Ravens running back Ray Rice for punching his then-fiancée in an Atlantic City casino elevator, but his claim that the league wasn't given a video of the assault now seems false.

The Associated Press reported Wednesday afternoon that a law enforcement official said he sent the video showing Mr. Rice knocking out fiancée Janay Palmer to an NFL executive five months ago. Mr. Goodell and the league office have insisted they didn't see the brutal punch until this week when TMZ released the video.

But the law enforcement official allowed The Associated Press to listen to an April 9 voicemail from an NFL office number that confirmed the video had been received. According to the AP report, a woman expresses thanks and says, "You're right. It's terrible."

When asked by AP about the voicemail Wednesday, league officials still said no one had seen the video before this week.

Hours after fans began sharing the video posted by TMZ Monday, the Ravens cut the All Pro running back and the NFL made his suspension indefinite.

It is impossible to believe no one at the NFL had seen the video before this week. The claim was already suspect before the AP's news report Wednesday afternoon. The league has vast resources and power, and it had been clear for months that Ms. Palmer -- who is now married to Mr. Rice -- had been knocked out in the elevator in February.

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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

50 Senators Tell NFL To Rename Redskins (Video) --How about working on, you know, things like jobs, the economy...

May 28, 2014 Adam Silver , Donald Sterling 0 Comments
By Steven Dennis, May 22, 2014, Blogs.rollcall.com

Half of the Senate is urging NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to change the name of the Washington Redskins.

A letter led by Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., signed by 49 senators who caucus with the Democrats, urges Goodell to use NBA Commissioner Adam Silver’s decision to ban Los Angeles Clippers’ owner Donald Sterling as a precedent.

“Today, we urge you and the National Football League to send the same clear message as the NBA did: that racism and bigotry have no place in professional sports. It’s time for the NFL to endorse a name change for the Washington, D.C. football team.”

The senators called the name a slur against Native Americans.

“Every Sunday during football season, the Washington, D.C. football team mocks their culture. The NFL can no longer ignore this and perpetuate the use of this name as anything but what it is: a racial slur.”

Signers included Maryland’s two senators, Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin. The Redskins play their home games in Maryland.

Reid has repeatedly called on the NFL to change the name, including last month on the Senate floor, when he urged the league to change the name and end what he called the Redskins’ “tradition of racism.”

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Monday, May 26, 2014

Redskins President Send Letter To Sen. Harry Reid --Says team logo was designed by Native American leaders

May 26, 2014 Annenberg Public Policy Center , NFL 0 Comments
By CBS Washington D.C., May 24, 2014

LANHAM, Md. (CBSDC) — When NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell received a letter from 50 Senators urging the league to endorse a name change for the Washington Redskins, President Bruce Allen responded with his own letter to Senator Harry Reid on Friday.

In Allen’s letter to Sen. Reid, he offers a “few important facts” referencing some historical background as well as surveys conducted by the Associated Press and the Annenberg Public Policy Center of Pennsylvania.

“More than a decade ago one of the foremost scholars of Native American languages, Smithsonian Institution senior linguist Ives Goddard, spent seven months researching the subject and concluded that the word ‘redskin’ originated as a Native American expression of solidarity by multi-tribal delegations that traveled to Washington to negotiate Native American national policies,” Allen says.

Allen goes on to note that the Redskins logo was designed by Native American leaders in 1971 when his father, George Allen, was head coach.

“The highly respected Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania surveyed Native Americans nationally and reported that an overwhelming 90% of respondents said the name was not offensive,” Allen states in the letter. “More importantly, Native Americans continue to embrace and use the name and logo.”

In his final bullet point of “facts,” he refers to the national survey conducted by the Associated Press “confirming 83% of Americans said they are in favor of keeping the Washington Redskins name.”

Allen ends the letter by saying, “We hope you will join us; Native Americans deserve our support.”

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