GQ did a VERY unflattering piece about Roger Goodell and the NFL, and Deadspin published some of the lowlights.
First big quote they published was about the handling of the Ray Rice banishment -- but the money line, to me, was something else:
Earlier that day, Kraft had appeared on CBS This Morning and was questioned by Charlie Rose about Goodell's handling of the Rice situation. It didn't go well. "He had no knowledge of this video," Kraft told Rose stiffly. "Anyone who's second-guessing that doesn't know him." After the interview, the source says, Kraft conferred with his friend Leslie Moonves, the CEO of CBS. The two men spoke often, but this call was urgent: In roughly forty-eight hours, CBS was set to air the first of eight Thursday Night Football games (for which the network reportedly paid about $250 million), and the game featured the Ravens. Kraft and Moonves agreed that Goodell needed to appear on CBS News and answer questions. The questioner, Moonves added, should be a woman…
Well, if you need any further indication as to how the Patriots have been to, now, three more Super Bowls since the "War on Terror" died down a bit in the public eye, there you go.So large is Kraft's sway with Goodell that one veteran NFL executive likes to call him "the assistant commissioner."
It's bad enough, but par for the course for the PR Commish, to try to spin everything and the like -- but when you basically have an owner who is all but the assistant to the Commissioner, and this is now his sixth Super Bowl in 14 years...
Not to mention that Kraft and Goodell had a party together at Kraft's house before the AFC title game, a fact not lost on no less than Richard Sherman!!
When a punk-ass thug like Richard Sherman is RIGHT about Roger Goodell and a burgeoning conflict of interest (which goes back far beyond Deflate-Gate!), you know we've lost the plot somewhere.
But it goes far beyond that. We get the blatant "IT'S A VAST LEFT-WING CONSPIRACY!!!!" situation here:
A liberal agenda?"The players' union wants to bring Roger down anytime they can," (Texans owner) Bob McNair told me. A media executive added: "All of the owners are in unison on this. A lot of people feel it's a liberal agenda." Says another source, a friend of Goodell's: "You have Al Sharpton saying Goodell should be fired. What the fuck does Al Sharpton know?"
If this were truly a liberal agenda, you'd see games disrupted. Violently.
And that's what probably needs to take place, to be blunt.
Because any real liberal agenda would take into account that we now are seeing a rise in a men's rights movement with football as it's centerpiece.
Like the Penn State fan who's telling me there are no facts to support my claims. I meet him, he gets my fist, like all other pedophiles and their enablers should get.
Like a football fan in Canada today, who FILED A COMPLAINT with the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, claiming his right to kick the fucking shit out of any woman he wants to...
You read that right. I'm not kidding. I really am not.
In 1989, an animal claiming the right to kill women in the name of men's superpower over them killed 14 women at a French-Canadian university. As a result, various entities created the White Ribbon Campaign against domestic violence.
The Toronto Argonauts have done work for this Campaign, and this shithead complained. A second complaint will go forward, because the Argonauts have threatened to ban him from the stadium and revoke his season tickets as a result!!!
Vast liberal agenda, my fucking ass, Goodell!! This sport has done more to promote "men"'s "rights" such as domestic violence, rape, sodomy, bullying, hazing, and (dare I say it!!) pedophilia under it's colors that, for any "liberal agenda" to be in force, you'd have to shut down the entire sport, cocksucker!
"At NFL headquarters there was suddenly a new mood, a brasher, more money-minded approach. The new commissioner demanded loyalty from staffers and even questioned their value. "He thought everyone was overpaid," a former senior executive told me. "He always told me I was overpaid." Another told me: "He gave me a hard time about my contract. I was like, The fuck you doing? This is peanuts.""
So what is this? The Bill Clinton school of thinking, where even one's life has a price?
Who the fuck are you, Roger? Vince McMahon, booking the 2015 Royal Rumble, a card which, unless the fan revolt severely decreases ticket demand, will all but ensure I do NOT attend Wrestlemania???
(Had to get that shot in. If you admit the stuff is rigged, you still have an obligation to make a good job out of it!!!)
Of course, that might pale to Houston Texans owner Bob McNair:
"It was about protecting the brand," recalled Bob McNair, who attended the sessions. "Do we want the brand attacked on this for the next ten years? Or do we want to go ahead and take the high road? In effect, we don't think most of these concussions referenced even occurred in the NFL, but we're not going to complain about it."FUCK YOU, BOB.
Maybe a lot of these concussions occurred because this is what football has become when the NFL became about making your body a missile and drilling somebody in the head!!
In rugby, they'd be sent off for spearing!
You want to see how bad it is? This is the last quote Deadspin added to the article. It's former Commissioner Paul Tagliabue.
Tagliabue sees Goodell's laser focus on profit and his combative stance toward players as key parts of the problem. "If they see you making decisions only in economic terms, they start to understand that and question what you're all about," he said. "There's a huge intangible value in peace. There's a huge intangible value in having allies." As for his relationship with his protégé, Tagliabue says, "We haven't talked much since I left. It's been his decision. Bountygate didn't help." In our conversation, Tagliabue seemed disappointed, and a bit sad, about the sorry state of the game he ran for seventeen years.
They don't want peace.
They don't want allies.
They truly believe they are the sole National Religion, and, hence, need none of that sort.
You want a great example? This is my fifty-third post in January, and there's still Super Bowl Week to go here.
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