Media Report (unverified): The NFL had the Rice Elevator Tape in April

Triumph said:

http://blogs.denverpost.com/broncos/2014/09/09/take-remove-roger-goodell-nfl-commissioner/29392/

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Et tu, Peyton? And after all I've done for you!

This Darin Gantt guy on PFT is a big hack and always driven to hyperbole even more than florio.but just because he isnt doing it to the pats but goodell, its hilarious. He expects goodell to know a tape was going to arrive and goes all about income equality and all that....

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...dell-when-the-tape-arrived-augusta-of-course/

SVN said:

This Darin Gantt guy on PFT is a big hack and always driven to hyperbole even more than florio.but just because he isnt doing it to the pats but goodell, its hilarious. He expects goodell to know a tape was going to arrive and goes all about income equality and all that....

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/09/11/where-was-goodell-when-the-tape-arrived-augusta-of-course/

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Gee a member of Augusta National on hand for the week his club host a major golf event? What a hack this guy is! I doubt any of Augusta's members miss that week. If you have ever been to Augusta, GA, I can assure you, it is not a "destination spot"! Its a blue collar town covered with Hampton Inns and chain stores, a dying if not already dead downtown, its not exactly the French Riveria!

Do I think that Goodell saw the tape, yes, should he have handled this whole thing better, absolutely! Does it have anything to do that he was at the Masters? Of course Not!

What a surprise that the POS was at a country club known for excluding women and minorities. It fits perfectly with his overall view of women. There is a better chance of Stevie Wonder seeing Elvis splitting a sandwich with Bigfoot than Goodell not knowing or screening that second tape before this week.

Now, the latest development. Bill Polian was on ESPN today, and the woman (naturally) anchor asked him 'With all your experience, do you think it's possible that the tape could have not been viewed by anyone after it was there?' And Polian's reply was essentially he couldn't understand how it could happen, and the NFL meant business and nobody would lie to the NFL cause they always mean business and there security is better than any other american business and everybody at the office was always on top of every single detail. And then there was a technical interruption.

When they came back, 20 minutes later, the woman asked him the same question, and the first words out of his mouth were 'Well, it could happen.' And then a bunch of stuff about how big the nfl is and stuff could easily fall through the cracks.

Felger and Maz just spent 10 minutes playing one line from the first one, 'It's very difficult for me to understand how that could happen.', then saying '10 minutes later' and playing 'Well it can happen. '

i guess it took 20 minutes for Polian to go through re-education. He didn't need a complete brain washing. a light rinse was enough. How soon will it be before they trot out Dungy and the rest of the competition committee to support Polian

Joker said:

"human dignity, justice and moral courage.”

as Commodus would say to Augustus Caesar in Germania..."these are qualities I do not possess..."

Commodusdell...now that I think about it...the PERFECT historical analogy from EVERY angle imaginable

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I'm sorry but that movie was entirely fictional.

Wheelman said:

I'm sorry but that movie was entirely fictional.

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uh..yes...I was using literary license for effect. I DO know of and HAVE read the work of Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. My senior year in high school was spent translating his "Twelve Caesars" from Latin to English.

SVN said:

This Darin Gantt guy on PFT is a big hack and always driven to hyperbole even more than florio.but just because he isnt doing it to the pats but goodell, its hilarious. He expects goodell to know a tape was going to arrive and goes all about income equality and all that....

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...dell-when-the-tape-arrived-augusta-of-course/

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Golf is fun. Azaleas are pretty. Pimento cheese sandwiches taste good.

But at the very moment when the organization Goodell runs so powerfully should have been aware of something so horrible, he was surrounded by people just like him.

Rich. Powerful. And insulated from practically anyone who might look or think differently.

Augusta’s track record of exclusion is well-documented and long-standing and only really pertinent as it applies to the bigger picture of the NFL’s blind spot to the reality of domestic violence.

The NFL knew Ray Rice dragged his unconscious wife out of an elevator. But without seeing it, the reality that he had to have done something to render her unconscious never occurred to them to be so jarring, so horrific, so repugnant that it merited more than a two-game suspension.

If the people you surround yourself with are the rich and the powerful and the insulated, you tend to view the world through a rich and powerful and insulated prism.

You can’t imagine the visceral reaction that America would have to a man punching the mother of his children and soon-to-be wife in the face.

You can’t imagine what a terrible idea it was to ask a victim of abuse to come to the office and testify in front of the man who abused her, his employers, and their superiors.

You wouldn’t stop to think that getting another perspective on this might help, that any other perspective other than the one you already have matters.

You wouldn’t have any way of knowing how people would react, because you have sequestered yourself among your peers.

You wouldn’t have any idea.

And that not knowing is the problem the NFL is struggling with right now — one that might be far more difficult to solve than scraping the pimento cheese off your shoes.

The Emperor-dell has no clothes...

Deus Irae said:

Sick, twisted, evil women v. loathsome, evil, Goodell.


It's just too bad that they can't all lose. Any chance we can bring them all together for talks just as a meteor strikes?.

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FirstAndGoal said:

Hopefully Bob Mueller can answer that in his report now that he's been hired to investigate lol

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Right. I'm sure he'll put all the resources of his law firm, which has made hundreds of thousands of dollars off of its relationship with the NFL, to work on getting that answer!

I'm just as sure of that as I am that Mara and Rooney, the owners who are directing the "impartial" investigation, will insist hat he get to the bottom of this.

What a farce!

flasox27 said:

What a surprise that the POS was at a country club known for excluding women and minorities. It fits perfectly with his overall view of women.

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Really? That's where we're at now? Criticizing the guy for being a member of Augusta National, the most prestigious golf club on the planet?

Good luck with that.

SB39 said:

Really? That's where we're at now? Criticizing the guy for being a member of Augusta National, the most prestigious golf club on the planet?

Good luck with that.

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Lucky for Godell they grudginly let a woman in, or he would be trashed as a misogynist even more

There are minor NFL media members like Benjamin Allbright who claim that they saw the tape months ago and got a hold of it without trying. The idea that the NFL, which routinely does invasive dives into the private lives of its employees, didn't see it is completely preposterous.

PatsFanSince74 said:

Right. I'm sure he'll put all the resources of his law firm, which has made hundreds of thousands of dollars off of its relationship with the NFL, to work on getting that answer!

I'm just as sure of that as I am that Mara and Rooney, the owners who are directing the "impartial" investigation, will insist hat he get to the bottom of this.

What a farce!

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Goodell is just a useful idiot for the owners. I'm surprised they're standing behind him because his whole job is to take the flak they rightfully deserve for the messes they've created in the name of profit.

SB39 said:

Really? That's where we're at now? Criticizing the guy for being a member of Augusta National, the most prestigious golf club on the planet?

Good luck with that.

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Just because they hold the Masters Tournament there doesn't offset their long standing history of discriminatory practices. I would venture to say that in the not too distant past in addition to women, most of the players and some of the owners like Bob Kraft would not be welcomed as members.

flasox27 said:

Just because they hold the Masters Tournament there doesn't offset their long standing history of discriminatory practices. I would venture to say that in the not too distant past in addition to women, most of the players and some of the owners like Bob Kraft would not be welcomed as members.

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Well, was Roger Goodell a member when any of those policies were in place? Or are you condemning the guy for something that happened decades ago?

(Yes I know the first women members were much more recent, but I think it is idiocy to claim a mens-only club must therefore be misogynist.)

Mine are in black and grey.

What, too soon?

This is funny, but the White Knights will be coming for you.

I had the idea of wearing one of those with "ravens" written in purple on the front and rice 27 on the back for Halloween this year.