Goodell presser

While Luke Wilson garnered some praise for his portrayal of Roger Goodell in "Concussion", I will probably always feel that his definitive movie portrayal was performed by Dom DeLuise in "History of the World, Part 1". I just feel that it is the most realistic portrayal based on how Roger sees himself and his respective importance to the league, and, as this clip shows at the 3:15 mark, tells his story accurately to the degree of showing exactly when Roger first discovered that it can be dangerous to sit on a couch:

Koma said:

He's right. This was many years ago, but, one time, I was sitting on a couch, watching TV and eating popcorn. I went to shift how I was sitting and pulled something in my back.

While I learned that there is risk everywhere, I overcame my fear and continue to sit on couches to this day.

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I've suffered from that as well.

Couch Twisting Episode. Don't worry though the NFL says it's nothing serious.

Finally got around to watching the presser. Jesus, he was literally asked "what constitutes a violation?", to which he gave a minutes-long rambling, incoherent speech that referred to them finding no violations, but never clarified what constitutes one.

I'm surprised the board and all of NE isn't erupting in anger over the "no violations" comment from Goodell and Blandino. For one simple reason - we now know for a fact that a ball at the lowest NFL limit of 12.5psi before any of the cold weather games they checked, HAD TO HAVE BEEN UNDER LEAGUE MINIMUMS at half time! If there were no violations then either every team started with balls near the max of 14.5psi, OR the NFL is now saying balls that naturally deflate below the league range ARE NOT VIOLATIONS! Meaning the Pats are exonerated. It's one or the other.

Kraft better get in Goodell's face about this one and get the number one pick back.

Brady'sButtBoy said:

Kraft better get in Goodell's face about this one and get the number one pick back.

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Nothing against you personally, but I sort of can't believe people on this board are still writing sentences like that.

BradyFTW! said:

Finally got around to watching the presser. Jesus, he was literally asked "what constitutes a violation?", to which he gave a minutes-long rambling, incoherent speech that referred to them finding no violations, but never clarified what constitutes one.

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Your apt description reminded me of this....

Brady'sButtBoy said:

I'm surprised the board and all of NE isn't erupting in anger over the "no violations" comment from Goodell and Blandino. For one simple reason - we now know for a fact that a ball at the lowest NFL limit of 12.5psi before any of the cold weather games they checked, HAD TO HAVE BEEN UNDER LEAGUE MINIMUMS at half time! If there were no violations then either every team started with balls near the max of 14.5psi, OR the NFL is now saying balls that naturally deflate below the league range ARE NOT VIOLATIONS! Meaning the Pats are exonerated. It's one or the other.

Kraft better get in Goodell's face about this one and get the number one pick back.

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A good question at the presser would have been:

"Commissioner, scientists at the finest universities and labs across the country have confirmed the ideal gas law works with footballs. During the Minnesota-Seattle playoff game, where the temperature was down to -1 degree, scientists were saying that the pressure of the footballs would have fallen well below the lower psi limit the NFL rulebook calls for. The league announced that you would be testing the footballs during that game. You have said that no violations were found this season regarding air pressure. So during the Minnesota-Seattle game, do you mean that the footballs did not drop below 12.5 psi, or do you mean that they DID drop below 12.5 psi, to the range where scientists said the laws of physics would dictate they were - between 8.5 and 9.5 psi, which would indicate that there was no tampering with the footballs?"

Zeus said:

More on this later but ...

In February 2017, just prior to the Patriots appearance in Super Bowl LI, we should organize the first annual Roger Goodell Press Conference Party. The epic lunacy and idiocy of this event should celebrated (i.e., mocked) in grand fashion at an appropriate gathering place with fine food and drink.

Members of the local sporting press would be welcome.

It will be like Groundhog Day except the animals can talk.

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Or on replay we can put it up there like they used to do on Mystery Science Theater with those old B rated movies. We could have loads of fun with him and he might finally actually be in the entertainment business.

Goodell is the biggest fraud in professional sports. How in the ****ing **** does he make 40 million dollars a year?

I mean couldn't the owners find a puppet who isn't a total moron?

sb1 said:

Mike Silver called Goodell a genuine person.

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Mike Silverstein is the biggest "my nose so far up the @55 of the MFL that I know what GoToHell had for breakfast this morning" suck up that follows all the rules and rhetoric that the MFL loves. He will have a wonderful career sucking their nut sack.

Kdo5 said:

Goodell is the biggest fraud in professional sports. How in the ****ing **** does he make 40 million dollars a year?

I mean couldn't the owners find a puppet who isn't a total moron?

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54 mill, but does it really matter? The guy and the MFL's guise of "integrity" are becoming a laughing stock. And, as we all hoped, is getting to main stream media and will make a mockery of these idiots. Greed will kill them. Goodell is a F'n joke. A 54 million dollar joke. The owners, including Kraft, can go pound salt. Until Kraft tries to get the picks back (don't hold your breath) he is part of the problem.

The most telling thing I took away from ****s presser is his " The league is growing. expanding to more countries, getting women, children involved,...." These pricks really think they have the world by the balls. They just come right out and say it. "WE WANT EVERY CENT FROM EVERYBODY", @55holes!!

sevengables_2207 said:

Your apt description reminded me of this....

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That clip alone makes me proud to call Darius Butler a Pats alum

Ron Borges .. of all people ... labels Goodell "Ideal Gas Bag"

http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/...ssioners_address_a_bunch_of_talk_by_ideal_gas

Hammer of Thor said:

Apparently the risk of sitting on the couch is that your brains turn into Roger Goodell's.

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Well, no. You don't sit on your brains like Rog.

sevengables_2207 said:

Your apt description reminded me of this....

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What's really funny/ sad about this is that the audience laughs just from the press conference clips. You don't even need Oliver's comments to make him pathetically comic.

On the PSI question, just call him Roger The Dodger

But aren’t the recorded PSIs of 2015 necessary to prove that the ones gathered last January prove beyond reasonable doubt that the Patriots did something nefarious? Otherwise it’s circumstantial? A murder conviction without a body?

“People have gone to jail for murder without there being a body,” was the response.

Tom Curran's piece. This is pure gold.

His 309-word answer when I asked at his Friday press conference what constitutes a ball pressure violation and whether any balls measured under 12.5 PSI in 2015 was a study in deflection.


He didn’t so much answer as he did orally ejaculate syllables for a prescribed length of time before he felt safe to go on to a stuttering query about whether the Pro Bowl will ever be played in Austria.

SVN said:

On the PSI question, just call him Roger The Dodger

But aren’t the recorded PSIs of 2015 necessary to prove that the ones gathered last January prove beyond reasonable doubt that the Patriots did something nefarious? Otherwise it’s circumstantial? A murder conviction without a body?

“People have gone to jail for murder without there being a body,” was the response.

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It doesn't matter. Because of the texts and destroyed phone, Goody and Wells already reached the conclusion that there was a conspiracy to deflate footballs.

That is the league's argument- to dispense punishment when they believe punishment is deserving.

Having hard evidence or providing notice to the player is irrelevant to what is outlined in Article 49 of the PCP.

Hitler agrees with this philosophy.

Kdo5 said:

Goodell is the biggest fraud in professional sports. How in the ****ing **** does he make 40 million dollars a year?

I mean couldn't the owners find a puppet who isn't a total moron?

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I think we need to acknowledge that they don't want an intelligent puppet because intelligent people are much tougher to control.

I hate Goodell as much as anyone (except maybe Joker ) but there are 32 men who hired him and 32 men who keep him employed in his current role. That's where the criticism should lie.