For me ,all this has NOTHING to do with Goodell vis a vis the New England Patriots Football organization....this is a man who has fined the New England Patriots a MILLION dollars and made the club forfeit a FIRST ROUND DRAFT PICK.....stop with the "respect authority!!!!" ballwashing that's been going on here and THINK about that.
What is the value of THAT pick to the New England Patriots? For the sake of argument ,since we will never know, let's assume for a moment that the Patriots hit it big with a blue chip, All Pro player....what does this do for the fortune, the business success of the NEP going forward?? How do you put a price on THAT??? It could easily mean millions or tens of millions more revenue because of ultimate success, that being Super Bowl championships.The ancillary revenue streams have NEVER been factored into this ridiculous judgement made by this man, unilaterally.
His decision is akin to that of a former Ford executive sitting in judgement of GM regarding a minor issue on the muffler shield being affixed on TOP or the bottom of the unit,industry standards calling for the bottom, and then fining GM a million dollars and forcing production of their new line onto the scrap heap....GM never gets to realize the benefits from all their R+D and all the profits from this new state of the art vehicle because this "former" FORD exec. decides to fine and damage the GM line.
Who the hell in this country would put up with THAT?????? Any rational person can see this situation literally screams INDEPENDENT ARBITRATOR...and THAT IS WHAT YOU WOULD SEE HAPPEN.
Again, using the Ford exec analogy, his former company has been determined to have a number of seriously defective flaws in one of its' vehicles. It's found that Ford has been brazenly and openly negligent,treating the public with corporate vulgarity after vulgarity...being discovered to have defective parts in its wheel hubs, yet allowed to keep it a "private matter".Ford employees allowed to run amok ,abusing sick time benefits, defacing competitors products as they are shipped by using organized lines of employees to slash tires in transit and then blaming GM for everything.
THIS is the Goodell Patriots fans have gotten rammed down their throats by the rest of this league's brahmins.....do you all seriously think that THIS is a tremendous marketing tool worldwide for the NFL and a feather in Goodell's cap??????????????????????
50 G's for that, paid for by Woody Johnson with a nudge nudge and a wink wink to the commissioner.....ONE MILLION DOLLARS and a FIRST ROUND PICK of untold value for an argument about a memo??????? Goodell is doing a great job????????
THIS being viewed worldwide by an audience of prospective fans that could expand the revenues of the league to unparalleled heights..??????????? Notice the term "look-alike"...a complete fabrication by the press to cover up this embarrassing incident.
Totally sweep THAT under the rug like it never happened???? That's telling the other five billion humans on the planet exactly what your moral compass dictates in regards to open deviance and degeneracy....don't ask, don't tell.
To those of you that continue to insist that Roger Goodell is the only man for this job, I submit that your requirements of the person to carry out the functions of league commissioner are so low that they appear subterranean.