seven
Third String But Playing on Special Teams
- Joined
- Nov 6, 2007
- Messages
- 974
- Reaction score
- 596
Michael Hurley@michaelFhurley13m13 minutes ago
I wrote about Roger again. This one's about the time he tried to scapegoat the bad guy as a liar. It blew up on him. http://cbsloc.al/1AKjwpS
Hurley: One More Thought On Roger Goodell's Pledge Of 'Integrity'
In a letter intended to bolster his own integrity, Roger Goodell referenced a case when he was ruled to have been a liar.
Excerpts from tail:
...Judge Jones then hammered home the point: Rice did not mislead the NFL or the commissioner, and the commissioner’s claims that Rice lied about the incident have no basis.
(Goodell) was the one who, in a letter intended to praise his own integrity as well as the league’s, referenced this appeal. And it was in this appeal when he saw strong public opinion going against a suspended player and used it as an opportunity to paint that player as a liar.
And here’s one last important distinction: This all came after Goodell’s fake mea culpa.
This all came after Goodell said “I got it wrong” and wrote to all 32 NFL teams about the ways he failed in his initial discipline of Rice.
This was after he said, “My commitment has always been to do what is right and to protect the integrity of the game.”
The lies came after he wrote, “Our mission has been to create and sustain model workplaces filled with people of character. Although the NFL is celebrated for what happens on the field, we must be equally vigilant in what we do off the field.”
This came after he declared, “Simply put, we have to do better. And we will.”
He did not. Instead, he lied. He tried to scapegoat the bad guy, bolstering his own public image in the process. And it blew up in his face, and it’s there, written in plain English by Judge Jones for the world to see. And thanks to Goodell’s reference to it on Tuesday, it’s now fresh on all of our minds.
“With very few exceptions,” Goodell wrote in that late August letter to teams, “NFL personnel conduct themselves in an exemplary way.”
On this, Roger would agree. The man is always the exception.
I wrote about Roger again. This one's about the time he tried to scapegoat the bad guy as a liar. It blew up on him. http://cbsloc.al/1AKjwpS
Hurley: One More Thought On Roger Goodell's Pledge Of 'Integrity'
In a letter intended to bolster his own integrity, Roger Goodell referenced a case when he was ruled to have been a liar.
Excerpts from tail:
...Judge Jones then hammered home the point: Rice did not mislead the NFL or the commissioner, and the commissioner’s claims that Rice lied about the incident have no basis.
(Goodell) was the one who, in a letter intended to praise his own integrity as well as the league’s, referenced this appeal. And it was in this appeal when he saw strong public opinion going against a suspended player and used it as an opportunity to paint that player as a liar.
And here’s one last important distinction: This all came after Goodell’s fake mea culpa.
This all came after Goodell said “I got it wrong” and wrote to all 32 NFL teams about the ways he failed in his initial discipline of Rice.
This was after he said, “My commitment has always been to do what is right and to protect the integrity of the game.”
The lies came after he wrote, “Our mission has been to create and sustain model workplaces filled with people of character. Although the NFL is celebrated for what happens on the field, we must be equally vigilant in what we do off the field.”
This came after he declared, “Simply put, we have to do better. And we will.”
He did not. Instead, he lied. He tried to scapegoat the bad guy, bolstering his own public image in the process. And it blew up in his face, and it’s there, written in plain English by Judge Jones for the world to see. And thanks to Goodell’s reference to it on Tuesday, it’s now fresh on all of our minds.
“With very few exceptions,” Goodell wrote in that late August letter to teams, “NFL personnel conduct themselves in an exemplary way.”
On this, Roger would agree. The man is always the exception.