I remember that one time adam silver banned a owner for lifetime over some **** he said In private.
Commissioners do what they want. That's just the way it is.
Notice that the punishment that Donald Sterling received had zero affect on the organization itself - he didn't dock them draft picks or anything like that, because he couldn't. And if you followed the Sterling story closely, that was actually a ballsy move by Silver because he
didn't have the authority to force Sterling to sell the team, a fact that even he himself acknowledged in his public statements. It's why if you go back and watch, you'll note that he goes out of his way to express confidence that the rest of ownership will back him, because he simply didn't have the independent authority to force any owner to do anything, really, regarding their ownership. That was all public posturing, basically daring the other owners to do anything but line up behind him and force Sterling out.
Which was what ultimately happened. The rest of the owners voted to force Sterling to sell the team. In the end it had nothing at all to do with Silver's actual authority, because he didn't have the authority to enforce that punishment. He was just very shrewd in creating a PR situation where the rest of the owners went along with him, and only a couple (Mark Cuban being the most vocal, IIRC) expressed any reservations at all.
I'm not trying to be a **** here, but posts like this just make it clearer that you're not really informed on the specific things you're talking about, and drawing broad conclusions out of ignorance. If anything, the examples you keep pointing to support the point that I'm making, which is the opposite of what you're claiming here. The Donald Sterling example is a good precedent to point to, as it likely establishes the upper limit of what Goodell can maybe hope to accomplish here: *if* he gets the rest of the owners on board he may be able to force Kraft to sell the team. But owners don't like it when they
themselves are accountable to anyone: execs, sure, players, sure, but they expect to be above any real consequences, and being forced to sell your team is a real consequence to these guys. So unless Goodell can convince Jerry Jones and Dan Snyder that being caught banging a prostitute is grounds for being stripped of your most prized personal asset, I'm not at all convinced that it'll even get that far on account of NFL owners being a special breed of narcissistic, entitled assholes.
And I hope it doesn't get to that point, since Bob really should just hand the team over to his son in the wake of this, and none of this should have to be forced.
