Posted on 08/16/2016 9:03:32 AM PDT by detective
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is taking the power granted to him under article 46 of the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) and shoving it down the players’ throats.
Goodell ruined the career of Saints DT Anthony Hargrove because the NFL failed to admit that they were wrong during BountyGate. Patriots QB Tom Brady will serve a four-game suspension this season because Goodell had to save face with the owners after spending millions on a tainted investigation.
Now Goodell is trying to suspend the players named in the Al Jazeera America documentary on steroid use for an indefinite period of time.
(Excerpt) Read more at patspulpit.com ...
Al Jazeera America still exists?
He should take away Manning’s super bowl win then as he is in the report as well.
Yes he could have thrown the ball over those mountains.
The Patriots have a well deserved reputation for cheating.
Brady tossed his incriminating i-phone ... that action cost him any credibility.
But alas, he hindered the investigation by destroying the phone. The coverup is always worse than the crime.
Goodell has simply asked the 4 players involved to submit to interviews. After that, it'll be swept under the rug and back to normal. If they refuse to be interviewed, only then will things escalate. So the entire characterization of this piece is a gross exaggeration.
As for "fraudulent" charges against Tom Brady: spoken like a true Patriots fanboy.
The only thing fraudulent was the fraud committed by Brady and his enablers. These allegations were pursued and investigated due to the requests of Brady's fellow NFL players.
Brady could have taken his lumps and gotten off with a game or two, but he chose to be stubborn. He's an employee, and Goodell is management. Unless you're some kind of union-loving socialist, the outcome in the Brady case was perfectly correct.
If Brady is so innocent, why not go ahead and take the final step to the USSC?
I'll tell you why. Because he didn't have a legal leg to stand on, and this case would have been finished long ago were in not for a lone uber-activist Democrat judge.
I will relish with great abandon seeing Tom Brady sitting on the sidelines for the first 4 games of the NFL season.
And I assure you, my joy has nothing to do with the fact that I'm a Dolphins fan ;-)
And, like Brady, I say: Vote Trump!
The NFL is a meat factory, nothing more, nothing less.
They take exceptional athletes, pull up a dump truck of money onto the front porch and say “Give us your bodies, give us your mind and for 2-5 years we’ll treat you like gods.”
Then when the meat factory has no use for you lose the free phones, free meals, free travel, free first class resort and hotel stays, state of the art “medical” (ie. keep the meat moving) care, free cars and easy women.
What follows is broken down bodies that will never heal, a mind that never works the same again, forgotten names by the front office, league and fans. The meat factory will cover up all of this, see how they’re kicking and screaming over concussion lawsuits, see how they and the NFLPA continue to stop and minimize licensing revenues to retired players for the meat factory’s use of their images and likenesses in Madden and the like.
Now the meat factory needs to drum out any would be dissenters to their tyrannical rule over their meat showing them their place for failing to subject themselves to unnecessary questioning they can never win.
The franchise owners in the meat factory only see one thing, Roger Goddell promised to make the NFL a $25 billion business and he’s getting there. So the franchise owners will never kill that growing golden goose regardless of what happens to the meat the meat factory has in the system.
The NFL is so morally bankrupt, its commissioner so evil as to defy words. All of this over a report that Peyton Manning has had defeated and beaten as fraudulent from an out of business news organization who used it as its final Hail Mary against its eventual demise in trying to be groundbreaking, profitable and relevant.
I wish nothing but ill will towards this organization as it is the prime mover in the bread and circuses business after the feds.
At FR, the place of reason and logic, there are too many fanatics determined to ignore anything that hinders their cause. Don't even bring up the old chestnut that Tebow ain't an NFL QB. Watch the fireworks fly.
They already “investigated” Manning and found the report false. The whole thing is really weird, the report came out over a year ago, they ignored it until this off season, then they only investigated Manning, and cleared him. Then they decided they should investigate everybody else, but they didn’t bother with that until training camps had started, Harrison said “I’m a little busy now” and refuses to go to the league office. Though he says they’re perfectly free to come visit him, he’ll even host them at his home, just check with his coaches and for his availability. This has apparently angered Goodell.
The RULES for the NFL should be only concerned with THE GAME. If a player breaks rules OUTSIDE the game, then the COURTS should make the call. The NFL should stay the hell out of any aspect that isn’t in the NFL GAME rule book.
My attitude has soured toward the NFL the last couple of years. It used to be a source of escape from the liberalism of the ‘90s until it became infected too. I still watch some games, cringing through commercials, mostly because my son is into it . A different point than you make but would lose no sleep if the organization went belly up.
Well, being a Dolphin's fan, the rest of the season is likely to be far less fun for you then, so enjoy.
There is ZERO evidence he did anything wrong, but apparently you two believe he old democrat maxim, it's the seriousness of the charge that counts.
Go ahead, show us all the evidence. We'll be waiting for years for one thing you can cite, because it ain't there. Go ahead, show us. Just one thing. One.
That cell phone argument is so stupid, they had ALL the text messages of the ball boys and equipment managers. Nothing, not a thing, zero evidence, what were they going to get from Brady's phone they couldn't have from the others?
If you were married to the world's most famous super model, would you turn over you phone to an organization that has leaked private information before?
Sure you would.
My attitude towards the NFL soured when they started assaulting my retinas with pink every October.
Even more so when Dan Rooney turned the Steelers into a virtual arm of the Obama campaign.
Would you hand your phone over to someone who was trying to screw you? Would you hand your phone over to a District Attorney?
You’re conveniently ignoring the fact the Patriot organization has a history of gaming the system.
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