Posted on 11/11/2016 6:48:57 AM PST by TigerClaws
The impending presidency of Donald Trump was a prime topic for NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell during a conference Thursday in New York.
Goodell admitted to interviewer Andrew Ross Sorkin that the coarseness of some of Trumps comments about women, captured in an Access Hollywood video, were a challenge to explain, particularly to his 15-year-old twin daughters. Sorkin, in the New York Times DealBook conference, asked if those comments made his job more difficult, particularly after the leagues 2014 domestic violence crisis led to changes in the leagues policy and the commissioners promise to do a better job.
Listen, it makes my job harder at home, too, Goodell said of Trumps comments. I have twin daughters and a wife and so I have to explain that to them. So yes, on that front. Does it make it harder publicly?
Listen, I think our country has to have more respect for one another and we have to unite. I saw some very positive signs of that yesterday with our current president, Hillary Clintons comments publicly and others coming together and saying, We have to get together, we have to unite, we have to address some of the issues and work together. President Trump is our president so lets get behind him.
This all started when the NFL thought it would be a great idea to start making social stands during the games. While I hate breast cancer as much as the next guy, who wanted pink cleats and towels all over the field. Did that save one breast?
The NFL is in the business of entertainment and not raising social conscious.
Why is Roger even making comments about the election?. It is stupid on both a political and financial basis. You will automatically anger 50% (or more) of your audience. Why can’t he just said, “I am here to talk about the great season that is already half over with lots of competitive games, not about politics.”. He gets paid big bucks to promote the league, NOT to comment on politics or social issues.
No one cares what you think Roger!
Because Trump!
Obviously snowflake Goodell has never visited a locker room in his precious NFL. GTFO my country!
Good point. How many NFL players have been charged with domestic abuse or worse? Their treatment of women is far worse than any words from Donald Trump.
And, I bet if he looked on his daughters phones or tablets he would find worse than what Trump said.
“I have twin daughters and a wife and so I have to explain that to them”
This from the guy who suspended Ray Rice for only 2 games for knocking his wife unconscious in an elevator!! What a hypocrite! What a fing idiot!!!!
Goodell continues to rearrange the chairs on the deck of the Titanic.
Goodell “had to explain it” to his wife who is probably a fan of 50 Shades of Gray and daughters - who were listening to Beyonce on their iphone.
As the new POTUS would say, Give. Me. A. Break.
This female football fan says fans need a new league.
Goodell must think the lib policies aren’t even a smidgen of the NFL’s current downturn....delusional is what delusional does....
What a doofus
Well Goodall, how did you explain Bill Clintons actions to your daughters? There we are talking actions, not words — big difference.
What? He supports the criminal branch of the NFL domestic violence in all.
Roger Goodell is an ass. During the Lewinsky scandal, the press and Democrats trotted out every imaginable defense of Clinton’s behavior: “every man is entitled to a grope”; “it’s just about sex”; “this is what we expect of our leaders, who should be Type A males”; “attach a $20 dollar bill and drag it through a trailer park”; “let’s move on”; “the vast right-wing conspiracy”; “every woman in America should put on her presidential kneepads and thank President Clinton”; and on and on. And much of this drivel came from FEMINISTS!
#BoycottNFL
you spelled it wrong.
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