Posted on 02/27/2018 8:22:47 AM PST by jeannineinsd
With the support of many N.F.L. owners, Commissioner Roger Goodell is prepared to escalate his public feud with Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys and long one of the most influential people in the league, by ordering him to pay millions of dollars for his efforts to derail negotiations to renew Goodell’s contract and for his outspoken defense of a star player who was suspended, according to five league officials with direct knowledge of the situation.
The punishment will be issued in the coming weeks by Goodell, who will declare that Jones’s actions were detrimental to the league, which rarely shows such acute signs of acrimony among owners and the commissioner’s office. Goodell has been reluctant to be seen as exacting retribution for the way Jones tried to sabotage his contract talks, but he was urged to bring the penalties by several owners who believed that Jones had crossed an unspoken boundary by threatening his colleagues.
In November, Jones hired the high-profile lawyer David Boies and said he was prepared to sue the six owners on the league’s compensation committee, which had been working for months on extending Goodell’s contract. Jones also lobbied loudly for running back Ezekiel Elliott not to be penalized, and reportedly tried to influence league officials deciding his case. Elliott had been suspended by the league for six games before the season after the N.F.L. investigated domestic-assault allegations.
Jones will be ordered to pay the legal fees that the committee incurred defending itself, as well as the legal expenses the N.F.L. spent defending its decision to suspend Elliott.
A spokesman for the Cowboys said the team was unaware of the impending penalties and did not immediately have a comment. A spokesman for the N.F.L. said the league had no comment.
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Did the Cowboys start a lawsuit against the League? I don’t think so. I thought it was just a letter-writing campaign. The 1997 NFL resolution calls for the reimbursement of the League’s legal fees by a team that brings a lawsuit against the League and then loses. As far as I know, that is not what happened here.
It’s nice to know Eagles fans are still thugs. :)
Hey Goodell, you’re way beyond the bottom of a deep hole you can’t get out of. Stop digging, dumbass!
Nah, never mind. Way past time for the NFL to go the way of the World Football League.
Goddell seems like a kook. But I don’t know much about the NFL business so maybe I am off base.
It does seem like his leadership is lacking as the NFL is taking a nosedive in fans.
Congrats on the incredible Super Bowl win!
And I'm not a big Jones fan either, as he was a ringleader in getting the Rams move approved, and I was a Rams fan.
I'm just surprised at how liberal the owners and the league have turned out to be. Perhaps they feel threatened that the players will go all crazy if they aren't coddled. But it's a losing bet, because the players are driving the fans away without even trying.
Damn straight...:)
The main reason I have DirecTV was for the NFL Sunday Ticket. Now that I have cancelled auto renewal there is little reason to keep DTV. I’m looking to bail out in a month or two. I may not be the only one.
Jerry should switch to the XFL.
Jones paid.
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/22680285/jerry-jones-dallas-cowboys-reimburses-nfl-2m-legal-fees
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