Posted on 09/09/2014 8:11:51 PM PDT by Liberty Valance
Support is growing for former secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to take over as NFL commissioner following criticism of how the league handled the punishment of former Baltimore Ravens player Ray Rice.
The Ravens swiftly canceled Rices five-year contract and the NFL suspended him indefinitely on Tuesday, one day after video surfaced on TMZ.com showing the running back striking his now-wife in an Atlantic City, N.J., elevator. Before the video was made public, Rice had been suspended by the league for two games. The current NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell, later called the original punishment a mistake, writing in a letter last month to owners, I didnt get it right.
The NFL said it had only seen the new video on Monday.
Now, some are saying Condoleezza Rice who expressed an interest in the NFL job before should replace Goodell. A Tuesday editorial in The Washington Post wrote that the NFL is an institution in dire need of Rices help, with a blaring headline: Condi Rice: The one person who could save the NFL.
According to a 2002 story in The New York Times, [Rice] wants to be commissioner of the National Football League. She is serious. That's absolutely right,' she said, 'though not immediately and not before Paul Tagliabue is ready to step down. I want to say that for the record.
Social media has also been buzzing with calls for Goodell, the son of the late Sen. Charles Goodell (R-N.Y.), to step down in favor of Rice.
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She is a brilliant woman who has excelled at everything she has done.
I’m not sure if you’re trying to get me riled up with that, but I see absolutely nothing in common between the two of them.
I am very much for Condi.
That may not be a universal opinion on FR, but in my opinion she is very very qualified for just about anything she puts her sights on.
Hillary, not so much.
too lefty for me
Jerry Jones will support her but only if she does a table dance for him.
At least screwing up as NFL commish wouldn’t be nearly as bad as her debacle as SoS.
Must be amazing living up there in that rarified air of yours. Ignorant statements such as yours confirm the very reason someone of Dr. Rice's stature needs to step up and be counted.
The crazy preogressive haters would never allow her to be picked.
Between this possible new role for Condi, and the re-emergence of Dick Cheney as public commentator and war advisor, there will be a lot of wacked out progressives discussing there outrage!
Lighten up, it was a joke. But maybe you don’t get enough air around your parts to get jokes.
It wasn’t funny.
Maybe you haven’t heard about the latest scandal to hit the NFL today, a lawsuit involving Jerry Jones and sexual harassment.
Oh brother! I could have sworn that I have seen the Ray Rice video on a ESPN channel several times.
No, I haven’t.
Doesn’t that job have ANY qualifications?
Jerry Jones is the owner of the Cowboys. He was sued today for sexual harassment involving strippers in a nightclub. Just the latest in a long line of massive headaches for the NFL.
Jane Skinner is Roger Goodell’s wife.
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