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 Rice’s 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 didn’t 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 Rice’s 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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Aha...now the reason for the minute-by-minute replay if the tape starts to make sense.
I am no Condi Rice fan and I don’t think this is the direction to go. Pandering pure and simple.
I think the NFL has a number of problems and is going in the wrong direction in a number of areas.
The one real thing that will kill and is killing the Golden Goose is overexposure.
Rule changes are anther and inane rules that make no sense.
Ratings are already down.
Condi Rice will never run for President and is no Conservative, she is for the most part a RINO just like George W. Bush was and is.
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