Posted on 09/14/2014 9:18:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
It’s show business and anyone can go at any time. He certainly doesn’t have a right to the job, I hear he makes 40+M per year.
NFL is a joke.
I was under the impression that this issue with Rice was already settled. That he went to court, was sentenced and completed his punishment.
was the worst example of male behavior that our society has seen....Oh, really? Gee, everything before that date was erased? How asinine can one be? Goodell is to be fired? How about every CEO that has a wifebeater in his employ? Won’t happen.
A Black guy is caught knocking his wife out and a White guy has to be fired, eh?
Does it get any more ridiculious than this?
Even if he were to go, can you even envision his severance package? CHA CHING!!!!!
Look at what happened to Donald Sterling--once the sponsors of the Clippers started bailing, it was all over for Sterling.
Black guy beats up his wife. So let’s go after a white guy.
If Goodell should step down for anything, it’s for the panoply of ridiculous “no hard hit” rules that his reign has fostered.
That has nothing to do with his status as an NFL player.
According to the news, the settlement was for court-approved counseling, which he completed. The media frenzy was allowed to spin out of control because the NFL didn't respond quickly with the circumstances. It looks like they're scapegoating the wrong guy.
The women and the LIV’s (much the same) that are out there supporting Rice are a good indication of why we are where we are today both here and abroad.
Dude, black guy already lost his job and all his endorsements.
This is ridiculous. Goodell is not involved in this very common tragedy. The player is most responsible. The owner of the team may or may not have some fault. The head of the player's union and the head of the owner's union have much less responsibility.
Yeah right, because the black guy got to keep his job........oh, wait.....
I certainly don’t condone his behavior.
If she had any sense, she’d divorce him, take half his money and move on.
But seriously — I can find more tragic, heart-wrenching stories in the news every day. The Ray Rice story just is NOT important. But I guess in today’s world it is somehow “entertaining”. Which is sick.
Owners union???????
The question that bothers me the most is ‘why the prosecutors have so far refused to arrest Ray Rice’. Everything else is secondary..
Goodell & some of the more liberal owners are destroying the game. But that has more to do with their tinkering with the rules of the game, and not so much their slowness to hand down sanctions for off-field transgressions;
The league needs to develop a flexible policy about punishments for alleged criminal activity. And ESPN needs to stop leading the chorus of second-guessers because — whether they realize it or not — they are killing the game.
I wish this were as simple as firing one executive.
I wish it were as simple as firing one player.
I wish it was simple. It isn’t.
This woman did not deserve the beating she received. She may be the biggest female jerk on the block at that moment, but she didn’t deserve to be knocked out like that.
Her husband is a low life scum. We all know it. So what do we do about it?
By rights, the guy should go to prison, lose his job, and never play professionally again.
In the real world, that’s the sentence his wife would receive too. Her family would lose all it’s income in perpetuity.
So not only would she take the physical beating, she would take a financial beating she would never recover from.
What is the answer to this? Honestly, it is perplexing. The guy shouldn’t get off with no punishment. The wife shouldn’t have insult added to injury.
Perhaps there should be a way for the abuser to continue to play and practice, but have to go back to a penal facility at all other times, to serve there for as long as mandated by a court.
Perhaps keeping him front and center as he serves out that form of punishment, would remind folks that even high paid sports figures can’t get away with this type of behavior.
At least his wife wouldn’t be ruined in the process.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.