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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
NFL thugs have been beating up their wives/girlfriends since the days of Jim Brown. Why the sudden convulsive behavior over this part of urban culture? Shouldn’t we glorify diversity? Anyway Goodell should be fired for tolerating the Michael Sams pervert fiasco. He acts like a liberal, bending his core beliefs according to public opinion!
OH Kaslin I saw the video when first came on TMZ not only they knew it about back in Februray
According to TMZ Harvey Levin he didn’t want to know
Dude need to GOOOOO
I think the writer forgot about such paragons of masculine virtue as Bill Clinton and Mark Sanford.
I’ve been a football fan since I was old enough to walk. A die hard fan for the past 25 years.
I’ve about lost all interest in it. Last week was the opening week, and didn’t even watch a play. I doubt I’ll watch any of it this week. I cancelled our satellite TV package where we could watch all of the games.
I’m not sure how it started with me. I think it began with me not watching the pregame or half time analysis(with the exception of Ditka and maybe a couple of others they are terrible). Then there was everyone wearing the pink crap for a month. They screwed up the kicking offs. Good hits bring fines and suspensions. The players are showboats, crybabys and thugs. I could just go on and on about this.
Virtually all of the football news we’ve heard this year has had absolutely nothing to do with actual football or the game.
I’m just sick of it all. To hell with it.
I guess the commissioner could get this under control, and perhaps REAL leadership is required. Maybe he DOES need to go.
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“... the worst example of male behavior that our society has seen.”
Really? REALLY?
I’m thinking that having an affair with a young lady, driving while drunk with her in the car, running off a bridge and leaving her to drown while you try to cover your sorry @$$ - THAT is a far worse example of male behavior.
I say this: If Kennedy was allowed to remain in the Senate, Rice should be allowed to play and Goodall keep his job.
I think what Rice did and what Kennedy did are disgusting - but nobody died in that elevator.