Tone deaf NFL commissioner keeps on fumbling the ball
Roger Goodell continues to do the wrong thing when it comes to tackling the issue of domestic violence in the league
Oh, Roger, you still don't get it.
After spending more than a week in seclusion while his NFL was battered by one domestic violence embarrassment after another, Commissioner Roger Goodell finally emerged on Friday to hold a worthless news conference that essentially hit on these four key points:
- We got it wrong before.
- We'll get it right from now on.
- Don't ask about specifics.
- Now, enjoy the games!
After 45 minutes of sidestepping, all we learned is that the NFL will get back to us in 135 days on how it plans to deal with this scourge on the game.
Sorry, we need action now, not in 2015.
If there was ever a time for this robot of a man to show his human side, to step up and be a leader, it was now. Shed a tear for the victims. Give back part of his US$44 million annual salary. Suspend himself for letting Ray Rice off far too easy after the former Ravens running back knocked his fiancée unconscious in a casino lift.
If there was ever a time for this robot of a man to show his human side, to step up and be a leader, it was now
Instead, Goodell lectured the media in a corporate monotone, his words filled with evasion and vague promises, his only real emotion sparked by a reporter who dared raise a very legitimate issue: Is an investigation by former FBI chief Robert Mueller into the league's handling of the Rice case tainted by Mueller now being a partner in a law firm that has done extensive business on behalf of the NFL.