I wish I could say that about the Broncos, but they have not been showing up to play in the second half. They will not be able to get away with that this weekend.
NFL 2014-2015 Season Discussion
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The way the accusations and arrests are piling up, the league may start having to consider replacement teams. But first, they need a replacement commish. They have quite a mess to clean up. 
Well the Buccaneers looked fantastic last night. Real sleeper team there.
ESPN now reports that Ravens front office knew the contents of the elevator video back in Feb., and asked the league to go easy on Rice. As a Ravens fan, I am ashamed if this is true.
Hopefully, all involved will be held accountable. And all who support the NFL and its teams (from the most rabid die hard down to the casual fan) should let them know how they feel on the subject.
Hopefully, all involved will be held accountable. And all who support the NFL and its teams (from the most rabid die hard down to the casual fan) should let them know how they feel on the subject.
^How many lives does Goodell have? Every day that passes sees another layer of this story peeled away.
If this report is true, Goodell should step down. I thought he should have stepped down after the second video was released, but that apparently was asking too much of him. I will never understand why people go to such great lengths to cover up certain people's misdeeds when so-called lesser individuals are hung out to dry. That such behavior happens in the public eye makes it even worse. Is there no accountability in professional sports?
I suppose the media--and to a certain extent, the fans--are to blame. After all, we place athletes and the people who work with them on pedestals and treat them as though they're better than the rest of us. Maybe it's time we stopped doing that, and started treating them like everyone else.
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If this report is true, Goodell should step down. I thought he should have stepped down after the second video was released, but that apparently was asking too much of him. I will never understand why people go to such great lengths to cover up certain people's misdeeds when so-called lesser individuals are hung out to dry. That such behavior happens in the public eye makes it even worse. Is there no accountability in professional sports?
I suppose the media--and to a certain extent, the fans--are to blame. After all, we place athletes and the people who work with them on pedestals and treat them as though they're better than the rest of us. Maybe it's time we stopped doing that, and started treating them like everyone else.
--Sran
As long as he continues ensuring that his bosses earn billions upon billions of dollars every year, a practically infinite number.
Is the NFL profiting that much more under Goodell than it was under Tagliabue? I'm not naive, and I don't believe for one moment that Goodell's most important job isn't making money (because it is), but does anyone honestly think that if another person were commissioner that the league would be dire straits financially? Professional football is America's most popular sport. Does any NFL owner honestly think Goodell is the reason why?
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Labor peace is one big thing his reign has certainly offered. I think the value of an NFL franchise has never been higher, but I can't say whether or not that's due to Goodell.
Sad to hear that former Titans kicker Ron Bironas was killed in a car accident.
Labor peace? There was a rather acrimonious lockout in 2011, you know.
In any event, Goodell broke the union in the last CBA negotiation (the NFL was never serious about an 18-game season, only using it as a bargaining chip that they could then take off the table as a way of saying "see, we're making progress, why aren't you?"), and the new television contracts are utterly obscene -- he got CBS to fork out an ungodly amount of money for Thursday Night Football, for example.
So, yes, he's making fucktons of money for his bosses. I believe in Goodell's first year, the NFL's gross revenues were something like 35 or 36 percent higher than they were under Tagliabue's last year.
Woops, my bad. I did somehow completely forget about that.
I guess rather than labor peace, a favorable labor situation may be more accurate.
I guess rather than labor peace, a favorable labor situation may be more accurate.
That story keeps getting stranger by the minute...
http://news.yahoo.com/punter-stunned-911-calls-bironas-crash-210958829--spt.html
Redskins just got spanked. 
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Thursday night games really feel like they're leading to terrible quality football. Given how brutal last Sunday was, it would be expecting a lot for the Redskins to turn things around that quickly.
At least two teams that should be quite angry with this Commisioner are New Orleans & New England.
The Saints for "Bounty- gate" and the Patriots for "Spy- gate".
Neither team will express public anger right now but in time, as in next spring or summer perhaps, both teams may start asking serious questions as to the way Goodell handled both of these situations.
It's just my opinion, but if Goodell mishandled the Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson situations, then he probably mishandled Bounty- gate and Spy- gate.
The Saints for "Bounty- gate" and the Patriots for "Spy- gate".
Neither team will express public anger right now but in time, as in next spring or summer perhaps, both teams may start asking serious questions as to the way Goodell handled both of these situations.
It's just my opinion, but if Goodell mishandled the Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson situations, then he probably mishandled Bounty- gate and Spy- gate.
Thursday night games are a terrible, terrible idea.
Well, the criticism here is not being punitive enough. I'm going to take a guess and say that's not your criticism about how he handled those things.
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