Too bad no one has invented a lie detector that works. That polygraph thing has a 57 percent accuracy rating. But hey if one was invented imagine going to MVA to renew your drivers license, and having to pass lie detector to renew it. Or worse my wife gets the take home version of one.

Um…if someone suspended you from your job and wouldn’t tell you or show you why, then any lawyer in the country would gladly take that discrimination case and make your employer pay dearly. Your comments wreak of ignorance.

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Wow, I’m going to go ahead and agree with a Jets fan. Very shortsighted and reeks of trying to get up-votes, rather than thinking before posting. Then again, look at her name — she’s obviously trying very hard to get attention.

I would love to have an employee like you. You understand that the boss is always right. If you should misunderstand your umm extra job duties to perform. You would never use due process or labor laws to claim I was unfair. Also, you would never call OSHA if I wanted to save a few bucks on safety. Heck don’t call the labor board demanding time and half for your extra special duties. After all it’s a private company and a job. So Jennifer here’s to rolling back the clock 100 years.

The NFL and Roger Godell don’t have integrity so much as they play at having integrity. Roger Godell doesn’t represent the NFL so much as he represents the owners financial interests and window dresses the NFL’s reputation …
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Duhhh, really? Mr. Goodell in his position as the Commissioner of the National Football League represents the owners? And I guess you’re going to tell me that DeMoron Smith represents the players? What everyone needs to realize is that the owners’ interests and the well-being of the NFL are ultimately what determines the players’ salaries.

They expect that people will just go along with their decision, not because they are right, but because they are the mighty NFL, and it would be futile to cross them. If you truly feel like you’ve been wronged, why should anyone just roll over and die, simply because Goodell says your’re wrong if you’re not?

I say it again, the NFL itself had a hand in creating the bounty problem. It’s profited from it and known about bounties for decades, yet did nothing about it. The NFL has promoted hard hits, and made it part of their appeal.

Only recently since they’ve been sued, has the NFL taken this stance of caring about player safety. Roger Goodell has mistakes in judgment and bias just like anyone else. Being NFL Commissioner doesn’t mean he’s all knowing.

Couldn’t agree with jenifferxxx more…As far as I know, these guys don’t have a RIGHT to play in the NFL. It’s a job and a private business entity. The fact that PFT seems to think that everything that happens in the NFL now should be decided by the people/courts is a little ridiculous.
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No, it’s absolutely and totally ridiculous. Most employees are “at will” employees (I’m sure Florio knows this) and can be released at any time for any reason. NFL players however, are protected by their union and their individual contracts. To ask to have a third party for oversight is merely pandering to the public.

I couldn’t agree more. I’m so sick of this crap. “External review.” Please. Have Goodell make the decision and then have an appeal heard by a committee made up of current and former coaches, players, NFL reps, etc (or whatever the makeup). Florio, do we really need to encourage more litigation in this country? As one poster pointed out in an earlier thread, pretty soon we’ll have lawyers on the field ready to file affidavits for blown calls. Enough. Football now.

Um…if someone suspended you from your job and wouldn’t tell you or show you why, then any lawyer in the country would gladly take that discrimination case and make your employer pay dearly. Your comments wreak of ignorance.

The ignorance is truly yours. On my job if there is discipline handed down for a violation we are afforded the opportunity to appeal it. After the appeal the penalty can be reduced or remain the same which is exactly what our CBA calls for. I think before you start spouted off information you do a little research so your comments don’t wreak of idiocy and ignorance.

Just look at the penalties handed down for the players in BountyGate. They do not have a hearing, they are not presented with any evidence against them. We do know that much of the testimony against them must have come from guys who lied and lied and lied and then told the players what to say. If Johathan Vilma deserves one year and maybe he does, then Payton, Vitt and deserve life.

Oh, and then look at this concussion business.

Then he said he thinks its kind of funny that their decision was coming back to bite them in the butt.

The truth of the matter is that it was just happening to James Harrison and a few others, most players didn’t care because they didn’t think it would happen to them. Fujita, in my opinion, is the worst. As a member of the exec committee, he agreed to the discipline process. But now that he is being punished, he doesn’t like it. Too bad.

-QG

Couldn’t agree with jenifferxxx more…As far as I know, these guys don’t have a RIGHT to play in the NFL. It’s a job and a private business entity. The fact that PFT seems to think that everything that happens in the NFL now should be decided by the people/courts is a little ridiculous.

Hey, crazy….. I own a fabric and print store, its totally private business entity… can you send all the kids in your family down to my shop, I need some cheap child labor. Oh yea I think I am going to cancel my workmans comp insurance too, shhh don’t tell anyone;) You know what to hell with it I am going to lower my minimum wage tomorrow, fire all the people who have kids I need people to focus on work! Hey its my private business entity, I can do what I want!

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Terrible post..

If someones taking your job away wouldnt you fight to keep it?

League: “I sentence you to 6 games suspension”
Player: “I appeal”
League: “Yea same as before 6 games, we never wrong”

Really?

Doesn’t he still have a 3 game suspension, meaning that they still find him guilty, but decided to be lenient?