At least lawyers understand due process.

Your small mindedness is sickening. If you live by this definition then you surely have been taken advantage of many times in your life.

The NFL didn’t pick names out of a hat, they seized upon hearsay and corroborated evidence with the intent to paint a picture that was grossly exaggerated. They needed to make a strong example of someone and the Saints had just enough for the NFL to show that they were trying to “Change the culture of the NFL”.

The problem was they were too harsh with the penalties and they didn’t anticipate the amount of blowback they’ve received from the accused and some of the media.

I commend PFT for actually doing due diligence to stick with this story when the “sports network” would rather talk about an aging baseball player trying to get a date.

As much as I hate lawyers, I suspect if he had, we wouldn’t be in this mess.

He needs to resign. Seriously.

If there is one, Kennedy better back track quick. If not Goodell ought to just slink away for good.

London football – detriment far outweighs benefit

Pink October – total sell-out Roge

Evolution of flag football…we watch it for the hard hits, moron!

Ditto…Goodell must go!

You must be a PR expert! When I first started reading it, I thought you were a moron. But then I came to realize the plan is brilliant! You must be or work for a politician!!! Haha!!

You’ll be either incorrect or lying again and again.

But since you know all about this, how much money did the players get in return for Goodell’s power?

That’s a rhetorical question. Anyone that followed the lockout knows there was no economic ties to the continuation of Goodell’s power as sole disciplinarian, which is something the NFLPA gave Goodell back in 2007 without asking anything in return.

Dude, where have you been? The players have a class action suit against the league regarding head injuries. When it finally goes to court (years from now) the league wants to be able to introduce the bounty investigation as 1 of many pieces of evidence that points the finger back at the players, saying, ‘we didn’t hurt you, you hurt yourselves.’

There is not one single contract of any size, shape or construction that is outside the laws of the USA. This absolutely includes the CBA, which I have not, nor will I read. If, as many have indicated, the players agreed to give RG all the authority for everything, they have actually placed him in a position of trust. Therein lies the key; he must exercise more care in the execution of this position than is normally required. Just ask any banker; you will learn about trust situtions. And, this is probably why the good judge will have a lot to say before conclusion.

Children always lash out at authority figures.
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Yeah but how often to authority figures screw children over on a whim, or drive indelible wedges between children and their communities?

The memo never said you agreed with what Childress said. The memo said that Childress was the one who brought it up to the NFL and then the NFL spoke to you to ask about it.

The original whistleblower is not the important one. The original whistleblower merely got the NFL to send a message to the Saints telling them to “stop the program if it does, in fact, exist”.

Commisioner Goodell works for THEM and serves at THEIR pleasure. To suggest he’s making it up as he goes – or is doing anything different than what is expected of him by the owners is patently absurd.

Do you hear owners objecting to what he’s doing? Duuh!

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you make a good point. However, if the owners objected, do you think they would blab to the media or handle it in a private meeting?

Now, with this, I’m beginning to wonder why

1) Goodell doesn’t lay more cards on the table.

2) if the players are innocent, did Williams and Payton (and, by extension, Benson) take their suspensions with nowhere near as much fight as the players are giving

3) the above aren’t least somehow publicly or privately (which would surely become public) backing up the players’ claims.

Something doesn’t smell right all the way around.

I think he is saying this now because he wants to be in the NFL. If he comes across as a whistle blower, then no team will trust him. Jimmy could have done this a long time ago, but never did, so that says something.
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He did say so, from the very beginning of all of this. Even Anthony Hargrove said he didn’t tell him anything. Kennedy has stated that Hargrove never told him anything about a bounty and he never told the NFL or anyone else that Hargrove did so either.

I’m sure after randomly picking the saints for no reason, Godell then randomly chose Kennedy to be the snitch. The only thing angrier than a person being wrongly accused is a person that gets caught and called out for it.