Getty ImagesThe stunning Adrian Peterson child-abuse case trumped what had been the biggest story of the week. But what had been the biggest story of the week could still be the biggest story of the weekend.
According to Bloomberg.com, a women’s advocacy group had arranged for a banner to be flown over four NFL stadiums in Week Two urging the ouster of Commissioner Roger Goodell.
Planes pulling the message “@Ultraviolet: #GoodellMustGo” will fly for two hours before games at MetLife Stadium (Cardinals-Giants), First Energy Field (Saints-Browns), Levi’s Stadium (Bears-49ers), and Lucas Oil Stadium (Eagles-Colts). No-fly restrictions apply at all stadiums one hour before kickoff.
Both Ultraviolet and the National Organization for Women have called for Goodell to resign after the release of the Ray Rice elevator video and the NFL’s efforts to explain what it knew, when it knew it, and why it even needed to know what was on the video in order to understand what Rice knocking his then-fiancée out actually looked like.
Can’t wait for the HBO movie about the downfall of Roger Goodell.
Just shut up!
I’m glad banners don’t fly overhead when I have a rough week at work.
Tebow curse on the NFL!
Love it that so many people think they have a skin in the game lol.
C’mon man…it’ll be a 30 for 30
People should be more worried about the laws of the country and not the laws of the NFL…..Get a grip
That’s the question I’ve been asking people ALL week. …… why did you need the video to know what happened? Common sense is not so common nowadays.
I love that they focus on his employer for giving him a light punishment, but the courts seem to be getting a free pass.
If they really cared about helping women, they would focus on the failure of our court systems. That would truly potentially affect millions of women.
I have news for them- there are thousands of employers out there who employ wife beaters and have NEVER suspended or fired them. I am assuming they fly banners over those employers businesses too?? Of course not!
If anyone is truly angry, be angry at our courts. Ray Rice (or anyone for that matter) wouldn’t be able to play any games from behind bars.
Great!!! Good luck ladies!!!
I don’t think it was a question of having seen the video. I suspect the real issue was taking the lead from the authorities, who did basically nothing. That was a mistake.
As for whether they had the video or saw the video, it’s really not important, except to people who are looking to jump on any opportunity to bring Goodell down. Don’t care either way. If/when they replace him, I’ll be here to post “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss”…and a couple years after that, when everyone’s clamoring for *his* head…
Glad to hear it.
If you think this is something, wait until the breast cancer pink campaign starts, and the women’s groups will be asking about the hypocrisy of the NFL commissioner and owners.
Shield will take a big hit then. Think they’ll cancel?
There are many many reasons why Goodell needs to go. This is just one of them.
Good! And btw, spare us the pink in October Roger.
What a complete waste of money. Obviously more money than sense.
Enough of this already. Goodell didn’t abuse his wife. Didn’t beat his kid. Didn’t get a DUI after already being on probation. Stop trying to create a scapegoat for these scenarios. Do you really think the next commissioner, hired by the owners, is going to be any less lenient? And based on what we’ve seen over the past several weeks – should he be?
Wonder where the banner was about RAY RICE? He knocked out his beloved! Most women I know, kind of blame HIM! not Goodell. the NOW organization of women looks silly and they are!
Calling for this guy to lose his job is crazy. The police knew what happened, they didn’t punish Rice. The Ravens knew what happened, and they basically held a press conference to praise the guy. Goodell is the only one who actually punished Rice, and he did it twice, and people want him fired. Sheesh.
This extremely short sighted….how about all the other players that have abused women and these groups were no where to be found? Now that we have a video they are gonna get all up in arms?
I’ve been saying and still say that Goodell needs to resign…but not for the reasons these groups are giving. The black eye this mismanagment has left on the league, the cavalier attitude toward rules and regulations he put in place, the lying, the poor initial punishment and his history of severe judgements with statements regarding those judgements that fly back in his face are the reasons I think his credibility is shot.
The credibility of these groups is shot the second the media firestorm and a chance to been seen are the reasons they’re going on the offensive. The NFL has had this attitude towards domestic violence much longer than just this case…where was the outrage then? Seems like it’s more for publicity than help and that’s sad.
Now everybody is seeing what Saints fans knew all along about ole Roger the Dodger
Love how everyone is a know it all and thinks they could be commissioner of the nfl. Fans are sounding like morons now more the ever.
Can’t Mara and Kraft organize for these planes with the anti-Goodell messages to get shot down as part of national defense?
how the hell does Gordon get 10 game suspension when under the new limits he was completely clean ? man goodell has a hard on for the browns. demarice smith has got to be the worst negotiator in the history on negotiators. with the league and goodell reeling from the rice fiasco all they got for a new number for pot is 35 nanograms ? that is still 15 under what the u.s. government uses and 115 under what the Olympic committee uses?
Just like the banners over the old sombrero in Tampa
“Throw McKay in the Bay”
Eventually they booted him.
Get rid of this cancer
This is totally media driven, now the media knows what is best.
That is where the problem sits. The entire world that followed this incident knew he hit her but only saw the aftermath. Peoples poor imagination led to this outrage. They should have been this mad before the video. I believe its too late to change your rage. His money grubbing wife wants him back in the league. She threatened him with prison or marriage and now she is not receiving her checks. Leave them alone so she can buy stuff……
@49erstim
Exactly!
Roger the Dodger has some “Skinny” in his game!
I wish those banners had flown the second he was hired then the game would not be the mess that it is now with rules that cannot be consistently called and don’t make sense such as the defenseless WR or helmet to helmet rules.
A 6’200lbs DB has to let a 6’6 255lbs TE catch the ball and protect themselves or whatever before hitting them??
The helmet being where it is can be impossible to avoid at times.
If Goodell must go the owners will waist no time throwing him under the bus. But fans need to come to the realization that it won’t matter because ultimately Roger is just a patsy for the owners and he does their dirty work and shields them from the public, and he does a really good job apparently.
The next commish will do the same thing.
It’s time to go bro!
Where were these groups when Goodell handed out the 2 game suspension I didn’t see them protesting or anything did u have to see the video to kno what happened??? This is ridiculous we have alot more problems in this country then this Yea it was disgusting but he’s paying for it now…. Goodell must go Yea prolly but I don’t need planes flying over frankly he killed game with the rules, fines etc
With all the guys that need to go there will be a traffic jam in the sky.
@ pats3rings:
Yeah, all Pats fans want Goodell to stay. Robert Kraft and Ole Roger Goodell are practically best friends lol
Nobody will even see it. Pointless
If you don’t like football, or how football players act, Then don’t watch the game, and don’t pay money to the game. irs that simple. The NFL dug their own grave too because they are too stupid to realize that trying to get everyone in the country to watch football, these are the consequences.
For everyone preaching hate on Adrian, Ray, and Goodell. Go find an actual role model like a fireman, or soldier, etc. I wish everyone that doesn’t actually care about the SPORT of football would stop being apart of the game, and let people that love watching football to escape from real life for a day every week actually get back to doing so.
@sb44champs
I could not care less if Roger stays or goes and obviously Kraft and all of the owners support him they hand picked him and hired him to do a job, a job that he has done well in their eyes.
My point is all of the changes in the league over the past 5 years have nothing to do with Roger. The rule changes, the emphasis on offense, and even the Ray Rice situation is all on the owners. Anyone who thinks that Roger doesn’t check with the owners before he makes any decision is just living in a fantasy world. But then again that’s exactly what the owners want you to think. What makes me laugh is how gullible some NFL fans are, it’s so obvious that Roger is just a front for the owners but people really think change will come with a new commissioner.
The owners paid Roger 40+ million last year despite the majority of NFL fans thinking he was a idiot who is ruining football. If that doesn’t tell you everything you need to know then your hopeless.
people need to boycott the nfl. the owners will never get rid of roger goodell he makes them all kinds of money. I want him fired so bad I cant stand it. im sick and tired of the nfl so I will boycott no more games will I go to I will not watch it. it will be hard but the only thing the owners will understand is when there loosing money.
All these NBA owners being held accountable. Even holding their self accountable. Roger would never in his life hold himself accountable for his actions. Nope that elitist.
One woman is beaten by her husband or partner every 15 seconds in the United States. (Uniform Crime Reports, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1991)
Number of reports of child abuse every year in the United States: 2.9 million or 7945 a day. (safehorizon.org)
I think a lot of NFL fans need to grow up, stop lionizing these athletes…they are no different or better just a richer than us.
I’m sure all the fun having tailgaters will look up and go “what does that say?”
@ pats3rings:
Easy to say when your team is always the beneficiary of biased discipline from Goofdell (see Spygate=slap on wrist/burned tapes)
harleyrg says:
Sep 13, 2014 9:38 AM
people need to boycott the nfl. the owners will never get rid of roger goodell he makes them all kinds of money. I want him fired so bad I cant stand it. im sick and tired of the nfl so I will boycott no more games will I go to I will not watch it. it will be hard but the only thing the owners will understand is when there loosing money.
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I got a $1000.00 that says your sitting in front of your tv watching football Sunday.
Why aren’t they protesting the DA’s office who didn’t prosecute? Or Ray Rice’s house? I guess that won’t get as much media coverage. I’m not a Goodell fan, but why is the “media mulisha” not focused on the actual perpetrators? What will they do when Ray Rice is given his “2nd chance” in the NFL? He should be banned not the only guy who actually tried to punish the disgusting woman beating trash bag… Aka Ray Rice.
@ pats3rings:
Also, I’m very aware that Goodell is a front for the owners and I don’t blame Goodell for the rule changes, that’s on the owners… I completely blame him for the biased discipline he hands out depending on which team the player plays for…….FACTS
Would someone explain to me, that if he had seen the video, what exactly would be the motivation for Goddell to try to cover up the Ray Rice investigation? If it was Adrian Peterson I could understand but why would he stick his neck out for Ray Rice?
So the commissioner of the league with the toughest domestic abuse penalties in all of pro sports must go but the MLB which has no domestic abuse penalties at all don’t get banners at stadiums or public outcry?
MLB players have done everything NFL players have done and more including trying to strangle a spouse with a phone cord but do the women’s groups care about that? Not as much as trying to oust the man who just gave a domestic abuser a lifetime ban.
It’s a really screwed up world we live in where the women’s groups are out to get the only commissioner who has done anything about domestic abuse.
It’s all about publicity, not about the actual cause.
Why didnt they arrange any flights over the next Chris Brown concert?
Gödel got caught with his pants down and this is great start to support his outage. If you really want to get the owners attention, stop going to games, stop buying NFL approved products. They will cry then.
I’ve been saying and still say that Goodell needs to resign…but not for the reasons these groups are giving. The black eye this mismanagment has left on the league, the cavalier attitude toward rules and regulations he put in place, the lying, the poor initial punishment and his history of severe judgements with statements regarding those judgements that fly back in his face are the reasons I think his credibility is shot.
Sounds like he has all the qualifications to rrun for president
This will have about as much effect as the Tim Tebow banners that flew over the Jags stadium last year.
Let’s face it, these organizations don’t want Goodell fired; they want publicity. They want money. They love Goodell. He’s their fundraising issue of the month.
NOW has as much credibility on this issue as the people they support:
Ted Kennedy, or for that matter, any of the Kennedy’s (Mary Jo who?)
Bob Menendez (all those “legal” 16 year olds in the Caribbean)
Planned Parenthood (how many potential woman are killed each day)
Bill Clinton (too numerous to list)
Hillary Clinton (turned her head on each of the too numerous to list)
What is that saying again?? Stones, glass houses?
Dont like Goodell but for him to get fired over this is surprising. I would have much rather seen him fired over the wussification of football.
It’s on Goodell or should I say Senator Goodell.he cannot help
himself . He has had tobe out in front of all. He insists on being the face of the NFL.. Forget Manning, Brady, Senator Goodell is the product.
He runs his office like a Senator ( he has his chief of staff) .
He takes every chance he can to get his face in front of the camera.
Did we see Tagliabue half as much ? When you insist on being judge
and jury, you must prove that you are above reproach….something
that Senator Goodell has fallen short of. It is his own fault!
Those are great fans.
Please influence the sponsors now!!
@sb44champs
Well then it would appear your out of luck. Because if Kraft and the other influential NFL owners have as much say over the current commissioner as you think they do, and I would tend to agree, then what makes you think anything would change with a new commissioner? Especially when you consider the fact that Kraft, Rooney, Mara, etc. will be making the decision on who to hire? The most influential NFL owners will still be calling the shots regardless of who the commissioner is.
“No Cred Red”
As fun as all this has been, this is the 65th article on the topic. This used to be about beaten women. Now it’s about beaten dead horses. What was once a domestic violence discussion has become a animal rights one.
Blame the rule changes on all those broke players suing the league. They’re the real reason football has become a non contact sport
It is embarrassing having Goodell as commish…. was hoping he would be gone by now…
I laugh when media people that clearly are not NFL regulars, say this is the worst week in football history. Come on now Hernandez killed people the NFL had domestic violence issues before this is not the 1st. Rae Carruth says hello that was worse.
@ pats3rings:
Everyone knows that Goodell chooses how and when to discipline players. The owners have nothing to do with Goodell’s decisions on discipline. They can’t, it would be a major conflict of interest. Therefore, a different commissioner will most likely choose to have a more structured discipline process, not the shoot from the hip biased way Goodell chooses to discipline. TRUTH
sb44champs:
Haha, you don’t think Steve Bisciotti was consulted about Ray Rice’s 2 game suspension? Come on man!
sb44champs:
I get it your a Saints fan. If you want to play the victim then so be it.
I am going to line all of “YOU” up and spank you with a switch. I am going to call the media, so I can have it taped from many different angles. Then I’m going to release different parts of the tape at different times, but never release the audio. I’m going to get a job at Target, so that when the tapes are seen, everyone will demand me to be terminated. Then Target will face US scrutiny for ever hiring me in the first place. We will fly banners over every Target in America that should say “sublimalsteeler must go”. Something that comes out later is that I called all of you Redskins to your face before I spanked you (which would be a double spanking). But that was after a lot of money was paid to have the audio files released. But only part of the audio was released, so you wouldn’t know the whole story. Because if everyone knew the reason I spanked you in the first place…this may have never been a story at all.
For those of you who truly think Goodell is 100 percent responsible for player discipline ask yourselves who stands to benefit the most from Ray Rice only getting a two game suspension? What would Roger’s motivation have been for not looking at the tape and going easy on Rice unless his bosses were telling him to do so.
Unless of course you truly believe that Goodell is just an idiot. In which case I would suggest you stop being so naive.
Fire Fueher Goodell !!!!
good – hope the NFL then stops supporting KOmen for the Kash with the pink crap later. See who loses the most.
Goodell retaliates by cancelling breast cancer awareness month. No pink for you!
I get that people, especially Saints fans, want to see Roger axed because of some of the incidents over the past few years. But as long as the owners have complete say over who takes on the job nothing will change.
If Roger gets fired the owners will just hire Roger 2.0.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss!
NOW needs to stop…NOW!
next thing you will know , NFL network will be doing a show on the “Greatest Commissioner Ever”.
This guy has gone around pointing fingers, now he has three pointing back at him.
So public figures who lie should be kicked out of their job?
Are they flying banners over the New Jersey prosecutor’s offices as well? Asking for his resignation? You know the person who legally is responsible for punishing criminals?
To quote Borat “HIGH FIVE!”
I can’t wait to see the punishments that Goodell levies on these pilots (not the owners of the planes). I can’t help but think Roger will send out a team of tactical experts with surface to air missile launchers.
If Ray Rice is suspended indefinitely why is Greg Hardy playing? This is why Goodell needs to go, there is no consistency or credibility. They all acted shocked when the elevator tape went public which comes off as reactionary and insincere to me. I was not shocked by the tape, I had been hearing the whole time he knocked her out in the elevator, the tape just confirmed what I already knew. They had 6 months to investigate and come up with proper discipline but in the end, TMZ had the final say, not Goodell. His power has been usurped and he can no longer effectively commission this league.
Um, some how I think the people at the game are not giving to give a hoot. Nice waste of donor money gals!
@ pats3rings:
Goodell is responsible for his biased discipline, not the owners (as much as you want to think so). Anyone would be better than Goodell. Its called a STRUCTURED DISCIPLINE PROCESS. So why did Paul Tagliabue vacate the player suspensions from the B.S. Bountygate if Goodell is so right? Obviously confidence has been eroded and the general public wants him gone..
Well said ajd4
Every one of these women in these groups are sexist….They became what they fought against.
Why would they pay to seek the firing of Goodell? I’m sure that money is better spent helping victims. Why waste the money of donors (and potentially taxpayers)?
The only way Goodell will be fired is if the owners get hurt where it hurts most – the wallet. And yet these banners will fly over stadiums where people continue to buy tickets, concessions, and merchandise.
Reminds me of many a banner at Philadelphia Eagles games in the 1990s until Lurie outlawed them…
defscottyb says:
Sep 13, 2014 9:25 AM
Nobody will even see it. Pointless
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Not true, these are all nationally televised games. The media will show it and it will make its way into every living room and bar in America. I guarantee you discuss these banners this weekend.
i’m not a fan of goodell’s policies but i don’t like the whole public mob mentality to get somebody fired. he should not be fired just because the public pressure is at an all time high.
If public pressure is at an all time high then there must be a good reason for that. Public trust in Goodell is gone for good and that is reason enough for him to go..
I agree that women’s groups should now be in charge of all NFL decisions.
Once again, liberals are ruining everything this country loves…
For who? For what?
Signed, R. Watters
It’s not the main reason I want him out, but I’ll roll with whatever works.
The feeding frenzy needs to stop!
taintedsaints2009 says:
Sep 13, 2014 2:49 PM
i’m not a fan of goodell’s policies but i don’t like the whole public mob mentality to get somebody fired. he should not be fired just because the public pressure is at an all time high.
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You’re right, he should be fired for incompetence.
People attending the games will ridicule the banners.
The real target audience will be the people who watch the evening news.
It seems to me that if any changes are to be made, these women activists must convince other women that it should be illegal for men to beat up women.
That won’t happen until female fans quit wearing Ray Rice jerseys to Ravens games.
Why isn’t the prosecutor being called out instead of Rodger Goodell?
Leave Adrian Peterson alone!
Ridiculous
How about donating the money to pay for the childish act to go to a women’s shelter. You go PCer’s