Goodell, What was so hard about responding to a woman being beaten unconscious in an elevator?

[pinto]

By a representative (player) of the organization you lead? In an elevator - an enclosed space with no exit save being dragged into a hallway and left by a member of your organization. And that goes for the rest of the NFL hierarchy, imo.

What was so hard about a timely, appropriate response?

His press conference boggled me in its misdirection. Just a one time vent on my part. I'm leaving follow up to the pundits, law enforcement and the various NFL groups with an obvious, direct interest in the situation.

[shenmue]

1. Punching people is a crime

[yeoman6987]

7. Then let the authorities take care of it

He has way too much patience then I have. I would have got on the lecture and said, my job is to ensure the football teams are ready to go on game days. What they do on their own time is up to the local police. I ask police departments around the country what you are doing to bring justice to those who beat up woman? However, I would say that if one of my players does anything on NFL property, they are gone. Next question? Of course I would be fired, but why does the NFL have to worry about what their players do on their own time? No other profession has this amount of scrutiny. I don't even like football that much, but it just seems like the media is bashing African American men.

[AverageJoe90]

2. Coward. That's what I think he is. A coward.

Probably afraid of upsetting the virtually entirely hardcore conservative portion of his constituency that think it's okay, or even laudable, to punch one's wife just because she didn't do what they wanted right away, or burned their dinner, etc.

[MannyGoldstein]

3. That's why he gets paid the big bucks

Little people like me would have gotten pretty angry if we saw that, and would raise Hell.

[NYC_SKP]

4. Charges need to be filed, fines assessed, and fans should find another hobby.

Fans are, IMHO, partly to blame.

Nothing would hurt them more than to lose revenue by losing their fan base.

At the very least, fans should be demanding actions, but I fear they more often than not are defensive of the "sport" and too heavily invested in it.

I never got aggressive sports, never understood them at all. And rabid fans I really don't get.





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[Boreal]

8. Bread and circuses

While innocent people are being shredded by artillery rounds because of US foreign and economic policy, people are worried about the NFL and the soap operas that are the lives of their cash cows. Look over here!

[moondust]

5. Moneygrubbers,

often moral midgets.

[longship]

6. US football is a horrible culture.

Violence is good? We see the results.

I utterly despise US football.