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RE: NBR: How long until Roger Goddell resigns?
By marrying the "victim", she can't be required to testify if charges are brought by authorities. The "what ifs" that can be asked are - What if she had hit the elevator wall and suffered a neck injury resulting in paralysis or other permanent loss of capability?. What if she wonders years later why her hands begin shaking and/or her short term memory is fading? The NFL lawsuit is presently dealing with such issues due to cranial injuries that don't show up until later life.

When a person strikes out physically with fists or a weapon, he/she gives no thought to long range possibilities resulting from their impulsive act (like where do the bullets that miss the intended target go?). The attacker is only intent on delivering an injury to their intended victim. The rest of the story is not considered.
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RE: NBR: How long until Roger Goddell resigns?
I think if he hasn't gone anywhere yet he probably won't be going anywhere. Who is going to make him leave?

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RE: NBR: How long until Roger Goddell resigns?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl...03317/%20-

Quote:In his first news conference since that horrifying Ray Rice video sent the NFL into a downward spiral, Goodell did little Friday afternoon to assure to anyone that he and the league are any closer to getting a handle on preventing domestic violence.



Do SJWs even listen to themselves?

Shouldn't we have the league wipe out world hunger first before moving on to domestic violence?
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RE: NBR: How long until Roger Goddell resigns?
(09-19-2014 11:31 PM)imjustafatkid Wrote:  I think if he hasn't gone anywhere yet he probably won't be going anywhere. Who is going to make him leave?

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Money talks, that’s the only reason Rice and the others aren’t playing. With that being said that same money is not happy with Goodell at all. One of the big breast cancer awareness group pulled their sponsorship earlier this week and reports indicate that Anheuser-Busch is currently of the fence about pulling out. If that happens Goodell is done.
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RE: NBR: How long until Roger Goddell resigns?
Goodell gets paid about $45m/year. That puts him in the area of the top ten corporate CEO's. He better get a handle on things, fast, or they will find a new figurehead. He's botched a lot of things and gotten away with it - but losing corporate sponsors combined with the scrutiny and pressure on the owners means he better come up with some answers and a sound policy damn fast. "We're working on it" two weeks into the crisis ain't gonna take the pressure off.

It's not like it would be hard for the NFL to find someone else to take that job, one who is not stained in the national press as arbitrary and ineffectual. He's a figurehead, and those are pretty disposable.
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RE: NBR: How long until Roger Goddell resigns?
(09-20-2014 08:24 AM)AnimeBlazer Wrote:  Shouldn't we have the league wipe out world hunger first before moving on to domestic violence?

If NFL players were starving people, sure.
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(09-20-2014 11:09 AM)UAB Band Dad Wrote:  Goodell gets paid about $45m/year. That puts him in the area of the top ten corporate CEO's. He better get a handle on things, fast, or they will find a new figurehead. He's botched a lot of things and gotten away with it - but losing corporate sponsors combined with the scrutiny and pressure on the owners means he better come up with some answers and a sound policy damn fast. "We're working on it" two weeks into the crisis ain't gonna take the pressure off.

It's not like it would be hard for the NFL to find someone else to take that job, one who is not stained in the national press as arbitrary and ineffectual. He's a figurehead, and those are pretty disposable.

And all of the stuff that broke on OTL on ESPN yesterday certainly hasnt helped him nor the Ravens front office.
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RE: NBR: How long until Roger Goddell resigns?
It's a situation where the organizations should have been taken care of things all along. Instead, most looked away.

Goodell didn't care until pressure was put on him.

Now to try and save face he is instituting this mandatory training for everyone.
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RE: NBR: How long until Roger Goddell resigns?
(09-20-2014 11:15 AM)Smaug Wrote:  
(09-20-2014 08:24 AM)AnimeBlazer Wrote:  Shouldn't we have the league wipe out world hunger first before moving on to domestic violence?

If NFL players were starving people, sure.

You might not be aware of this, but DV exists outside of the NFL, it's players and league representatives.
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Re: RE: NBR: How long until Roger Goddell resigns?
(09-20-2014 10:02 AM)GreenHornet33 Wrote:  
(09-19-2014 11:31 PM)imjustafatkid Wrote:  I think if he hasn't gone anywhere yet he probably won't be going anywhere. Who is going to make him leave?

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Money talks, that’s the only reason Rice and the others aren’t playing. With that being said that same money is not happy with Goodell at all. One of the big breast cancer awareness group pulled their sponsorship earlier this week and reports indicate that Anheuser-Busch is currently of the fence about pulling out. If that happens Goodell is done.

I thought proctor and gamble just removed sponsorship for breast cancer awareness month but is still a sponsor.

Basically they just did some window dressing.

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RE: NBR: How long until Roger Goddell resigns?
(09-20-2014 11:55 AM)AnimeBlazer Wrote:  
(09-20-2014 11:15 AM)Smaug Wrote:  
(09-20-2014 08:24 AM)AnimeBlazer Wrote:  Shouldn't we have the league wipe out world hunger first before moving on to domestic violence?

If NFL players were starving people, sure.

You might not be aware of this, but DV exists outside of the NFL, it's players and league representatives.

Seems I'd heard something about that, now that you mention it. So, why shouldn't the NFL clean its own house?
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RE: NBR: How long until Roger Goddell resigns?
(09-20-2014 12:13 PM)Smaug Wrote:  
(09-20-2014 11:55 AM)AnimeBlazer Wrote:  
(09-20-2014 11:15 AM)Smaug Wrote:  
(09-20-2014 08:24 AM)AnimeBlazer Wrote:  Shouldn't we have the league wipe out world hunger first before moving on to domestic violence?

If NFL players were starving people, sure.

You might not be aware of this, but DV exists outside of the NFL, it's players and league representatives.

Seems I'd heard something about that, now that you mention it. So, why shouldn't the NFL clean its own house?

It should, but only as part of a much larger societal campaign.

Imagine if just half the amount of ink, fretting, white-guy-in-suit blaming, and point missing going on was directed at the culture actually producing the thugs responsible for the actual hitting of the actual women.

Firing Goddell, buying a t-shirt, releasing a smug PSA, and going on a half-marathon isn't going to stop DV. Only bud nippin' is.

Barney Fife would make more headway. Not to mention the fact that some of the chatter about the NFL and DV is really more about the perception by some in this society that such a violent game as football has found its way somehow on the wrong side of history. So there's some of that all mixed in there too.

Which is why the primary focus should remain where it belongs--on the actual domestic violence and the perpetrators thereof and not on some other guy's job.

Because as things continue to go when Goddell is fired the women are going to continue to get punched. And isn't stopping that what it's all about?
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RE: NBR: How long until Roger Goddell resigns?
NFL players sign a contract for big dollars. They get paid those big dollars in sixteen chunks, 1/16 per game, plus whatever bonuses and incentives. If the NFL makes a rule that a first offense DV is a four or six game suspension, no appeal, and second offense is eight games or a full season, and on the third they are banned from the league, then all of a sudden these guys will be punching holes in walls or breaking furniture - but not beating up their women.

Part of the problem is that enforcement is completely arbitrary, and it depends on how ugly the situation was, how much publicity it drew, and most of all who the player is and what his value to the team is. Star players get away with a helluva lot more than third stringers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/20/sports....html?_r=1

"Within the first year of the personal conduct policy, the contrast in the handling of different cases was on display when three members of the Pittsburgh Steelers — running back Najeh Davenport, linebacker James Harrison and wide receiver Cedrick Wilson — were accused in domestic violence cases, according to news reports at the time.

Mr. Davenport, who was accused during the season, was never suspended and was acquitted after a trial that took place after the season. Mr. Harrison, a star and an important player during the Steelers’ run to the Super Bowl after the 2008 season, also was not suspended. But Mr. Wilson, a lesser-known player, was dropped from the team within hours of his arrest, and he never played in the N.F.L. again."

It might also be pointed out that the two owners investigating the Rice situation are Mara of the Giants, and Rooney of the above mentioned Steelers. I'm sure that their judgement will be very evenhanded. /blue font off
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