Quote:Actually people were pretty outraged about the 2 week suspension before the second video was ever released.  People weren't calling for Goodell's head -- but he mitigated the damage he did with a new policy on Domestic Violence.  


Then when the video was released, it was worse than most people first suspected.  Goodell of course said that the NFL never obtained the second video.  When information came out that they apparently DID obtain the second video, people started calling for Goodell's head.  


If the NFL indeed did obtain the video -- even if Goodell never watched it, I think he's gone.  Because either he knew they got it -- and he lied.  Or he didn't know they got it -- which brings up the question of his ability to control his office.  "Ignorance is not a suitable defense"  Especially given the reaction to the Ray Rice incident from the public.  There's no reason he shouldn't have known -- at least not unless (and I'm stealing this from twitter) his secretary asked a former player to deliver the video to Goodell, but forgot about it because of concussion issues.

 

If it comes out on the other hand that the NFL never received the video -- then he'll keep his job.  

 

To me it's kind of hypocritical to both criticize him for changing the punishment upon seeing the video, and then for possibly seeing the video and giving a lenient punishment.  It doesn't make sense.  You can argue that possibly he didn't make enough of an effort to obtain the video, but why should that matter if the video itself shouldn't matter?   For me, firing Goodell is a pointless farce.  If he lied, he lied to protect the exact people who would be firing him.  The same people who would be firing him would already know the facts, so what information are they waiting to come out?   Goodell and the NFL are in on this together, joined at the hip.  It's their mess.   They will have to fix it together, because people aren't going to buy that it was all on one person.

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