Throughout this past week, the saga involving former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has taken a new twist and turn every day. But throughout it all, Goodell has been sticking to his original story that he had no knowledge of Rice violently striking his fiancee in the hotel elevator, not up until he saw the tape we all saw on Monday morning.
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Well, it appears that the Commissioner may have been caught in another lie.
According to an Outside the Lines report from ESPN, when Rice met with Goodell this past summer, he indeed did come clean with his boss about what happened that night in the elevator in Atlantic City, telling him that he did throw the punch.
“Ray didn’t lie to the commissioner,” a source with knowledge of the meeting told “Outside the Lines.” “He told the full truth to Goodell — he made it clear he had hit her, and he told Goodell he was sorry and that it wouldn’t happen again.”
“He told the truth,” a second source said. “This is a public lynching of Ray.”
Throughout this all, Goodell has been playing the role as if he knew absolutely nothing of what really did happen that night. But throughout the course of the past few days, including Wednesday’s events which saw an AP report state that law enforcement officials provided a tape to the NFL offices, it seems as if Goodell knew more about everything that happened than he has been leading everyone to believe this whole time.