Roger Goodell wants you to think he’s the man of the people and that he’s the commissioner of a league that cares. But right now he might be the most hated man in American sports — which is saying something since he isn’t even the guy who brutally sucker punched a woman in an elevator.
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Goodell claims that the NFL didn’t know that there was an additional Ray Rice video, the one that was released on Monday morning, but there are massive holes in that story. But one thing that Goodell does have is an alibi, as he can with great confidence proclaim he wasn’t around to receive the Ray Rice tape the day it arrived at NFL headquarters.
As pointed out by Jeff Schultz from the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Goodell wasn’t at league offices when the Ray Rice tape came in, he was in a much more important place.
"Please don’t bother Roger Goodell with your unfounded claims that he ignored the Ray Rice video. He was at Augusta National at the time, wearing a green blazer and possibly debating the merits of the pimento cheese sandwiches."
This pretty much highlights why everyone is so angry about the whole situation with Goodell as he wasn’t at his post when the league and when society needed him and there has been a massive discourse that has angered not just sports fans but human beings.
Goodell will never know what it’s like to be savagely attacked in an elevator, he’s never going to know fear the way victims of domestic abuse do — but he’s tasted the pimento cheese sandwiches of Augusta.
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