It just seems that if you can reach a decision on your own that that decision you made a few weeks ago was wrong, that you can make the decision that it's wrong when making the decision, but apparently not. I'd hope that if a judge came out and said "you know that $375,000 judgement I made the other week, it should have been $1.1m soz" he'd get ridiculed for it rather than praised for apologising. But whatever, as you say that's life, we have very low standards for people.
Well, the alternatives, as I see them, are:
1.) Never making a mistake (not possible).
2.) Never admit you're wrong (which seems to be the M.O. for a lot of folks, but kind of a cruddy way to contribute towards advancing a civilization, IMO).
If you think folks should be publicly horse whipped every time they make a mistake, you're gonna encourage a whole lot more folks to pursue route #2, I'd think.
Goodell has a lot of issues. He's been far from a perfect Commish. But I thought today showed some class. No point in deriding him because he owned up to messing up, IMO.