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Right now they are involved in a suit versus Keapernick and a couple of owners and the commissioner have been deposed, an ongoing back and forth (comical) suit versus Elliot..........suspended-not suspended-suspended-not suspended.
............and yesterday AJ McCarron filed a grievance and wants a hearing with an arbitrator to become a free agent. That was a simple issue to solve and the league totally fucked it up. They make exceptions for all sorts of shit all the time. They make up rules as they go along but then shoot down something that two teams wanted to do, and the player wanted as well.
These guys at the NFL's office are really good at doing things badly. Very, very badly.
Over and over for the last few years they have made a mess in public when things have come up.
Ray Rice, Greg Hardy, Spygate, Deflategate, Bountygate, protests during the anthem, replacement refs and a stupid cave-in to a shit union in the worst officiated sport in the country, the concussion issue, Peterson beating his son with a switch and breaking skin on one of the kids balls, the offseason moves, obvious mistakes on the field by refs that affect games, drug suspensions, PED problems, ridiculous gouging of fans, too many commercials and the list goes on.
All along the way Goodell is inconsistent, ham handed and does the opposite of what his goal is, "protect the shield". When he speaks to the public in person or via press release he comes off as arrogant and full of shit. He's not stupid, but he does stupid things. Recently McNair says something stupid about the "inmates running the asylum" (not even the correct quote) and players take offense when the remark wasn't even aimed at them and that fucking coward doesn't do anything to publicly take the hit that McNair was talking about the owners versus the league/Goodell. It's silly that this got turned into a big deal and Goodell could have tamped it down but was afraid to touch it. This was a simple thing to straighten out!
Polls show over and over that people, the paying fans of the sport, are tired of seeing players beat women, get DUI's, fail drug tests and PED tests then sit out a couple of games then continue to make millions. Paying fans are tired of seeing lousy refs make huge mistakes over and over with no real accountability. Go look at any NFL team's message boards and you will see the one thing they all have in common..........complaints about the refs.
When, or if, the owners pull off the coup Jerry Jones is attempting I wonder who will end up as commissioner and what the NFL will be like in the coming years.
The NFL has more problems/issues/complaints than all of the other major sports leagues have combined.
............and yesterday AJ McCarron filed a grievance and wants a hearing with an arbitrator to become a free agent. That was a simple issue to solve and the league totally fucked it up. They make exceptions for all sorts of shit all the time. They make up rules as they go along but then shoot down something that two teams wanted to do, and the player wanted as well.
These guys at the NFL's office are really good at doing things badly. Very, very badly.
Over and over for the last few years they have made a mess in public when things have come up.
Ray Rice, Greg Hardy, Spygate, Deflategate, Bountygate, protests during the anthem, replacement refs and a stupid cave-in to a shit union in the worst officiated sport in the country, the concussion issue, Peterson beating his son with a switch and breaking skin on one of the kids balls, the offseason moves, obvious mistakes on the field by refs that affect games, drug suspensions, PED problems, ridiculous gouging of fans, too many commercials and the list goes on.
All along the way Goodell is inconsistent, ham handed and does the opposite of what his goal is, "protect the shield". When he speaks to the public in person or via press release he comes off as arrogant and full of shit. He's not stupid, but he does stupid things. Recently McNair says something stupid about the "inmates running the asylum" (not even the correct quote) and players take offense when the remark wasn't even aimed at them and that fucking coward doesn't do anything to publicly take the hit that McNair was talking about the owners versus the league/Goodell. It's silly that this got turned into a big deal and Goodell could have tamped it down but was afraid to touch it. This was a simple thing to straighten out!
Polls show over and over that people, the paying fans of the sport, are tired of seeing players beat women, get DUI's, fail drug tests and PED tests then sit out a couple of games then continue to make millions. Paying fans are tired of seeing lousy refs make huge mistakes over and over with no real accountability. Go look at any NFL team's message boards and you will see the one thing they all have in common..........complaints about the refs.
When, or if, the owners pull off the coup Jerry Jones is attempting I wonder who will end up as commissioner and what the NFL will be like in the coming years.
The NFL has more problems/issues/complaints than all of the other major sports leagues have combined.
