NFL: Rockin’ Roger Goodell And The Last Boy Scout
As the NFL continues to spiral towards making an over-the-top 1991 film look plausible, we examine how we got here and how Roger Goodell let it happen.
It’s been quite the start to the offseason for Roger Goodell and the NFL. If it seems like there’s a new scandal every week well…it’s actually more like two a week. Somehow one of the league’s brightest young coaches suing Rog and a few franchises due to institutional racism isn’t even in the top 3 of current headaches for Goodell. Have no fear though fans, the Ken doll who came to life that Goodell is…he’s already on the case to fix everything.
The first move is to send out some press releases that show how wildly clueless he is. Much like the Queen of Hearts, Goodell and the owners demands verdicts first then the trial. How else do you explain issuing a statement denying Flores’s allegations before ever investigating them? We’ve also discovered he makes sure his bosses decide what information is released. Not to mention when he can look into to look into possible malfeasance. Letting Dan Snyder investigate himself, and have the right to keep the results under wraps? Masterful.
Snyder
Like our old friend Billy Mays used to say… but wait there’s more! Once Dan Snyder’s Weinstein hommage was too putrid to ignore he brought in an outside investigator but insisted she deliver her findings orally with no written report. Clearly, there was nothing to hide here. First he made sure Snyder was ok with being fined. Then he forced him to cede control of the franchise to…his wife. I’m sure they don’t discuss the team at all.
Avoiding a paper trail leads us to the Jon Gruden debacle. Gruden is currently suing the NFL, and his case is essentially the following: The NFL hid everything in the Snyder investigation, clearly someone had an issue with me and released my racist emails. While he’s not wrong it’s not a particularly strong legal argument, but maybe he’ll dazzle the jury with some “Spider-x-Banna ” gibberish. Any coach who wears a visor is probably a terrible person anyway, and Gruden obviously had to go.
Dan Snyder stepping back from day to day operations of the @WashingtonNFL.
His wife, Tanya, taking over for the next several months.
The team fined $10 million by the NFL for a "toxic culture."
Beth Wilkinson report = not written, no paper trail.
My report here… pic.twitter.com/CiyAiDuOij
— Scott Abraham (@Scott7news) July 1, 2021