Russell Street Report · Jul 25, 2016
In Defense of… Roger Goodell?
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Hear me out before you call me crazy.
Over the weekend, Peter King wrote a piece for MMQB listing the ways in which Roger Goodell can keep his job. Like most fans of the game, I have my issues with ‘The Rog,” and being from Baltimore, the Ray Rice fiasco will always stick in my craw, but ultimately…
…when was he ever on the hot seat?
King starts by delivering an explanation of how much the public hates Goodell (because the majority of the messages he received say so!) and how the league is essentially crickets when it comes to celebrating his 10th anniversary as commissioner of the NFL, while lightly touching on the owners’ approval of Goodell between the two negative points.
