Roger Goodell hands Greg Hardy hearing to Harold Henderson

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Roger Goodell is handing the ball off, but he’s giving it to a guy with a familiar playbook.

According to Mike Garafolo of FOX Sports, the commissioner is waiving his right to hear the appeal of Greg Hardy’s 10-game suspension, and is instead passing it off to Harold Henderson.

On a week when the NFL has plenty of other fires to put out, that could potentially create another one.

Henderson also heard the appeal of Adrian Peterson’s suspension, and upheld Goodell’s findings, based on the idea that Goodell was within his rights to apply the league’s new domestic violence policy to a case that predated its existence. As you might imagine, the NFLPA wasn’t really cool with that,…