The Goodell-Must-Go Bag
SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
by BILL SIMMONS
My Thursday-night pick: Baltimore -2.5 over Pittsburgh. Who cares? Does ANYONE care? Let’s break out the special-edition “HOW THE HELL DOES ROGER GOODELL STILL HAVE A JOB?” mailbag!
But first … how the hell does Roger Goodell still have a job?
Seriously … how the hell does Roger Goodell still have a job?
In all caps … HOW THE HELL DOES ROGER GOODELL STILL HAVE A JOB?
In bolded, italicized caps … HOW THE HELL DOES ROGER GOODELL STILL HAVE A JOB?
One more time …
HOW THE HELL DOES ROGER GOODELL STILL HAVE A JOB?
My answers: I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know, I seriously don’t know, and I can’t f---ing figure it out (I don’t know).
It’s official: Roger Goodell is the worst sports commissioner of my lifetime.
That’s something I nearly included in last week’s column about his embarrassingly incompetent eight-year reign, ultimately deciding that it might be too harsh. It’s not too harsh. He’s the worst. He’s worse than anyone in the original Lousy Commish Mount Rushmore: Fay Vincent, John Ziegler, Larry O’Brien and early Gary Bettman. He’s worse than whoever ran the NASL into the ground. He’s worse than Vince McMahon during that one XFL season. He’s worse than William Regal. (Inside joke for the WWE nerds.) He’s worse than the guys who ran the WFL, USFL and MISL (three leagues that no longer exist).
Goodell made history this week — for me, anyway — by becoming the first major sports commissioner ever to inspire me to say, “Doesn’t this feels like Nixon all over again?” How can the same scandal blow up in someone’s face THREE DIFFERENT TIMES? It’s impossible!
But this is America and people love going against the grain. I assumed that I would find at least a couple of reader emails that either defended Goodell or halfheartedly tried to make a case for him.
I was wrong. I didn’t find one.
As always, these are actual emails from actual readers.
more:
http://grantland.com/the-triangle/roger-goodell-need-to-step-down/
DO SOMETHING!
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