Goodell will be gone by the end of next week.

[trumad]

Bank on it.

[exboyfil]

1. Nope the "independent investigation"

froze him in place. He's hoping the pitchforks and torches will die down by the time the report comes back (which will be a cover job anyway).

He is not going anyplace.

[yeoman6987]

2. He is lucky football started

This game tonight is frustrating. Figures Ravens may win....ugh!

[dilby]

5. Ravens fired Rice, Steelers still have a rapist for a quarterback.

[yeoman6987]

7. Oh goodness you are still on that?

Didn't he go to court and found innocent? I seriously forgot the case.

[dilby]

8. two women accused him on separate occasions.

And he got off on both, but I am sorry if you have two incidents something is wrong and its a man who thinks women are for his pleasure.

[yeoman6987]

15. He is scummy that is for sure.

[nomorenomore08]

17. Exactly. One false accusation - even if somewhat unlikely statistically - would be plausible enough.

But two (or actually three, if I'm not mistaken)? Doesn't look good for Big Ben to say the least. Pretty safe to say the guy's a certifiable scumbag.

[exboyfil]

19. Read the details of the Georgia case

It is stomach churning. Fit for a movie or a television documentary if anyone has the guts to take it on.

[nomorenomore08]

22. I have, and I'm pretty much 100% sure he was guilty.

Especially since he had his bodyguard stand outside the bathroom and not let anyone in.

The guy's a serial rapist, straight up. Or I'm 99.9% sure he is anyway.

[truebluegreen]

27. OT but this always drives me nuts:

Nobody is found "innocent". "Guilty" or "not guilty" are the only two choices for juries.

[deminks]

3. and Kinda Sleezy Rice will replace him.

and I will continue to never watch football.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/condoleezza-rice-billed-remedy-ails-nfl/story?id=25410775

[CentralMass]

4. Yes, a professional yes women and spinner of lies.

She could dust off her patented "Who could have believed.. " line.

[calimary]

23. Welcome to DU, CentralMass!

Glad you're here! I couldn't agree more. contradicta and her "I don't think ANYone could - have - predicted..." and lots of "indeed" and furrowed brow that's fully exposed to suggest brains beneath. You'll never get me to believe anything other than that she was bush's backstage girl. Especially regarding that crack she made at some chi-chi Manhattan cocktail party - "as I was telling my husband - ER, UH, I mean the president..."

[nomorenomore08]

18. Football is still my favorite sport. But her as commissioner would make even me hesitate. n/t

[bullwinkle428]

6. People were saying the same about Chris Christie last winter.

[Logical]

12. yep! I said Christie would survive and was insulted! nt

[BillZBubb]

9. No way. Goodell makes the owners too much money.

He's tarnished, but he'll ride out the storm.

[hughee99]

10. Goodell doesn't make the owners money. The NFL makes the owners money.

Goodell is a replaceable cog in the machine. If keeping him would cost them a dime, they'll throw him under the bus in a heartbeat.

[JonLP24]

24. He certainly does and he makes them a lot

He has a degree in economics so he understands very well the supply & demand advantage the NFL & its franchises has over American cities, ever since he was Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer you have seen the NFL really push for new stadiums & sweetheart deals, Goodell often there using the Super Bowl extortion in places like Miami, San Diego, Atlanta, & recently Minneapolis. They have done it before but Tagliabue was a lawyer & not really his area and it was nowhere near like it is currently today. He also manages negotiations with TV networks, collective bargaining, and so many other things like the London game.

I agree they'll throw him under the bus in a heartbeat but he excels at his job which is to make the NFL as much money as possible and shaking down cities for more lucrative revenue generating amenity stadiums where taxpayers foot over half the bill of construction costs is a very huge part of the profits the NFL currently enjoys and that has Goodell's mark all over it.

On edit - whoops didn't realize until now I responded to a months old post.

[hughee99]

25. Yes, but Goodell can be replaced, the NFL's image can't be cheaply fixed.

The owners will find themselves another very good businessman to run the company before they'll risk the NFL's image to save Goodell.

[hughee99]

11. I'm not sure on your timeline, but his clock is definitely ticking.

As soon as it can be proven that he saw the Rice video months ago, the owners will drop him in an instant, which is to say that he'll resign to "spend more time with his family" or "for the good of the nfl".

BTW, congrats on getting to keep your avatar for the week. You deserve it.

[R B Garr]

13. Doubt it. Looks like they will blame everything on the "female voice" from the NFL office

who was heard on a recording a couple months ago saying that, yes, the tape was bad.

They'll blame everything on this still anonymous female. I thought the same thing yesterday when that part of the story came out regarding whether or not the NFL offices were aware of the tape or if anyone had seen it, and then this little tidbit about the "female voice" came out. A man on the Ed Show today said the same thing -- she will be the fall guy in all this.

edit: example of the stories about the female voice

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/11503851/ray-rice-videotape-sent-nfl-executive-april
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- A law enforcement official says he sent a video of Ray Rice punching his then-fiancée to an NFL executive five months ago, while league executives have insisted they didn't see the violent images until this week.

The official played The Associated Press a 12-second voicemail from an NFL office number on April 9 confirming the video arrived. A female voice expresses thanks and says: "You're right. It's terrible."

[Beausoir]

14. Not by the end of next week. But he is definitely gone.

It took...what....6 months for the NFL to get on this Rice thing?

Goodell doesn't have a leg to stand on but when you are dealing with cavemen, the wheel turns slowly.

[951-Riverside]

16. There is no way they're going to fire a White ceo over a Black employee punching his Black fiance

The NFL/NBA are extremely racist organizations owned by extremely wealthy white men who look at these players as property not people. They even use slave-esque language like "trading" when these players are moved to another team.

Given the industry ask yourself this, why would they care what he did to her when he's making them millions?

I hate to spell it out like that but there is no way, no how they're going to vote to force Goodell out ...unless there is a massive backlash against the league and people stop buying tickets, jerseys, etc but that's not going to happen. Right now they're banking on taking their property on a "redemption" tour like they did with that dog murdering scum bag Michael Vick.

OTOH if he got caught on video knocking out a white woman like that, he'd be sitting in jail right now and he would have been banned from the league for good as well as from other leagues like the AFL AND they would take every dime out of his bank account.

Just how the world works.

"Y'all git in front of them there cameras, read this here paper and tell the world that you're doing just peachy. Can't have y'all a-costin' us money." - Confederate Plantation League CEO Jebediah S. Goodell

[FSogol]

20. Let me know when the non-profit designation for the NFL is gone. n/t

[Blue_Tires]

21. I've heard he might be out by Oct. 1

The NFL is going to look like even bigger hypocrites when all the teams wear that pink bullshit to show how much they care about women's health...

[bluestateguy]

26. If so, it should be because of the Rice thing

I don't see how he should lose his job because New England was doctoring footballs.

[pkdu]

28. This OP is from Sept 2014 ! nt