Goodell lives the high life
March 25, 2009 by James Edwards
Filed under Sports
NFL Football at its best. NFL Football at its craziest.
Commissioner Roger Goodell stayed at an expensive Hotel to hold the league meetings. This came in the wake of job cuts by the NFL.
Goodell took a pay cut of 20-25% off his $11 million salary, but the league still cut 169 jobs recently. Several teams have laid off employees and the New York Jets have imposed two-week unpaid furloughs on their business-side employees.
And while Goodell argued on Monday that the NFL is losing revenue because of the recession, lavish spending for free-agent players and the conference at the St. Regis …read more
Cheerleaders, Patriots – Spygate, what is new
May 14, 2008 by James Edwards
Filed under Sports
NFL Football at its best. NFL Football at its craziest.
San Diego Cheerleader
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It is out.
A complete scandal.
The new information is worse than before.
The punishment? A few giggles, maybe a whoo hoo.
Matt Walsh met with the commissioner and this is what they found.
The most scandalous part of the tapes shown before Goodell’s news conference had nothing to do with stealing signals — it was several minutes of close-ups of San Diego Chargers cheerleaders performing during a 2002 game.
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Oh yeah, now you wish you had the tapes, don’t you.
Now we know what …read more
San Francisco fined for calling Lance Briggs agent
March 24, 2008 by James Edwards
Filed under Sports
NFL Football at its best. NFL Football at its craziest.
The 49ers got a little too eager last year and paid for it.
The San Francisco 49ers forfeited their fifth-round pick in next month’s NFL draft after commissioner Roger Goodell said they tampered with Chicago linebacker Lance Briggs.
In a statement released by the league Monday, Goodell also said the teams will switch picks in the third round of the April 26-27 draft. Chicago, which had the 12th pick, will get San Francisco’s seventh pick and the 49ers will get Chicago’s choice.
Goodell said the 49ers violated the NFL’s anti-tampering policy by contacting Briggs’ …read more




