In a week marked by elections, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s chances of winning an election to become forever known as the worst sports commissioner in history received a boost on Thursday.
In week eight of the NFL season, many star players came forward to complain about the way officials did their job. Consistent with a pattern of rapid escalation, week nine began with an NFL star telling the commissioner he has no clue either.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell couldn’t have made his stance on paying players to intentionally injure other players any more clear than after he slammed the New Orleans Saints for their bounty program. He handed down a punishment so severe, and evidence-challenged, that former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue stepped in and overturned four of Goodell’s player suspensions.
When the Bountygate scandal involving the New Orleans Saints broke, after their 2009 NFC Championship Game against the Minnesota Vikings, several former players at the time stepped forward to say that they too had played for teams that also had cash payouts for injuring opponents.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell unveiled a new talking point in response to public scrutiny over the league’s handling of Josh Brown’s domestic violence case. The theory goes something like this: the public doesn’t possess the knowledge to understand our brilliance.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell finds himself in an impossible spot.
The San Francisco Police Officers Association (SFPOA) sent a letter objecting to Colin Kaepernick’s verbal attacks on police to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York calling on the pair to “denounce his foolish statements.”
Tom Brady announced via social media that he does not plan to appeal the decision upholding his four-game suspension to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected a Tom Brady attempt to reverse a decision by a three-judge panel siding with the NFL.
The NFL reported on Tuesday that its Twitter account had been hacked after a tweet went live telling fans that league Commissioner Roger Goodell had died.
The AFL-CIO filed an amicus curiae brief on Tuesday supporting Tom Brady’s lawsuit against the NFL.
Engineers and physicists at MIT, Penn, Stanford, Michigan, Berkeley, and several other campuses filed an amicus curiae brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in support of Tom Brady’s case against the NFL.
So are the Oakland Raiders moving to Las Vegas? There is a very good chance, according to Raiders owner Mark Davis.
The New England Patriots filed an amicus curiae brief supporting its quarterback’s legal effort to overturn his four-game NFL suspension in federal court.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell criticized Congressman Frank Pallone (D-NJ) for issuing a report critical of unpaid NFL medical advisors without bothering to contact those doctors.
A report by congressional Democrats charging the NFL with tampering in the granting procedures of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has collapsed after revelations that nearly half of the NFL money already allocated by the federal agency went to the group the league supposedly sought to blackball.
On Tuesday, the NFL held a one day owner’s meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Commissioner Roger Goodell answered a question by a local reporter about holding the conference in a state that doesn’t allow transgendered individuals to use the bathroom of their choice in public buildings.
Tom Brady’s hard-hitting appeal of a federal court’s decision upholding his Deflategate suspension labels Roger Goodell’s punishment of him “biased, agenda-driven, and self-approving.”
Tom Brady files an appeal in the Deflategate case today, and the gridiron winner does so adding a courtroom winner as a teammate.
On the Friday ESPN Radio broadcast of “Mike and Mike,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said the league will be working to “get the right policies and the right laws in place” in North Carolina in response to the state’s “bathroom
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell appeared on the Thursday broadcast of “CBS This Morning” to discuss the four-game suspension of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. Goodell called the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to reinstate Brady’s suspension the “right
From the investigator touting as truth the opposite of the testimony of the AFC Championship Game referee on the matter most salient to Deflategate to the league admitting ignorance of the Ideal Gas Law to Roger Goodell hearing the appeal
Two judges ruled that the “minimum legal standards,” not “perfection,” dictated the NFL’s disciplinary response to Deflategate. A third judge, the chief justice of the 2nd Court of Appeals, labeled Roger Goodell’s process in meting out a four-game suspension to Tom Brady as arbitrary.
State legislators from across America are fighting back against the LGBT agenda and their activist’s retaliation against states over religious liberty legislation. Forty Texas state legislators joined with over one-hundred legislators nationally in writing to business leaders who are threatening action against states who have passed such bills.
So what is the NFL’s official position on the link between football-related head trauma and the brain disease CTE?
The NFL’s individualistic coach no longer stands alone.
The Deflategate controversy resurfaced yesterday when three Judges from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan fired rigorously on an NFL Players Association attorney, with one claiming that ball tampering by Tom Brady of the New England Patriots “was compelling, if not overwhelming.”
A PPP survey of NFL fans indicates that Roger Goodell remains tremendously unpopular.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell wants to burnish the image of his league by embracing feminism; promising an expansion of the 2003 “Rooney Rule” that required teams to consider minorities in their executive hiring to now include women.
The National Football League adds NBC as a broadcast partner for Thursday Night Football in 2016 and 2017. The network joins CBS and the NFL Network in airing the games.
The 32 NFL team owners completed a first round of voting on Tuesday in Houston, with the result thus far favoring a Rams and possibly either the Raiders or Chargers moving into a new Los Angeles stadium in Inglewood.
Hillary Clinton aides called upon NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and former Republican Senate Leader Bill Frist for media messaging advice after the then secretary of state sustained a concussion from a fall she took in December 2012.
Vikings running back Adrian Peterson opened up about his ordeal regarding his 2014 suspension and child-abuse case. Peterson says NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was no help at all during his troubles and in fact didn’t even understand what he was going through.
“Tell the truth,” a frustrated Will Smith repeats in ‘Concussion.’ If only the makers of the film followed that sound advice.
An NYU law professor known for his advocacy of the death penalty filed an amicus curiae brief in the NFL v. Tom Brady appeal.
Attorneys for Tom Brady and the NFL Players Association, filed a response to the NFL’s appeal of Judge Richard Berman’s decision in favor of the New England Patriots quarterback in the Deflategate case.
The National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) sent a letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell asking that the league lift its ban on armed off-duty officers in light of the threat of terror attacks against crowded venues, a threat actualized most recently in Paris.
In a fawning interview Bill Simmons conducted with Barack Obama for GQ, the president lets readers know the inside-baseball secrets of his sports-minded mind, including his desire to own an NBA franchise, his belief that he and Aaron Rodgers share a kindred unflappability, and his disbelief that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell makes $44 million a year.
Wednesday marks the second of three town-hall-style NFL hearings–St. Louis, San Diego, then Oakland–being held this week to determine which (if any) of three football teams–the Rams, Chargers or Raiders, respectively–will move to the Los Angeles, California market.
The New England Patriots, the NFL’s premier football team, remain undefeated after a Sunday afternoon victory over the New York Jets.
