Goodell maybe be wrong about a lot of things, but he is right about this.
The NFL players should have fought harder during CBA negotiations and they wouldn’t have to deal with Goodell as judge, jury and executioner.
.@NFL commissioner Roger Goodell wrote to @NFLPA today that he’ll hear Tom Brady’s appeal. “My mind is open,” he said.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) June 2, 2015
Goodell: “Protecting integrity of the game is Commish’s most important responsibility, I decline to rewrite CBA to abrogate my authority.”
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) June 2, 2015
Goodell: “Based on the unambiguous language of CBA, as well as common sense, I conclude none of the arguments advanced by @NFLPA has merit”
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) June 2, 2015
NFLPA says Goodell is a central witness. “I am not a necessary or an appropriate witness, much less a “central witness” as NFLPA contends.”
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) June 2, 2015
This is what happens when you let one person have so much power, they become almost untouchable.