Posted on 09/22/2014 12:20:28 PM PDT by Dave346
Just a couple things since you brought up football. A couple things about the NFL. You know, Goodell had his press conference on Friday, and do you know what we learned, by the way? We learned that the sports Drive-Bys know how to conduct a press conference. The news guys have forgotten how, since Obama became president. The sports guys know how to do it.
The sports guys want Goodell's scalp. I'm telling you, it's amazing. I have been listening to some of these sports guys. I have been reading some of these sports Drive-Bys. Even some of the former players. They want this guy canned. They want Goodell gone. It is amazing to hear. It is so knee-jerk. Some of it's filled with literal hatred for the guy, and they are not gonna stop until they get the guy gone.
I don't think he's gonna go anywhere. The league is making too much money. Anyway, I'll get into the details of that in a second, but they did a press conference on Friday. The way press conferences of presidents used to be. Here's a guy in authority, in power, and these sports Drive-Bys hit him with every hypocritical thing he's said. They hit him with everything they think is a lie.
They tried to trip him up every which way from Sunday, and it was not a good performance for Goodell. I'm watching this and I said, "You know, we haven't seen one of these since George W. Bush was president." Well, we haven't. We have forgotten what a genuine media press conference, White House press conference used to look like. Now they are just fawning, bootlicking sessions.
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The sports talk crowd became born again.
One day they celebrate Ray Lewis and Ray Rice. The next day they try to outdo each other with outrage of Roger Goodell.
Black men behaving badly, so we should fire the white guy.
because it’s always the fault of “da man”
If I was making $40+ million a year! I wouldn’t go down easily. Goodall will probably fight this tooth and nail.
I find it impossible to cheer the selective outrage of the ESPN wing of the Ministry of Truth even if everyone involved in this fiasco is human garbage and deserves it.
Because they are every bit as much human garbage.
Yep it’s really crazy. Meanwhile no one focuses on the female NJ prosecutor and the judge who let Ray Rice off Scot Free.
Goodell went down on both knees and apologized repeatedly at his news conference, and the sport talk guys in my town go on about it being a “disaster” and he must resign.
I think the libs want to raid the NFL’s money and then destroy the sport. I frankly do not see what the NFL has to do with Ray Rice punching his wife on an elevator.
I am not a Ravens or Ray Rice Fan but I have a few politically inconvenient points:
1. I don’t see how this incident was an example of “domestic abuse”. Drunken fight on elevator, wife spits on husband, comes at him, athlete husband (excessively) delivers one quick punch which knocks her out.
Is that the new “domestic abuse”? Far as I know DA was always some angry husband beating up on his wife on a regular basis. Not one quick fight.
2. The video should only have helped Ray Rice. We already knew he knocked her out. The video shows her come at him, he delivers a single quick reflexive punch. Might well have been illegal, but we knew that already. he did not attack or beat on her.
3. The real “villain” here after Ray Rice is the prosecutor who quickly let him off the hook.
4. They quickly buried the wife’s anguished plea that her life is being destroyed by firing him from a lucrative career.
5. Who ever said it is good to fire “domestic abusers” so that their family suffers financially, and they are left at home with time on their hands?
Sadly, the sports media is still the media. The are irredeemably leftist including that burbling clown Chris "Boomer" Berman on ESPN. They all would like to cross over to hard news and are trying desperately to draw attention to themselves with this non-issue.
Sure, I watch some sports, but won't watch Sportscenter or any other sport news as I have many better things to do.
This is all about the election in November. The democrats are going all in on the “war on women” meme.
When you see Robert Muller’s name pop up, you know that the whitewash/fix is in.
Do you see the video? Good grief. Rice used grossly excessive force toward a 110-pound woman stumbling toward him. He knocked her out with even smidgen of remorse, which indicates to me this is the first time he has hit a woman.
All the being said, it's the state of NJ that should be condemned for giving Rice a slap on the wrist, not the NFL. The NFL ended up getting his punishment correct.
I would. I would take my gains and move to a ranch somewhere and live the good life.
I agree 100%.
All sports radio guys are parroting their marching orders. Nothing has to do with sports on the radio anymore. Just liberal anti-football (aka masculine society) talking points over and over again.
When someone calls them out for “when are you guys going to talk about sports” they say “WE’D LOVE TO TALK ABOUT IT, BUT WE HAVE TO DISCUSS THIS! IT IS TOO IMPORTANT. PEOPLE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT IT.”
Actually , in reality, no listeners or sports fans want to talk about it. We want to talk about sports. The people who want to talk about it aren’t sports fans, and surely don’t listen to your shows. The ONLY ones demanding it be talked about are YOU, THE HOSTS, yourselves.
I haven’t been able to turn on the two local choices (WFAN or ESPN) since this whole thing occurred. Sirius NFL radio is the only alternative. Also, as soon as it dies down, they keep ginning up more BS to keep the story alive. The guy from the Panthers, Peterson, now Dwyer in Arizona... then the “revelation that this NFL guy knew about RR, and then this person knew about the video....” Then it is another 5 freaking days parroting the same bs about the next little bitty thing.
I’m sure their audience must be down quite considerably. If I know men, most of the people who are listening to this want analysis on the games played and upcoming games. Not this PC Democratic party anti-sports and anti-man crap. If people want that they can get it plenty elsewhere in the MSM.
The hosts are little girl men of the first degree.
The prosecutor was very outspoken in the fact his hands were tied by the law. He could not get Rice any jail time based on the statutes as they exist.
We have enough people ignoring or re-writing the laws already, we don’t need more.
Agree with your last comment.
As to the punch, he knocked her out, I knew that before I saw it. I don’t know how much “remorse” you expected to see in the video of him punching her.
Having seen him dragging her lifeless body out of the elevator, did you think it would show him blowing her a kiss?
HE committed a crime. However, he did NOT threaten her as she cowered in the corner. He did not repeatedly strike her. He was not shoving her around. Far as I could tell he wasn’t verbally harassing her.
That is why I said the video eliminated many worse things that could have been happening in that elevator. But everyone is in a feeding frenzy. We already knew that a powerful football player should not have struck and knocked his girlfriend unconscious.
That is BS, the prosecutor absolutely could have charged him, and any deal could have waited for further investigation and negotiation. This was a violent crime and he was not entitled to a no charge diversion program.
I’ve been involved in much less egregious cases and the prosecutors are pit bulls in getting the woman to prosecute, and the judges treat the man as guilty on arrival, and that is in cases with no video and just based on an initial he said she said.
There is no obligation to immediately let a man off the hook when he is brought in for violently striking a woman. Quite the opposite.
Well, since I don’t live in Jersey I cannot answer to the prosecutor’s actions only what he has said in more than one interview.
Here's what I'd expect if he had just lost this temper and knocked her out -- him showing some a sense of panic, kneeling over her, saying he was sorry and trying to revive her. That would be the reaction of someone that had lost control and regretted his actions.
Showing no reaction at all tells me Rice is serial abuser and someone with little, if any, conscience.
If true, feminist groups should be trying to change the law in NJ rather than attacking Goodell.
And, yes, the law is woeful inadequate if that is true. What Rice should result in mandatory prison time.
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