The Ray Rice Elevator Video

YankeeFan · Sep 10, 2014

I'm not ready or willing to predict Condi Rice gets the job.

But, it would be interesting. Finding someone the owners trust, who has not been groomed for the job will be extremely hard.

Each commissioner was basically the obvious heir apparent. Even former NHL commissioner came over from the NBA.

I could even soo them doing something like a Bud Selig move. Maybe someone like Steve Tisch takes over on a "temporary" basis.

DrewJo · Sep 10, 2014

TMZ tosses some more fuel on the fire, because why not?

http://www.tmz.com/2014/09/10/roger-goodell-video-casino-ray-rice/

LongTimeListener · Sep 10, 2014

For next, I say they go from the corporate world -- after all, added up they're a conglomerate to rival Apple -- and maybe they go with a woman.

Carly Fiorina (ex-HP) or Carol Bartz (ex-Yahoo)? Or maybe Darla Moore, the Wall Street biggie and one of the first two women (Condi being the other) to become a member at Augusta National?

Or they could go Chelsea Clinton. She's available.

YankeeFan · Sep 10, 2014

For OOP, here's Jonathan Capehart in the WaPo:

Condoleezza Rice made a startling admission to the New York Times in 2002. The then-national security adviser to President George W. Bush said it was “absolutely right” that she wanted to be commissioner of the National Football League. This was no joke. Rice was serious, but she wanted it to be known that she wouldn’t want to do it “before Paul Tagliabue is ready to step down.”

Well, Tagliabue is long gone and his successor Roger Goodell has made a mess of it. Time for the former secretary of state with an intense love of the game to step in and save the NFL.

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Confidence in Goodell’s leadership ought to be in tatters, too. Fans, particularly female fans and the wives and girlfriends of fans, should be appalled by everything he did and didn’t do in the Rice matter. If Bruce Levenson feels compelled to sell his stake in the Atlanta Hawks basketball team because of a few racial observations in a two-year-old e-mail certainly Goodell should find his way to the exit.

Rice really loves football, especially because of its similarities to military strategy. “I really consider myself a student of the game,” Rice told the Times in that 2002 interview. “I find the strategy and tactics absolutely fascinating.” And in talking about why she coveted the gridiron gig, the foreign policy expert who served two presidents and was provost of Stanford University said, “I think it would be a very interesting job because I actually think football, with all due respect to baseball, is a kind of national pastime that brings people together across social lines, across racial lines. And I think it’s an important American institution.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/09/08/condi-rice-the-one-person-who-could-save-the-nfl/
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Ben_Hecht · Sep 10, 2014

YankeeFan said:

For OOP, here's Jonathan Capehart in the WaPo:

Condoleezza Rice made a startling admission to the New York Times in 2002. The then-national security adviser to President George W. Bush said it was “absolutely right” that she wanted to be commissioner of the National Football League. This was no joke. Rice was serious, but she wanted it to be known that she wouldn’t want to do it “before Paul Tagliabue is ready to step down.”

Well, Tagliabue is long gone and his successor Roger Goodell has made a mess of it. Time for the former secretary of state with an intense love of the game to step in and save the NFL.

...

Confidence in Goodell’s leadership ought to be in tatters, too. Fans, particularly female fans and the wives and girlfriends of fans, should be appalled by everything he did and didn’t do in the Rice matter. If Bruce Levenson feels compelled to sell his stake in the Atlanta Hawks basketball team because of a few racial observations in a two-year-old e-mail certainly Goodell should find his way to the exit.

Rice really loves football, especially because of its similarities to military strategy. “I really consider myself a student of the game,” Rice told the Times in that 2002 interview. “I find the strategy and tactics absolutely fascinating.” And in talking about why she coveted the gridiron gig, the foreign policy expert who served two presidents and was provost of Stanford University said, “I think it would be a very interesting job because I actually think football, with all due respect to baseball, is a kind of national pastime that brings people together across social lines, across racial lines. And I think it’s an important American institution.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/09/08/condi-rice-the-one-person-who-could-save-the-nfl/
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Given the reparations her handmaiden history owes the country, we'll pass.

poindexter · Sep 10, 2014

DrewJo said:

TMZ tosses some more fuel on the fire, because why not?

http://www.tmz.com/2014/09/10/roger-goodell-video-casino-ray-rice/
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You know how you know that piece wasn't written by one of the league's regular reporters (Mort, Schef, PK, et al)?

BECAUSE THERE'S A FUCKING NAME ATTACHED TO A QUOTE.

Neutral Corner · Sep 10, 2014

LongTimeListener said:

Or they could go Chelsea Clinton. She's available.
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Well played.

YankeeFan · Sep 10, 2014

LongTimeListener said:

For next, I say they go from the corporate world -- after all, added up they're a conglomerate to rival Apple -- and maybe they go with a woman.

Carly Fiorina (ex-HP)...
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I could see Fiorina, or even someone like Meg Whitman. The key will be personal contacts. Who among the owners knows them, and can vouch for them.

If this goes down, they're going to have to act fast, and no league has had to hire a commissioner fast in a long time.

The NFL is reeling, and needs to stabilize things quickly. I liken it to when Warren Buffett stepped in to serve as Chairman of Salomon Brothers, which saved them at the time, and kept the stock market from crashing.

Who has the gravitas to do that, and has the owner's trust?

Chef2 · Sep 10, 2014

Roger has to be saying "Get me the fuck out of here. I have turned the NFL into a bumbling circus. I got a couple hundred mill in the bank. Adios, whores."

The Big Ragu · Sep 10, 2014

Goodell is a micromanager. If the league did a thorough investigation, there isn't a chance he didn't see that tape. He is on top of EVERY aspect of every one of these investigations.

I suspect Goodell really didn't see the tape -- even though, apparently everyone and their uncle saw the it. He was probably told, through a grapevine, "You don't want to see this tape." So he turned a blind eye, and purposely never let it get anywhere near him -- miscalculating he could then minimize the incident and get away with the 2-game suspension.

The only thing I can think of is that the law enforcement source from the AP really sent the tape to someone in the league office -- on his own. And as a result, the whole "plausible deniability" thing Goodell was counting on with that letter he wrote to the owner has now blown up in his face.

He has mismanaged this thing beyond belief.

outofplace · Sep 10, 2014

The Big Ragu said:

Goodell is a micromanager. If the league did a thorough investigation, there isn't a chance he didn't see that tape. He is on top of EVERY aspect of every one of these investigations.

I suspect Goodell really didn't see the tape -- even though, apparently everyone and their uncle saw the it. He was probably told, through a grapevine, "You don't want to see this tape." So he turned a blind eye, and purposely never let it get anywhere near him -- miscalculating he could then minimize the incident and get away with the 2-game suspension.

The only thing I can think of is that the law enforcement source from the AP really sent the tape to someone in the league office -- on his own. And as a result, the whole "plausible deniability" thing Goodell was counting on with that letter he wrote to the owner has now blown up in his face.

He has mismanaged this thing beyond belief.
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Wow. That was short by your standards.

Seriously, though, that scenario you suggest makes a lot of sense. And there is no doubt Goodell botched this thing badly.

Starman · Sep 10, 2014

LongTimeListener said:

For next, I say they go from the corporate world -- after all, added up they're a conglomerate to rival Apple -- and maybe they go with a woman.

Carly Fiorina (ex-HP) or Carol Bartz (ex-Yahoo)? Or maybe Darla Moore, the Wall Street biggie and one of the first two women (Condi being the other) to become a member at Augusta National?

Or they could go Chelsea Clinton. She's available.
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Chelsea Clinton and Carly Fiorina are about equally qualified. They've served as CEOs for the same number of profitable viable companies. If the NFL is looking to reduce roster sizes to 26 players, cut the schedule to 10 games, and contract 20 franchises, Fiorina is right up their alley.

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