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The Ray Rice Elevator Video

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by YankeeFan, Sep 8, 2014.

  1. Oggiedoggie

    Oggiedoggie Well-Known Member

    This incident is only one of the examples of administrative failure that keeps the NFL from making a profit.
     
  2. da man

    da man Well-Known Member

    Hey, my kid's an economics major and she's working her butt off!
     
  3. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    I don't mean to impugn the economics degree. No doubt it was tons harder to get than my J-school piece of paper. My only intention was to impugn Roger Goodell.

    Also FWIW I'd wager that the econ degree in the late '70s/early '80s was not nearly as difficult to achieve simply because data analysis did not exist. I'm going to guess that Roger's "economics background" did not lead him to embrace Freakonomics and the other new forms of study in the discipline as he aged.
     
  4. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Not going back to the what "she" may have done well, more to well of what "they" were doing to each other.

    No shit, hondo. He'll have to suffer the shame from the court of public opinion (minus Raven fans) for the rest of his life.
     
  5. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    I'm sure he did have reason to be angry. I'm sure she had reason to be angry, too. They were engaged in a knock-down, drag-out argument that young couples tend to get into.

    What would "absolve" him, then, of taking it to the level he did?
     
  6. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    my economics degree in 1983 consisted of econometrics the hardest math I ever took. It also included computer modeling using regression analysis, also difficult. My degree is the BArts variety, the BScience degree was more math intensive. Given the state of computers at the time, it was harder then because you had to create or reproduce programs for the computer. Now it's all there for undergrads.
     
  7. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    All right, my bad there too.

    Again I return to, I am going to guess Roger Goodell was not pursuing that path as arduously as y'all.
     
  8. RecoveringJournalist

    RecoveringJournalist Well-Known Member

    To the level that he did? Nothing... If she full on attacked him (I don't think she did at all...) and he pushed her or shook her, I think people might feel some level of sympathy or if he swatted her away, not that that's OK, but I think people might feel differently than they do today.

    But punching her the way he did and then his indifference and dragging her off the elevator. There's no defense for any of that.
     
  9. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    I see what you did there.

    One other thing. Goodell made $44 million last year. Assuming he makes a similar amount this year, he's making roughly $800K a week. That is enough right there for him to not resign right away. If this "independent" report takes a couple of months, well, that's another few million in his pocket before the owners boot him out. Plus, of course, he'll want to give notice, so there's another $1.6 million and I'm sure he'll get a nice golden parachute when he walks out the door as well.
     
  10. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    He isn't leaving. Once it passed the Thursday crescendo, it's over. Nobody in the world is better at letting the air out of the ball than the NFL.
     
  11. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    The owners are not going to boot him out. Not now. Not after the "investigation" the league is conducting.
     
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