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The Ray Rice Elevator Video

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

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  1. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    That was a shitshow. Complete debacle.
     
    JackReacher, Sep 19, 2014
    #1141
  2. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    He doesn't have it in him to do better than that.

    Pete Rozelle would have stood tall and answered questions and shown vulnerability and you probably would have felt bad for him. Not that it ever would have gotten to this when Rozelle was there.

    They still don't get it. Announcing that you are going to find experts so you can do it it better is not good enough now. That is bland bullshit. He needed to be way more transparent than he was, and he needed to give some level of detail about the problem in the NFL and how he is going to deal with it. The wolves are going to stay at his door. I guess his plan is to try to outlast the news cycle.

    Contrast this to the presser that Adam Silver gave during the Donald Sterling debacle. Silver actually HAD to be careful about what he said, because he was facing potential litigation. And he still said 100 times more than Goodell just did, and did it way better.
     
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    The Big Ragu, Sep 19, 2014
    #1142
  3. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Yeah, but the guys everyone is going to read for their take on this, the ones with the biggest influence on public opinion, are practically his drinking buddies, as covered ad nauseum here. By an hour from now, this will be the Gettysburg Address.
     
    Dick Whitman, Sep 19, 2014
    #1143
  4. RecoveringJournalist

    RecoveringJournalist Well-Known Member

    What did Benji ask?

    The guy is funny, but he'll never duplicate the brilliance of Stuttering John.

    Stuttering John asking Tommy Lasorda if he had to give the money back to SlimFast after he got fat again was one of the best press conference moments of all-time.
     
    RecoveringJournalist, Sep 19, 2014
    #1144
  5. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    nah, those "influential people" have been exposed as wearing pretty much no clothes.
     
    poindexter, Sep 19, 2014
    #1145
  6. Gehrig

    Gehrig Active Member

    Stealing this question from PTS. Does these last few incidents hurt the NFL' popularity/ratings?
     
    Gehrig, Sep 19, 2014
    #1146
  7. RecoveringJournalist

    RecoveringJournalist Well-Known Member

    I don't think the ratings have been hurt so far. I think it will hurt with corporate sponsorships and advertising, which is probably worse.
     
    RecoveringJournalist, Sep 19, 2014
    #1147
  8. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    To Jimmy Connors: "What did you do with the bag?"
    Connors: "What bag?"
    Stuttering John: "The bag to cover Chris Evert's face?"


    Of course Stuttering John wrote none of those. The brilliance of him was he didn't even understand what he was asking... making it entertainingly uncomfortable.
     
    poindexter, Sep 19, 2014
    #1148
  9. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    He didn't go beyone anythingtha t he should have said or done weeks ago. Why do I sense the committee will be as active as that investigating the A's move to San Jose?

    Meanwhile, first shoe on the corporate side may have dropped:
    http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26567513/procter-gamble-cancels-field-nfl-promotion
     
    HanSenSE, Sep 19, 2014
    #1149
  10. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    The Benjy interruption for those who didn't see it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QK6vRyJyLg
     
    YankeeFan, Sep 19, 2014
    #1150
  11. RecoveringJournalist

    RecoveringJournalist Well-Known Member

    That's pretty funny.
     
    RecoveringJournalist, Sep 19, 2014
    #1151
  12. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    King is going on Anderson Cooper again tonight.

    Because the last one was so informative.
     
    LongTimeListener, Sep 19, 2014
    #1152
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