Roger Goodell: The Hypocrite

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Published: October 12, 2009

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... of cleaning the league's image up. Yet, even with that there's one thing that keeps him from having done a great job, and that is the hypocrisy of Goodell.

When he became the commissioner of the NFL, he set in place a stronger personal policy for the NFL players. These policies allowed for the NFL to discipline individuals even before the incident in question would go to court. Since that policy was put into place, Goodell has suspended Pac-Man Jones for a year in 2007, eight games for Chris Henry in 2007, and Marshawn Lynch for the first three games of the 2009 season.

Jones' and Henry's suspensons were for multiple arrests, and neither Jones or Henry had been convicted for any of them.

Yet, what's interesting, is the fact that Ben Roethlisberger had been accused of raping a woman in Las Vegas during a celebrity golf tournament. Was there any punishment for Roethlisberger? Nope.

I'm not saying that suspending Roethlisberger after those claims was right o...

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