League Threatening to Penalize Teams Under Conduct Policy

 
When NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell toughened the league's personal conduct policy last year, the revised policy included a provision that allows him to penalize any team with a significant number of offending players or other employees. Goodell recently told the Dallas Morning News that he intends to begin utilizing that provision by forcing a team with a player suspended without pay under the conduct policy to turn over a portion of that withheld pay...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry. [link]

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