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Goodell Explains Why the NFL Destroyed Evidence, Specter Probably Doesn't Care
FanHouse —
Filed under: NFL Fans, Super Bowl Senator Arlen Specter has impeccable timing. Apparently, today was as good a day as any to announce that he would haul NFL commissioner Roger Goodell in front of the Judiciary Committee to explain why the league destroyed all the evidence related to Patriotgate. The New York Times broke the story hours before Goodell was to give his State of the NFL speech. Unsurprisingly, many of the questions were about his newly scheduled trip to Washington, D.C. And although I think the practice of destroying ...
Roger Goodell Thinks Resting Players Is For Pussies
Bucstats.com —
Commissioner Roger Goodell made his annual "State of the NFL" address last week, most of which I found shallow and pedantic. But one interesting thing that he said was that he was considering re-tooling the playoff seeding rules to give more weight to regular season records. This bit is taken from the Buccaneers web site.
"You qualify if you win your division, then you have the two wild-card teams. I think what we'd like to look at is if a wild-card team has a record better than a division winner, should that give the advantage to the wild-card team that has the better record? That will probably be our short-term ...
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Goodell: Six tapes, notes destroyed after Spygate
myespn.go.com 2/1/2008 — Posted by ESPN.com's Mike Sando Commissioner Roger Goodell said the NFL destroyed six tapes in the Spygate investigation. Some were from the 2007 exhibition season. Some were from late in the 2006 season, he said. The league also collected notes ...
Goodell dodges Specter, Comcast link
myespn.go.com 2/1/2008 — Posted by ESPN.com's Mike Sando Roger Goodell, responding to a question about the NFL's troubles in getting its network placed on broader cable tiers, declined to say whether Sen. Arlen Specter's ties to Comcast might be linked to his comments in ...
