If the NFL doesn't stop Pu$$yfooting around things like tripping players and overlooking Spygate which stole super-bowls from other teams, things like this video clip from the Gator Bowl in 1978 will be common place (I am an old fella, I remember seeing this live.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEVJyf0ft3I
The NFL's official statement would probably sound like this. "We regret that the coaches fist became tangled in the players face but we will not investigate this further". If the NFL gets anymore corrupt the FBI will start a file on them, and it would be long overdue. Where is J. Edgar Hoover when you need him?
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while it's a fun memory, in no way-shape-or form will the NFL ever reach that level. Overall, Goodell is running a pretty good ship, IMO. He's also a businessman and knows what battles are worth fighting. Tripgate is now over, the scumbag is on his way to being fired. that's punishment enough, why should Goodell do more?
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I heard Wikileaks is about to release 10,000 cables from the Jets organization...
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People need to understand that this wasn't just one scumbag coach. If you watch the video the two Jet players intentionally forced Carroll out of bounds and into the line of coaches oddly positioned in the right place at the right time. This was nothing more than a premeditated conspiracy against a singular player. Spygate was nothing short of corporate fraud, and Tripgate was nothing short of conspiracy to injure a player. Both incidents were orchestrated in full knowledge of illegality involving more than one person, that is the virtual definition of legal conspiracy within and between multi-billion dollar organizations.
Goddell is a jerk who did nothing to prosceute the members within spygate and now the BS is right in your face, and nothing is being done about it. ".... why should Goodell do more?" Because he couldn't do less. He is worthless. He is so preoccupied trying to make football global he forgot about honest sportsmanship. Anyone who could dismiss this as just one coach didn't watch the film. The whole team was in one it. -
its hard to watch sometimes.
i HATE when officials get it wrong. yet a building of 80,000 people, and potentially millions more, watching on television, can all see clear as day that the wrong call was made but everything goes on with the game changing results that shouldnt be there.
i wonder if we will ever see the day when the correct call is top priority, in all cases.cobrajet likes this. -
That would be nice, but I wouldn't look for that day. I think that is just part of the human element of the game as frustrating as it is. However, after the fact when all the evidence is in full view the Commish of the NFL should get involved when there is evidence that the whole team was in on it. (.........and they were)