08-05-2020, 11:33 AM
(08-04-2020, 11:46 PM)jason Wrote: Yep... I've liked reading your posts on how things are being handled down there.
Roger Goodell is very reactionary. This is the same guy who suspended Chris Henry for 8 games for being a self destructive knucklehead, and suspended Ray Rice 2 games knowing there was footage of him decking his wife. When that video hit the public he caved. The NFL spent the entire spring talking about opening weekend on schedule with full stadiums. Adam Silver of the NBA and Gary Bettman actually put some thought into how to finish their seasons... Rob Manfred did what baseball does... Argue about money, and fall on it's face outta the gate. Goodell and the NFL are much closer to Manfred than they are Silver or Bettman.
Mate, that is quite interesting. Up until last year we had a guy running Rugby League down here that was very much the same, decisions were based on how they played out in the media, was very reactionary, we had inconsistent punishments for players who got in trouble of the field, to the point he wrote a reference for a players court case for DUI. We have a new guy running the game down here now who actually has the guts to make decisions. He predicted the game would be up and running again by June 28th, everyone laughed at him at the time and then he just pushed it through, but the measures in place, restructure tv deals, and had the government doing what he wants, including allowing players in from overseas and teams traveling over closed state borders. It's amazing what a good strong leader can do, he has even rid our game of a couple onfield issues that were really hurting our game. He did such a good job getting Rugby League going again the other sports were able to follow him. We now have a state that is in complete lockdown and the sport that is primarily based in that state made a decision with a weeks notice to move the entire competition to another state in a bubble. These things can be done but they need to be preplanned for each possible scenario.
A little off topic but just trying to say that it takes strong leadership to get a sport up running and to keep running in this pandemic, I am yet to see that leadership from the NFL.
