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(09-17-2018, 06:16 PM)StrictlyBiz Wrote: Your memory is selective. 

Long before Burfict was the NFLs whipping boy it was James Harrison, who at one point received 4 "random" piss tests over a 7 month period, and $175,000 in fines in one season. He was also suspended one game the next year.

https://steelerswire.usatoday.com/2016/08/18/james-harrison-roger-goodell-fines-history-suspension-al-jazeera-peds-timeline-everything/

Goodell also suspended Ben Roethlisberger 6 games based on an accusation. BR was never arrested or charged. Unprecedented. His punishment was way more severe than Ray Rice who was caught on video smacking his ***** up. Also way more severe than Ms Pac Mac when he was caught on video ***** slapping a woman at a bar (no fine, no suspension) after his posse shot up a strip club.

Also the Steelers were the ONLY team vote against the current CBA because it gave Goodell too much power. 

Plenty of evidence that there isn't a love fest between Rooney and Rog. 

Meh, Harrison called him out publicly.....of course he was gonna draw the ire of Rog.

Selective?

"Goodell’s election to succeed Paul Tagliabue, who is retiring after nearly 17 years, completes a remarkable 24-year rise from intern at the league office, Goodell’s first football job, and turns the league over to a new generation of leadership. When Dan Rooney, the Steelers’ owner and co-chairman of the league’s selection committee, went to the hotel room to tell Goodell, 47, that he had been chosen, Goodell embraced the 74-year-old Rooney.

In a speech to the owners in support of Goodell’s candidacy, Rooney had said that he was looking for the best commissioner and he had no doubt it was Goodell."


“I don’t think there are any figures more important than Dan Rooney over the years,” NFL commissioner Roger Goodell told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Friday from his family vacation in Europe. “His influence on the game, which of course is reflected in his Hall of Fame election, but he stands tall among all of them. His influence in taking on very difficult challenges, especially during difficult periods in labor relations; he was a trusted and an important figure during that time.”



“I can’t think of anyone I was closer to in the NFL, by far,” Goodell said. “I just admired him on every single level.

“He was a friend, a mentor, almost a father-like figure for so many years, well before I became commissioner. We would speak almost every day about the league, about different issues, the history of the game, the importance of things, what made the league successful.
“I never really thought about it at the time, but he was really preparing me, preparing me to help make decisions, on the knowledge of the league. He was not only historical in a sense of what he knew and what he had been through, but what was important being successful going forward.”





I mean.....he never hugged Mikey