| SaintsBro |
05-11-2012 09:51 AM |
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Originally Posted by saintfan
(Post 404861)
Could you, with a clear conscious, take hearsay and half-truths, knowingly manipulate their meanings, and then use that fabrication, carefully leaked to the media, to cost people who have otherwise done nothing to you personally or professionally millions of dollars and potentially end their careers?
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Well look at it from the other perspective. If all of that energy was targeted at a person or persons that you didn't like, who was a pain in your ass and a thorn in your side, and who was repeatedly sticking in your craw or doing things that made you look bad, and you had tried to "get" this person or persons before for other things and failed; then those half truths and hearsay and costing someone millions of dollars and destroying somebody's career, would all seem pretty appealing to you. Especially the ending-the-careers part. Problem solved.
Look. We were originally told it was this MASSIVE, organized scandal, with 27 players (!) and multiple coaches and various people involved, lasting over three entire years, and there was a massive conspiracy and coverup by individuals all throughout the Saints organization. Now, it turns out that every single person who has been fingered or punished so far for "Bountygate," they either (a) have a track record of causing previous litigation or PR problems for Goodell and the league (b) have done something that has made Goodell's office look bad or (c) is a representative of the player's union that has already done (a) and (b) repeatedly to Goodell.
You don't get to be as powerful and successful as Roger Goodell is, by having a clear conscience and by doing the right thing and by being all Ghandi. You get there by being a mother****er like Richard Nixon, and by scheming and manipulating and socking it to everybody who is your rival or enemy or who makes you look bad. Payton. Loomis. Ornstein. Williams. Smith. Vilma. Fujita and that pesky player's union. If Goodell were rid of all of these, think how his life would be much easier and less full of headaches. I'm convinced that's what this is really about.
The massive conspiratorial "bounty" program that we were told was so huge and pervasive, turned out to conveniently only involve the same people that Goodell has already tangled with in the past, for other things, or people who have said negative things about him or his policies. How very tidy and convenient. |
