How could this have taken so long? This is the first time that ACTUAL PROOF has been required. Before this point, Goodell could have been holding a folder with ten copies of his favorite Spider-Man comic books inside that he was calling "evidence."

I wonder what the reasoning is behind continuing to keep them secret. Goodell already threw Jimmy Kennedy under the bus, and according to Kennedy just flat out made things up. Roger can't expect anybody to believe he's still worried about protecting his source. It looks like he doesn't give a damn about his source.

All the press releases and public statements will definately come back into play if/when this hits a courtroom.

Exactly, 100%, and that is at the heart of Vilma's defamation suit. The press releases and statements in interviews, the time line of what Goodell said and when he made those statements, in relation to the evidence, and when the evidence was made public, that is truly the heart of Vilma's case. The beauty of it is that evidence MUST BE SHOWN in its entirety, in order to determine whether Goodell was defaming Vilma or not.

Its systemic, and if the NFL didn't do at least a 1/2 arsed investigation on the other 31 teams it opened it self up wide open to to a discrimination suit.