Frank D'Amico files lawsuit against Goodell
 

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Lawyer Frank D'Amico Jr. wants Goodell to enforce Rule 17, Section 2, Article 1 in the NFL Rulebook that he says "could, in the right circumstances, allow the commissioner to take extreme action in the face of a grossly unfair result."

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Many experts have said that it's highly unlikely the NFL or Goodell will do anything to change the outcome of Sunday's NFC championship game, which saw the Rams going to the Super Bowl. However, the controversial no-call could lead to changes next season.

NFL Rule 17 has been brought up because fans believe it would allow Goodell to reschedule or even reverse the results of a game for an "extraordinarily unfair" act.

Sources:

https://www.wdsu.com/article/new-orl...988043?src=app

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...le-17-do-over/

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Waiting for Roger Goodell to do the right thing

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Class Action lawsuit!!!

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Screw Roger Godhell!!! Sue the bastard!!! :argue:

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It's a bad look.

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Bad look? Nahhhh, a bad look is the c0cksuck3r in the OP calling Sean Payton to apologize but never publicly apologizing to the New Orleans Saints fan-base. A bad look is openly admitting that you know something was wrong and having the power to make it right but sitting on your d1ckbeaters. A bad look is slamming a team for a 'safety issue' then allowing a no-call on a 'safety issue'.. There are a lot of bad looks about this, I dont see filing suit as one of them.

I am tired of my team being the leagues abuse doll.

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Right.

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Hey look, I think those are bad looks too. But cmon man, your telling me those bad calls don't go our way sometimes? Those bad calls work for and against everyone at some point.

So, yeah, Frank D'Amico filing a lawsuit for public gain is a bad look for me. And also, I was brought up to believe that you don't counter a "bad look" with another one. Take the high road and leave that for the bottom feeders.

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I agree completely that taking the high road is always the best approach........
except when some one does something as agrigeous as stealing a Super Bowl appearance from you. Then you’re justified in kicking them in the nuts...hard enough so that they never do it to you again. Hard enough so they never think of doing it again, ever. Hard enough so that sexual reassignment surgery crosses their mind.

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I get your frustrations. I guess we'll just agree to disagree. I'm so freaking pissed but to me, lashing out only makes it worse.

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Let me be clear... I am not asking for damages. I am not asking for anything above and beyond. The leagues bylaws have a clause just for this situation and we are not talking about a holding or off-sides call. This was a defenseless receiver, pass interference, and helmet to helmet...

Forcing Goddell to use the powers granted him is hardly a low road expectation.


I am willing to bet good money they didn't call the penalties just to force the game into overtime so the league could have higher ratings and more exciting games. Well they f5cked up.

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I agree with every word of this. When your enemy only ever fights dirty, you fight them at their level. The high road doesn't work under these sort of circumstances.

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Um, so, the low road does? Negative.

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I've already signed the petition that's out there, calling for Goodell to use his authority to either go back to the point where the foul occurred, or replay the whole game.

I don't really care if it were the Saints or any other team. What happened is ridiculous. Do I expect Goodell will do anything? Of course not. But you have to put pressure on the league if you want any positives changes to be made, if not now, then in the future.

The only way to make the league do ANYTHING, is to get enough people demanding change, and also making their wallets hurt. Everyone has the right to be angry about what happened, but as far as effectiveness, anger is useless. You have to take tangible steps.

Screw all the talk about being "petty" to make Goodell use a rule that he HAS the power to use. If the rule exists to be able to correct an incredible injustice, not just some bang-bang play, then what better time to use it than now?

If you are someone reading this, right now, and you think it's pointless or petty, let me ask you a simple question: Why? The rule exists for a reason, no? So use it.

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It's a waste of time to take the NFL to court over the outcomes of games. It's already been ruled in court that the NFL has no obligation to provide a fair outcome to a contest.

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Playoffs... Playoffs...?
You thought you'd beat the :censored: refs in the Playoffs?

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If you equate "low road" to "fighting dirty" then yes, yes it does.

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We’ve never met, but I can possibly identify the likely reason for our differing responses. I’m 65 years old. I lived through the Aint’s. Through wearing bags to games. Through years of losing seasons and last second losses. People my age thought this BS was behind us with the coming of Brees and Payton. For the most part it was. Then two years in a row, games with Super Bowl ramifications were effectively stolen from us. One legally. One, for all practical purposes, illegally. People like me, who’ve live through the years of pain, are having flash backs.

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hallelujahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

hallelujahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

hallelujahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Even if we don't win it, this is the asterisk I am looking for

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1) Call the penalty and restart the game from that point

or

2) Goodell admits the fix was in and resigns - he's almost destroyed football. Vince McMahon could do a better job at this point.

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I'm 66 not having flashbacks but I know what I saw. Watch the video of the ref "telling" the other one not to throw the flag. Something's really wrong here!! The interception with Fowler's forearm all over Brees face mask. In the KC New England game a mere brush of Brady's face mask draws a roughing flag! C'mon Man!!

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I hear you. I've been watching them since '67, too. The Saints have a magical way of keeping us terrified of happiness. It's a unique DNA all its own.

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It wasn't a brush. He completely missed it. The only contact was a forearm to Brady's shoulder pad.

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Correct me if I am wrong.:confused:
I remember the Saints losing in a fair game in the mid 1980s, to gain a playoff game. It must have a wildcard chance .
It may have even been Bum Phillips as coach. Maybe Mora had jut started that year.
Anyway, the Dome was rocking. Saints were really winning. Police were out on horseback around the field. Like a minute or under , something like that, boom. Saints fairly lost.
I was there at that game.
I THINK :confused: they were playing the L.A.Rams.

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Please remove Gotohell's picture from this post!

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A much bigger name is about to join in on that lawsuit. **** may wind up getting real.

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Who is it?

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One call, that’s all!

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That was 1983, the final game of the season. They lost to the Rams on a last second field goal. It would have been their first winning season ever and I think they also could have gotten into the playoffs, although they needed help. That was a very frustrating year. That team had talent, but Bum was a typical ultraconservative defensive coach who played not to lose way too many times. He never could get over the hump against the Steelers when he coached the Oilers and he couldn't get the Saints over the hump, either. Kenny Stabler was a shadow of his former self, which didn't help, either.

Now I'm having flashbacks of that year. Kenny Duckett dropped a touchdown pass that would have put away their first game against the Rams. Tough break, I liked Duckett. Instead, the Rams rode Eric Dickerson to the winning touchdown. The loss to the Cowboys was brutal. Kenny Stabler curled up in the fetal position and took a sack in the endzone that cost them the game. Then there's the final game against the Rams. They should have won at least 11 games that year.

I went back and checked. They would have clinched a wildcard spot if they had won that game. I remember it well. It was the last time I ever cried about the outcome of a football game. The winning season was more important to me than making the playoffs.

Now I just checked and read that Kenny Duckett died a long time ago of diabetes complications. It's probably something a lot of people on here knew. He was only 38. I knew he had diabetes, but I didn't know he was that sick.

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Nice read I’m in this group I was at the very first saints game at 9 yrs old ,later caught a pass from Archie at Cajun field for burger chef promo I found this site the SB season in 09 still here saints fan thru n thru

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There isn't any low road here unless someone wants money lol. Filing suit isn't dirty, and the same people calling this suit dirty wanted Vilma and all of those caught up in bounty-gate to take legal action. This is no loop hole (which do not exist by the way, only poor law/rule writing), or something underhanded...

Low road might even be asking for a win.. Nope. Put both teams at the spot of the foul, 1 and 10, 1:45 on the clock... Let the game play out as it should have.

Taking the high road is not turning ones eye at a wrong doing (there is another word for that), it is making a wrong right. Maybe it is because I am a combat vet and have zero qualms what so ever taking righteous action.

Furthermore, if there is a chance that this action will leave the league with such a bloody nose that they will endeavor to allow professional football to be played without any sort of manipulation then that is a virtuous action which will help restore the purity of the game.

“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.” ~ John Stuart Mill

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Not a bad/missed call at all. Its an intentional manipulation of the outcome of the game for entertainment/marketing purposes.

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I almost had my hatred of Roger under control but after reading this I want to beat the bi%$* out of him again.

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In that 1983 Rams game the Saints had a strong accurate kicker named Morten. Conservative Bum elected to punt instead of kicking a long field goal that would have forced the Rams to score a TD to win. Instead he punted. The rest they say is history. Mike Lansford a bare foot kicker if memory serves me correctly "Picked out a drunk fan between the uprights and kicked it through"