WhoDat!656

Hard to know where to start when discussing the eight-day-old officiating decision heard-round-the-NFL that played a major role in the Rams winning the NFC title game. I think we should start at silence … silence from the NFL, and from commissioner Roger Goodell, and (mostly) from vice president for officiating Al Riveron.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl...cL&ocid=HPCDHP

bobdog86

In the eyes of the nfl, the quicker it goes away the better, by addressing it, the wound will never scab. The last thing goodhell wants to do is address it publicly. He is a worthless, overpaid POS gluttonous CEO, like many who only cares about his wallet and the shield.

Beastmode

There is nothing to prevent this from happening again. What is the point of even playing the game. One rogue ref can ruin the game. Nothing has changed. He's not even remorseful for making the worse non call in the history of the game.

saintsfan1976

Goodell would make an excellent Congressman.

dskyyksd

Goodell has failed to uphold the integrity of the game at a time when it was needed the most. He should be canned for running from the NFC championship debacle because the Super Bowl should have been protected. Not one more game should have been played without an end to any possibility of what happened to the Saints happening again.

If he's handling this with secret directives in secret meetings in smoke-filled rooms, that is unacceptable. This situation demanded public, forthright, and transparent leadership. The trust of the fans needed to be respected. He failed the game, and he failed us.

All he had to do was add PI to reviewable calls according to the rules already in place for replay review. All he had to do was show the fans that he cares about the game we all love and that he is watching over it. And he needed to do that before he ran off to Atlanta to start the annual glad-handing of media week. THE game is way more important than A game, even if that game is a Super Bowl.

I'm not saying the Saints should have been given an unprecedented second chance to play the game or play the end of the game. I understand you have to move on, but you have to move on with the intention of doing better. You have to care. The only thing Roger Goodell cares about is himself. He couldn't have done a better job of proving it.

jeanpierre

Or...

Goodell would fit in excellently as a Congressman...

Hiyeena

the reason goodell doesn't give a **** about the bad call in ram-saints game is the same reason he doesn't give a **** about the bad calls in saints-vikings
nfc championship game. They really helped you win over vikings and helped you lose to rams, grow up and deal with it.

Beastmode

They will deal with the refs and this situation but it will be after the SB. That is why people are angry. It should be dealt with now. A fine is not going to cut it on a player who admitted he did it on purpose with a ref right in front of it.

It doesn't deal with the actual problem. It pushes it on a player who, had nothing to do with that problem. The problem is still there and nothing in place to stop it from happening again. It ruins the game.

WhoDat!656

Ok junior. Time to get off the computer so your Mom can sell her twerking DVDs online.

jeanpierre