Roger Goodell isn't going anywhere

This should be the final straw for NFL's robotic Roger Goodell

Going into Friday's news conference in New York, the question was whether Roger Goodell would resign. Coming out of it, the question is whether he will be fired.

Not likely. This corporate employee served well his corporate bosses, the 32 NFL owners.

They were probably thrilled with his performance. Most of the rest of the free world was appalled. The reviews ranged from disappointment to horror. If this had been a Broadway play, the theater's doors would be closing right now.

I understood better why Goodell was still in office, several days after the Ray Rice fiasco erupted like a volcano that evidently neither he nor the NFL was equipped to control.  Alex Grossman posted the article above, and I commented in response to a telling point from Leo Sanchez:

Even if Goodell leaves his position, which I seriously doubted. That's not going to solve the domestic violence situation..!!

You're right, domestic violence is a much bigger, more complicated problem than even the mighty NFL can handle, with or without Goodell. But I very much agree that he has to go: He has great business acumen, but he is incompetent as a leader and is morally suspect. I am astounded that despite what's obvious to us, owners have not spoken out against him. In fact the handful who have spoken out are supportive of him. What I think is this: He's done a lot of good for these owners (i.e., made boatloads of money), and in the process he's curried personal favors with many of them. So all that said, I just don't see Goodell leaving. The question about whether he was resigning, during the press conference, was a silly one: If your salary was $44 million a year, would you just resign? So the resolution to the terrible mess the NFL created will not come from Goodell, his lame apologies and promises notwithstanding, or anyone from within the NFL. Federal and-or local authorities have to step in with real subpoena and arrest powers. Otherwise how many more women and children have been harmed, or will be harmed, by how many more players we haven't heard about, yet? I mean, if anyone of us did what Ray Rice did to Janay Palmer, we'd have our asses sitting in jail!