It has been a really bad season for NFL commissioner Roger Goodell who has had to deal with one scandal after another since last September. There have been various domestic violence cases within the league, Adrian Peterson was accused of abusing his young son and then there was the Ray Rice scandal that has yet to fully go away. While Goodell has insisted that he never say the surveillance footage of Rice knocking his wife out cold, until the whole world saw it on TMZ, not many seem to believe him. Then came deflategate, a situation that has yet to be resolved even though the Super Bowl is just hours away.
Goodell showed up for a press conference yesterday, ahead of Sunday's game and was met with a multitude of questions that he no doubt would rather have avoided. When asked if he could ever see a situation arising that would lead to him resigning, Goodell kind of laughed off the idea.
"It has been a tough year, a tough year on me personally. It's been a year of humility and learning. We obviously as an organization have gone through adversity, but more importantly it's been adversity for me. That is something we take seriously. It's an opportunity for us to get better, it's an opportunity for our organization to get better, so we've all done lot of soul-searching, starting with yours truly. We have taken action. A lot of the concerns that we had back in August where we didn't have a policy to address a very complex issue-we didn't have answers for that. We didn't fully understand those issues. Well, now we experts in the field, they're in our office, they're helping us understand this." said the commissioner.
It's pretty clear that he believes that no matter what happens, his job is secure. That's a pretty logical conclusion for him to draw when the multitude of bricks that have fallen on Goodell in the last year haven't lead to the year firing it. While the owners have kept him on the job, many fans think that he needs to go. What are your thoughts? Is the NFL in trouble as long as Goodell is leading the way? Tell us your thoughts in the comments below!
