Commissioner, Roger Goodell
likely will be testifying on June 22, just one week from
today before the US House, committee on oversight and
reform Jarrod Bell of USA. Today reported, there have been
some constructive talks between League officials and
the committee. Looked the initial goal was to
try to Lobby the committee to not have a hearing at all. It's
one thing to investigate investigate, many things
only a fairly small percentage of the
As to gatien's become full-blown hearings. But
the hearings happening, this is part of what Roger Goodell gets
paid for. Chris running interference
being the pincushion
answering the tough questions. The only difference is it's not
like a press conference where you can just fill a bus to your
way through an answer and wait for the next question, on
a completely different topic from a completely different person.
So you don't have follow up,
you will get the pointed. Sir, you did not answer my question
from somebody who is trying to get to the bottom of whatever
topics come up next Wednesday.
If Goodell shows up. Yeah, well, it seems
that there's just too much
light on this subject for the NFL, to be able to like totally
avoid it. So that's where I just feels like. Yeah. It's,
he's gotta do it. It's is not going anywhere.
It's been a pretty big hot button topic, you know, for
what? At least a year. And it's got in a lie. One is when it
all starts, right? So yeah. And then it's gotten reignited. A
little bit here
recently to where I don't think you can avoid this in the NFL.
Dawn. And I don't think, you know, of course, the
government resources and stuff aren't going to avoid it right
now. So it will see where it goes. I'll be interested to see
if Daniel Snyder does talk, but I think we're going to have to
see or it seems like Roger Goodell is going to have to
answer some tough questions and
we might get to see behind the curtain a little bit in the NFL,
I'm not quite sure what the etiquette is for. Somebody who says,
thank you for asking me to show up, but I won't
appear without a subpoena
because it should be fairly easy to issue a subpoena. If
they really wanted the subpoenas really matter.
Maybe a welder. Well, no
I think I think some of the folks who defied subpoenas
found out the hard way that there is, there is justice
that will eventually come get you if you give the middle finger
to any type of validly, issued subpoena, but
Goodell maybe what they have to settle for for now. And maybe
if they may be there was just like a negotiation where we'll
give you good. He'll back off on Snyder. Will give you a dell
and then we'll revisit it afterward if they're happy with
what they get.
Goodell. And he's it's gonna be a long day for him.
It really is. And it may not just be about Washington. He
could be about, to Sean Watson. It could be about Stephen Ross.
It could be about all sorts of things. There's no
restrictions by the members of the committee, once they have
their five minutes, they're going to ask them, whatever
they want to ask him,
and he hasn't testified
to a house committee
since 2009. When
the Judiciary Committee had both were Roger Goodell and
more Smith, among others there to testify about head, trauma
about the NFL's, failure to take it seriously. And you know
what, that was the moment where the NFL took, it. Seriously,
that's the shot across the
bow, that's where congressional power can be very, very useful.
You always have the knee-jerk.
Well, don't they have better things to do with? Yes, they
have better things to do and they do them,
they're capable of doing multiple things. But when
you're dealing with a major Private Industry, like
the National Football League, which is such an important part of
our public life, that 20 to 30 million people will too.
In any given primetime game to watch, it's important to
regulate it. So you make it clear.
We think you have a problem
and you better fix it because if you don't we will and you
won't like the solution it worked with the brain
injury issue and it will probably work in some way Chris
with this. It will force the NFL to do something that
otherwise wouldn't have done
as it relates to the Washington came and they can go
anywhere with this though. Like the, I'd, that's right,
I didn't know that.
They can, they can take this,
you know, down different roads of the NFL. It doesn't just
stay with, you know, the subject of Washington and and
what's going on with Daniel Snyder and all that.
I think that the
members of Congress who posed their
allotted time of questions for Roger, Goodell are only limited
by the time. Yeah. You can ask whatever they want us course
they are. You ran the risk and the risk. They're going to look
like idiots. I mean,
you know, if you do go too far, right? But we'll see.
I watched some of these hearings from time to time.
I mean, it's obvious, the line of questioning is more about
pandering to your base or raising funds whatever your
base is
either side. Yeah, it's not about getting to the truth.
It's about some broader effort to grandstand but
you just never know, you never know. And that's what Roger
Goodell is walking into. And again it's not going to be like
a press conference
where you just give a non-answer
and you wait for the next question,
he's going to have to find a way
to give a non-answer. That looks like a real answer and
they don't realize until it's over. This guy didn't say.
Anything's got to be the Nick Saban press conference
the next day when press conference seems like he's
actually saying something and he is when he's talking about
in il now, but the old Nick Saban press conference. It
seems like he's saying something to you. Look at
the transcripts that guy didn't say a
damn thing. That's what Roger Goodell needs to try to do next
week to minimize the potential.