Goodell still sucks

By Jeff

Roger Goodell is a joke that just never ends. A bad joke that your friend is telling and you listen to because you're either to nice to cut him short or there is no escape and you're forced to withstand it.

So what has Goodell done now? He's suspended Terrelle Pryor for the first five games of the season. Goodell's reasoning is Pryor made "decisions that undermine the integrity of the eligibility rules for the NFL draft." What does that even mean?

Apparently he "didn't cooperate with the NCAA and hiring of an agent in violation of NCAA rules. Notice that the organization he didn't had issues with was not the NFL. Since when has the NFL punished players for the way they acted in college? And how can a league suspend a player before he is even a part of the league?

This is just another instance of Goodell being a tool. I would say he is overstepping his bounds, but he has no bounds when it comes to the NFL. He basically makes decisions and there is nothing anyone else can do but complain.

This is why the Pittsburgh Steelers almost unanimously voted against the new CBA. They were pissed about how much power was staying with Goodell.

There are countless college players that leave college amid some sort of controversy or after they are kicked out for poor grades. To my knowledge, none of these players have been suspended before they were drafted by the NFL.

And to say Pryor was undermining the draft is a bit of a joke to me. He was planning on returning to Ohio State next season and didn't enter the draft. Then Jim Tressel said he was not coming back and Pryor faced a barrage of criticism from media and OSU fans. He changed his mind and thought it best to go pro. Isn't that the whole reason there is a supplemental draft? For players who were planning on returning to school but then don't because of other circumstances?

I have no love for Pryor or Ohio State. I worked in Jeannette, Pa., for 18 months and it is a very depressing place that I have no positive feelings toward. But Pryor should not have been suspended. It's just Goodell flexing his muscles to prove he can.

By the way, Pryor got drafted by the Oakland Raiders. Isn't that enough punishment?

Josh Ritter - Good Man