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Post by alienrace on Jul 12, 2023 10:02:39 GMT -5
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Post by pickle20 on Jul 12, 2023 12:20:31 GMT -5
Pretty amazing that the NFL can make a Davis and Jon Gruden look sympathetic and the ones who were wronged. But that's exactly what they did.
I'm curious to see what else comes from these 650K emails.
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Post by Evil Yoda on Jul 12, 2023 17:49:13 GMT -5
"The tactics were so ruthless that some attorneys felt uncomfortable."
How bad does a tactic have to be to make an attorney uncomfortable. That profession defines "win at any cost".
Everyone involved seems shady or stupid or both. It's a mess. Will it affect viewership? Difficult to say but I would bet not. If the league survived Trump using it to generate political capital it can survive this. The key will be the fans who tell themselves the same thing voters tell themselves: "my guy is okay, it's the other guy who is the problem." Failing utterly to realize that if everyone agrees on that point (as they seem to in the political version of the question), then ALL the guys are the problem.
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Post by alienrace on Jul 13, 2023 7:20:30 GMT -5
"The tactics were so ruthless that some attorneys felt uncomfortable." How bad does a tactic have to be to make an attorney uncomfortable. That profession defines "win at any cost". Everyone involved seems shady or stupid or both. It's a mess. Will it affect viewership? Difficult to say but I would bet not. If the league survived Trump using it to generate political capital it can survive this. The key will be the fans who tell themselves the same thing voters tell themselves: "my guy is okay, it's the other guy who is the problem." Failing utterly to realize that if everyone agrees on that point (as they seem to in the political version of the question), then ALL the guys are the problem. The league will of course survive. Goodell, Pash, etc, perhaps not so much.
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Post by Evil Yoda on Jul 13, 2023 15:20:03 GMT -5
The league will of course survive. Goodell, Pash, etc, perhaps not so much. Goodell is an owners' commissioner; the absolute only thing he cares about is whether they make money. Integrity of the game, he leaves to the diminishing segment of fans to whom that still matters. I suspect he's as close to bulletproof as one gets in a job like that. But others may well do his penance.
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