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And based on Goodell’s opinion column in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. it looks like the...

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And based on Goodell’s opinion column in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. it looks like the impressive NFL commissioner is completely out of ideas. I wrote on Twitter that the only thing missing from this ludicrous column was exclamation points. You could tell right away that this column was untrustworthy when in the second sentence he wrote, "For six weeks, there has been a work stoppage," as if that was caused by some sort of natural disaster and was not a result of the owners locking out the players. He then talks about how great the NFL system has been for everyone without even taking one sentence to mention the inconvenient fact that it was the owners, not the players, who wanted to blow up the old system in a bald money grab. He then offers an utterly unrealistic and devious doomsday scenario "if the players win" — a scenario that he knows will never happen and is only in play now because of the owners’ greedy lockout that was slammed down by the courts. It all screamed of desperation and, frankly, it felt a bit incompetent, too.

Goodell to the Last Drop by Joe Posnanski from Sports Illustrated