Roger Goodell's Letter To Fans

tl:dr

Would be the extent of my response letter.

Before we know it, if it’s up to Goodell, football will no longer be football. And yet, he keeps sucking up to fans, pretending to care what we think.

Never have I seen anyone associated with the rules of a professional sport obsessed over changing the things that made this game great, and ignore all of the issues that need addressing. If Roger Goodell wanted to make any improvements in this game than he would fire all of the lame officials and replace them with professional officials that had one job and one job only… officiating NFL games correctly. He’s made at least a dozen (if not more) changes to this game under the guise of player safety and rules to improve the game, (many of which have made the game less entertaining and nowhere near any safer) but he refuses to address the MOST GLARING issue and that is the INCONSISTENT OFFICIATING. I used to LOVE the sport of football, (or at least as it was here in the USA) but I am beginning to dislike it more and more as the years go by. Roger Goodell is destroying the game and the quality has gone down significantly since he has been in charge… I’M NOT ALONE IN THAT ASSESSMENT. It is becoming blatantly obvious that Las Vegas (or some other criminal entity) has more power over this game than Roger Goodell ever dreamed of, which is probably why he’s so obsessed with changing the rules that he has the power to. Remember when he came to Detroit and talked to the season-ticket holders? I saw the broadcast of that online and he claimed that every play of every single NFL game is reviewed by the league office in New York, and he stated that 99% of every call the officials made were correct. Apparently they’re not watching the replays of the games that are taking place weekly and in the last few seasons, because the officiating has gone downhill IMMENSELY!!! Even with the Detroit Lions averaging 12 penalties per game (or thereabouts) probably almost half of those penalty calls going against the Lions should never have been called. And that doesn’t even include all of the non-calls the Lions never get that should have penalized the opposing team. If anyone has any doubts you needn’t go any further back in history than the last two games the Lions played this season. There were several blown calls, wrong calls, (not to mention ignorant calls) “ill-timed whistles” and the like in those two games that screamed for PROFESSIONAL OFFICIALS! The Jordy Nelson muffed punt decision (I won’t even justify that by calling that a call) in the Green Bay game… remember that one (the one that even Mr. Magoo Would’ve gotten right) if you need anything else to prove how corrupt the NFL is I don’t know what it’s gonna take. I used to be crazy about the NHL too, but Gary Bettman turned me off to that sport when he reluctantly awarded the Stanley Cup to the Detroit Red Wings the last time they won it. If anyone couldn’t tell by his disapproving body language, fake smile, and anxiousness to remove himself from the ice surface after awarding the trophy then I don’t know what more proof you need. I will be hard-pressed to watch another NFL game until Roger Goodell grows a pair of gonads, bucks the institution, and employees officials that study the game in the off-season, and make the correct (not to mention competent) calls during the regular season. Unfortunately I don’t see that happening especially with the younger generation because they don’t care enough about the sport to protest it. As long as everyone keeps spending money on the NFL, promoting teams by purchasing jerseys and whatnot, not to mention paying the exorbitant prices for tickets to go to a game then nothing will ever change. The product that the NFL is currently thriving on will continue to diminish for those of us who are true fans, purists of the game prior to the Roger Goodell era. The only reason that Roger Goodell refuses to employ professional officials to officiate NFL games is MONEY (IMHO) because the NFL would have to pay their salaries year-round and not just during the season. Why would Roger Goodell want to take money out of this his own pocket (not to mention the rest of his cronies in the NFL offices) to improve the game when people are willing to accept the status quo? If you need any proof look at how crummy ex-NFL players lives are because of the NFL not treating their ex employees (ex-NFL players) like anything other than livestock after they have served their purpose. I swear to God they might as well be horses heading to the glue factory after serving their Lords and Masters faithfully their entire lives.