Roger Goodell: The Hypocrite

Roger Goodell had a tremendous task of cleaning up the NFL's image, and so far he's done a good job of this. Yet, even with that, there's one thing that keeps him from having done a great job, and that is his hypocrisy.

When he became the commissioner of the NFL, Goodell set in place a stronger personal policy for the NFL players. These policies allowed for the NFL to discipline individuals even before the incident in question would go to court. Since that policy was put into place, Goodell has suspended Pac-Man Jones for a year in 2007, eight games for Chris Henry in 2007, and Marshawn Lynch for the first three games of the 2009 season.

Jones' and Henry's suspensions were for multiple arrests, and neither Jones or Henry had been convicted of any of them.

Yet, what...

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