Commissioner Roger Goodell Gets It Right on Suspension of Colts Owner Jim Irsay

September 2, 2014   ·   Mike Freeman   ·   Jump to comments

It took about five minutes for the first text to come from a union team official once Roger Goodell announced that Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay would be suspended six games and fined $500,000 for violating the league's Personal Conduct Policy.
"Bulls--t penalty," the player said. "Roger taking it easy on his boss."
A few more texts from team player reps buzzed in, and they all took similar tones. Some of the key words: "bulls--t," "crap," "double standard," "players get judged harsher" … you get the picture.
When someone on Twitter asked Hall of Fame tight end Shannon Sharpe about the punishment, he wrote: 
ESPN analysts Herm Edwards and Mark Brunell said the punishment was light. That's the sentiment among players. Players, in general, don't trust Goodell. They believe that if a player had been stopped by police while driving drunk with a bag of pills and cash, as Irsay was, Goodell's punishment of the player would have been so stern that it ...

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