Goddell has been heavy with the big stick when it has come to players and their actions when ever it has been and embarrassment to the NFL. Somewhere along the way those players have always been guilty in a court of law and their punishment was based on that guilt.
The district attorney in Georgia in Roethlisberger latest entanglement has all but said he is guilty but getting a guilty verdict in a court would be hard. Big Ben has been in the league six years and has now acted stupid three times. Twice on sexual charges which in neither case have there been any charges. He almost killed himself after his rookie year on a motor cycle. To say the least to be one of the 100 million dollar quarterbacks, the face of the NFL Ben has to be the stupidest.
In order for Goddell to keep the players approving his method of suspending players when ever they don't act as if they are professional players he must come down hard on Big Ben. Four games seems to me to be about right.
The saving grace for Goddell just might be the Rooney family the owners of the Steelers. It sure seems as if they are headed toward suspending Ben which could take the pressure off Goddell. Roethlisberger needs time away from the game and learn to realize that the NFL has given him more than he has given the NFL.
Got home last night from the game to see the last hour of the baseball movie the Rookie. Sometimes movies get better the more you watch them and you come to realize that this movie is a lot like what you have been through.
If you haven't seen the movie it is about Jim Morris who as a teenager tried to make it in minor league baseball until arm trouble ended his career. He becomes a high school coach and as the years pass tells his team he will try out again if they will win their conference title and they do. His arm had healed and during the try out as a 35 year old threw twelve pitches in a row at 98 miles and hour. The Tampa Devil Rays signed him up.
What I really like about this movie is the way the entire town becomes a part of watching him try to make it. I can relate to this as a ten year old bat boy of the Ahoskie American Legion team in 1962 and 1963 as Jimmy Hunter signed right out of high school and went to the major leagues. Jimmy was from Hertford but because he played legion in Ahoskie there is no one that lived in Ahoskie at the time that will not tell you he wasn't from Ahoskie.
When ever Kansas City came to Baltimore car loads of people from both Hertford and Ahoskie went to see their boy play. Morris got credit for playing two years in the bigs which was a dream comes true for everyone pulling for him.
I have another trivia question to let you bend you mind over. The dean Dome is full of jerseys hanging in the rafters. Only eight however are officially retired. Can you tell me what number Jack Cobb wore ?
