In their zeal to eliminate any statute of limitations on offensive speech and otherwise make dissent forever unforgiveable, much of the media have rushed to the side of poor little multimillionaire Roger Goodell, the NFL commissioner who petulantly leaked years-old private emails written by suddenly ousted Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden. The emails reportedly used a mean, unwoke word to describe and insult Goodell. If only Gruden had been as cagey as some bright third-grade boys known to this publication who once used the class dictionary to find a way around their teacher’s comparable proscription of the mean word that cost him his job.
Jon Gruden told the truth.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, the leaker of Gruden’s years-old, presumed private emails, is a bundle of sticks.
If Goodell were an actual man and not merely the bundle of sticks Gruden says he is, he’d have quietly called out and then thrown down with his insulter.
But like a tattletale crybaby who is called a bundle of sticks by a classmate and runs off to tell the teacher, Goodell went leaking to the press, hoping to destroy Gruden’s career from behind the teacher’s skirt, even though it likely meant ruining the Raiders’ once promising season.
Never mind that Goodell’s paid handsomely to promote and fairly oversee all NFL teams, each of which has players, coaches and staff who, for good reason it seems, privately call him a bundle of sticks every day.
By letting pettiness and pique get the better of him―like a temperamental choreographer, fashion consultant or hair stylist on a reality TV show might―Goodell proved Gruden right.
Roger Goodell is a bundle of sticks.
