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Super Bowl final act of NFL’s worst season
(APNEWS.MYWAY) — PHOENIX (AP) — Domestic violence. Questionable discipline. Player safety. Confusing officiating. Deflated footballs.
The disturbing headlines that began last February never slowed down for the NFL this season. The problems — most of them made worse by the ineffectual handling — mushroomed into an imperfect storm that hurt the league’s credibility and turned the lead-up to Sunday’s Super Bowl into a time for damage control, not celebration.
“It never ceases,” said Orin Starn, a Duke professor who studies sports in society. “It was one crisis and PR challenge after another and I didn’t envy Roger Goodell at all.”
At the commissioner’s contentious news conference Friday — Goodell fielded one question about whether he thought he should be fired and another about taking a pay cut — he was hit with a barrage of questions that spoke to the wide range of problems that punctured the league’s integrity, though not its popularity.
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The NFL, in my book, lost what integrity it had because the love of money replaced the love of the game. They whitewash the surface, but underneath its rotten, real rotten. Katie Perry’s Satanic Illuminati half-time ritual says it all! I watch parts of the game, and none of the halftime ritual. The officiating was terrible! It looked as though they were calling the game in favor of the Patriots! It was flagrant, as though the “fix” was in! I used to like pro football and college football, but all the money involved has ruined it all! As it has been said, “The love of money is the root of all evil”, and this is blatantly apparent today!