49ers lose pick, and Bears and 49ers switch 3rd round picks?? What is this make up your own rule time or something? He must be used to playing Madden and creating his own user settings, creating players, and overriding ridiculous trades so his team is better than the computers!! Goodell what are you doing?
Read this article:
http://www.mercurynews.com/49ers/ci_8688833
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/13/AR2008031304158.html
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 14, 2008; Page E07 In a proposal to crack down on cheating, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell wants the league’s competition committee to look not only at the large infractions but the comparatively minor violations as well.
Read this article on the Washington Post
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/7902338/There-has-to-be-more-to-the-Spygate-story
Good article on Fox Sports about there being more to Spygate…why else would Roger Goodell fine Belichick $500,000 and the Patriots half of that at $250,000…It does smell fishy.
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http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/7884340/Report:-Goodell-wants-to-get-tougher-on-spying
Suprise inspections & more Goodell plans on cracking down on the spying ring…? Is there really a problem with cheating in the NFL? Besides the ongoing steroid tests and investigations is spygate a tell that all teams are doing similar illegal activities?
Washington – NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, in House testimony set for delivery Wednesday morning, plans to accuse Comcast and Time Warner of discriminating against the NFL Network while faulting the Federal Communications Commission for ineffectively patrolling program carriage laws designed to protect independent channels.
“Dominant cable operators have the motive and the means to discriminate against independent programmers. History demonstrates that they have done so and continue to do so,” Goodell says in testimony obtained Tuesday by Multichannel News.
Goodell is to appear before the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet along with Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt, ESPN president George Bodenheimer, and DirecTV executive vice president Derek Chang.
In his testimony, Britt says that the NFL can’t have it both ways: demanding broad access to cable homes for the league-owned NFL Network while denying cable access to NFL Sunday Ticket, the out-of-market game package available only on DirecTV.
“The NFL in particular is being especially disingenuous in appealing to the government to compel distributors to carry one of [its] services – the NFL Network – on broadly distributed tiers while simultaneously defending its right to limit distribution of its more appealing service – the NFL Sunday Ticket Package – to a single distributor, DirecTV,” Britt says.
Bodenheimer, in his comments, calls for governmental restraint in the cable programming market. ESPN in recent years has been concerned about government-imposed a la carte mandates, which would allow consumers to pay for only those channels they wish to view.
“Given the fierce competition in both programming and distribution, I strongly urge you to refrain from intervening in these markets,” Bodenheimer says.
Goodell devotes much of his testimony to the NFL Network’s clash with Time Warner, which does not carry the network, and Comcast, which puts it on a sports tier.
The operators’ refusal to put the NFL Network before all their cable subscribers was discriminatory, Goodell says, because the cable companies don’t threat their affiliated sports channels the same way.
“The cable giants’ bottleneck leverage gives them the power to discriminate unfairly against independent programmers, even those with programming as popular as that of the NFL,” Goodell says.
Goodell’s testimony fails to mention that the NFL Network had exclusive rights to just eight regular-season primetime games near the end of the season and sought a premium license fee from cable providers.
Goodell says the FCC has the tools to protect independent programmers that can’t get cable carriage but has done a poor job of using them.
“The process adopted by the FCC 15 years ago — as it has been implemented — is ineffective. It is slow, expensive, and inherently protective of cable operators — in a phrase, it is compellingly in need of change,” Goodell says.
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