NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said the league should have listened to players earlier about racism concerns in response to NFL players calling on the league to condemn racism and support its black players.
Goodell posted a video to the NFL's social media in response to the video "Stronger Together," which features multiple black NFL players asking the league to take a strong stance in the wake of George Floyd's death.
"We the National Football League, condemn racism and the systematic oppression of black people," Goodell said. "We, the National Football League, admit we were wrong for not listening to NFL players earlier and encourage all to speak out and peacefully protest," Goodell said.
Notably, Goodell did not mention former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who faced a backlash from the league and others for kneeling before games while the National Anthem played to protest police brutality.
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DON’T JUST SAY IT, MEAN IT AND DO IT!
Exactly!
You’re late on the delivery your true intentions are still clear.
Goodell is a L-I-A-R
From covering up the concussion problem to his mindless protection of owners. He is a used car salesman. Nothing more.
Don’t forget about em harboring them domestic and sexual abusers.
Considering the team owners picked him, it’s not altogether surprising that he would protect them.
He works for the owners not the players , he’s loyal to his paycheck nothing else .
Badd Apple yeah those “abusers “ make the owners money ! If they didn’t then they would be out real quick !
I’m sure they miss those days when all they had to do was let players taking a knee during the anthem.
No respect in this country it’s a joke. You arent a victim! You live in a society that is more cush then anything we have ever seen. It’s a trip
@Carl Sagan lol try it not during the national anthem. Being a vet maybe other people dont get it… I have no idea. Maybe other people don’t have respect or common sense… Who knows? You know what though? Were all humans and life isn’t fair. Hold you burden and carry it show respect and get it
@Brad Thorgramson you don’t get to tell people how to protest.
@Annette Carter You mean destroy and vandalize our cities? Ok…
@Brad Thorgramson, kneeling has absolutely nothing to do with disrespect to the flag, but just calling attention to an important issue. Does kneeling to be knighted by the queen amount to disrespect to the queen? Bending the knee is the ultimate sign of submission. How don’t you get that?
When he said listen to players, you mean Colin Kaepernick?
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@Rocks Cousteau he was trash too,all these SJWs calling for his job back when no team wants a trash qb
He needs to resign & the players need to call for his resignation!!!
@Edith Woods because leftists don’t like him! Everyone leftists don’t like deserves to lose their job and have their lives ruined! Helllloooooooo, it’s 2020!😲
@Ocasio-Cortez4prez2022 Is there an English version?
@Ocasio-Cortez4prez2022 lol yeah coz extreme right-wingers NEVER do that, they are like princess-saints.
lol shut up
If his actions from here on are as good as his words, he should be allowed to implement the changes. That is what the protest is about …..remorse and change.
@Eco Geek nobody said we were saints, but when is the last time a right wing outrage mob tried to cancel someone just for having a naughty opinion?
Isn’t amazing that when Caucasians get threatened by monetary loss they all of a sudden understand and want to work to make changes.
Sounds like South Africa
@Joseph James And you need a biff.
@Joseph James And as i said you need a biff.
@myfingershavetheflu a biff? does it come with fries?
And isn’t it funny blacks don’t care about blacks until a black is killed by a white man? Or when it’s time to loot a store? Or beat up elderly people?
Imagine saying the exact same thing as everyone else and thinking you’re brave and edgy for doing so
Stop imagining what hes thinking
I Feel You on that but if You know 1/2 of the Owners are supporters of DRUMPF (Actual Family Name of TRUMP) and You’re THEIR Representative, this Big as FAR AS THEY ARE CONCERNED. It puts a Standard of Expectations that the Players and Critics on them to follow thru on This New Found Pro-Black narrative of the NFL.
@Pat Jenkins lol it is not imagination – he said one thing, then said another when everyone pushed back. lol. smh.
Not everyone is slobbering all over BLM and fake crying over the death of Fentanyl Floyd.
Now NFL saw Young Americans of
All Races Protest this Injustice. It’s
all about the Dollar Demographics
Baby…..😎✌
Applejack TV do you have any type of proof to verify what you said because u obviously saying things that are full of bullshit out of your mouth.
@J dawg JEWS love their scheckles
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You can google his rap sheet. This is now well known. He also did a 5 yr stint in prison. Quite a few felonies. Still none of this justifies his death in the manner it happened but some light is also being shed on that. Things are not as they seem.
Hi Ye
Google it. Not hard to find.
Didn’t seem to care much when kap kneeled tho
@Science Basketball Most qbs in nfl are always shitty… most of them ain’t played a SuperBowl tho..
Senai B 16 for 28
302 yards
1Td 1Int
Ranked 51st in all time QB super bowl performances
Why do people care about this guy, he was mediocre at best.
https://crime-data-explorer.fr.cloud.gov/explorer/national/united-states/crime https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/
On the contrary, I walked away from the NFL never to return. Let them all go broke Drew Brees included.
Donny Boon Okay champ Go win another Superbowl in Madden
He meant to say “No black players NO BILLIONS of dollars”.
@Michael Duffy I find it rather funny you think there will be “No white fans” after this. lol. Have you seen the crowds at protests across the nation? Look at who’s out there. It’s a true rainbow coalition. And that’s just the big cities. There are white people in predominately white small towns out there who are standing and/or kneeling in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter protesters.
https://saraacarter.com/burgess-owens-democrats-are-frantic-that-the-black-vote-is-leaving-their-party/ The Democratic party is “frantic” that an increasing number of black Americans are leaving the party to back President Donald Trump and Republicans in the November election, Former Oakland Raiders Super Bowl star and Republican candidate for Congress Burgess Owens explained to “The Sara Carter Show” on Thursday’s episode.
exactly. These Owners are letting these Black players destroy their bodies so that they can make billions of dollars off it. It’s fucked up.
@Michael Duffy You are part of the problem.
AJ Dixon …RIP CNN 2021…👍🇺🇸
So give Kap his job back
FINALLY !
Hopefully old Kaeperdouche gets thrown in Federal Prison for inciting a riot. He isnt in the NFL because he sucks. He isnt even a backup. He is a 4th stringer. He should get together with Lebron….and go to the bad part of Chicago and stop all the black on black crime………………………..murders every weekend………in QUANTITY.
Truth
He sucks.
big-fax.
he blows tho
Kap needs his job back let’s start there
@sean grant liberals think every time something bad happens to a black person, it’s racism. So it’s easy to see where they live in this paranoid, delusional state, where they think the racism boogeyman lurks around every corner. You could easily turn full blown lunatic with that state of mind about anything, it’s like a jealous husband that’s convinced his wife is cheating, so because he’s chosen to see the world through that lens, everything she does gets twisted in his head as some kind of evidence of her cheating. Leftists are mentally unstable, and I do not throw that term around lightly. The media and democrats have turned millions of people into diagnosable lunatics.
@Ocasio-Cortez4prez2022 Run away little girl and throw your bait somewhere else bait for hate that’s you in a nutshell girly.
Wow you are dumb. Playing in the NFL is not a right but a privilege. Kap is entitled to exactly zero in the NFL until he earns his way back.
@myfingershavetheflu what part was I wrong about?
Roger cares about his coints… 🤣🤣
You seriously edited that?
@Brad Thorgramson No.. auto check replaced the word with he. Mind your business.
The Black Players should have done this four years ago and supported Colin.
i kinda agree, but with so many of these youngsters believing like prostitutes, all they can only make money with their bodies: money talks, bs walks. they have little support system in the league and no rich uncle, or family business to fall back on and possibly limited education/skills!
@jrmdj23 Why do you say that? Just asking
Does anyone know how long we will have to pretend to care about a dead criminal?
@greg j Fentanyl Floyd. The turd has been flushed.
@greg j so he panders to blacks?
Kap said this years ago and nobody listened until 2020
Just like him they always have to be one brother that through punches but got knocked doen by the pigs, racists,… till more starts throwing punches. Malcolm X, Ali, Nate Turner, Kareem, those in the negro leagues, Rosa Park….
Yep and peacefully with respect mind you, they fired him and blackballed him for it, now we deal with it, because its come to this. “Those who make peaceful resolution impossible, make violent resolution envitable” #ICantBreathICantBeHeard
And he was wrong. Very wrong
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Exactly….now give him his damn job back!!!
Exactly!
Yeah right, so did kaepernick, this commissioner is a hypocrite
HYPOCRITE ?? WTF ??…HE SAID THE NFL WAS WRONG !! …..ITS ABOUT TIME !! MORON.
I definitely believe Goodell should have mentioned Kapernick !!!
Yes he should have. I agree 💯!✌👍🤓
superdivemaster He is reading that speech off a card or a prompter what a false prick.
Other players need to stand up with this protesters. Stand up to Trump hate and the owner’s, take that knee and get off our neck.
It’s all about the Benjamins people. “Money, money, monay, monnnaaayyyy…..”