Monday, December 18, 2017

The Shield: Another crisis averted?

Something in this story struck me as wrong....

Panthers’ Jerry Richardson may have saved NFL from prying into dirty laundry. yahoo! sports

The lawyers who spoke to Yahoo Sports on Sunday said that was the massive red flag in the Sports Illustrated report on Richardson: That he allegedly used non-disclosure agreements with four former employees to shield his actions. An act that could potentially protect him from some form of litigation, but also keep him in the good graces of the league.

So, the problem (for the NFL) is not that Richardson was a serial sexual harasser, but that he used non-disclosure agreements to keep it from the League?

OK then.

The continued unraveling of the NFL is a horrific, sad, and often fascinating thing to watch. You can't imagine that their attitude on this one is going to help their public relations any.

Granted, it's not as bad as Mario Batali's apology and pivot to cinnamon rolls but it does continue to make an out-of-touch, poorly ran, tone deaf league appear even more so.

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