Roger Goodell Says Assessing TD Celebration Versus Domestic Violence Punishments Are 'Complicated'

Goodell has been scrutinized by NFL fans for cracking down on touchdown celebrations with big fines versus dealing with players' domestic violence cases.

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Roger Goodell never ceases to amaze NFL fans with his unpopular takes on how to assess punishments of players. If you're a Tom Brady diehard, a feminist following the Josh Brown situation, or followed the way he has circumvented admissions of the chances for attaining CTE from playing football, you get my drift about the league's commissioner. But he seems to know that he's a villain to many, and as a businessman he just keeps it moving for the NFL to remain the most lucrative pro sports league on the planet.

Goodell was featured in an interview on the BBC Sport network during his stay in London for Sunday's Giants-Rams game. When asked by reporter Richard Conway about the NFL's apparent crackdown on touchdown celebrations versus their handling of domestic violence cases of players beating their significant others, Goodell was seemingly scapegoating the "public's misunderstanding" on the moral discrepancy.

Here's a segment from that interview claiming that its a "complicated" matter to analyze between these two topics.

Conway: The criticism that comes back to you is that people see punishments for touchdown celebrations but then only one game for a domestic violence incident. It must be very difficult to balance those things and explain them?

So, basically the fans are the ones who can't understand why the NFL is keeping Josh Brown paid as a millionaire on Goodell's exempt list versus players who risk tens of thousands of dollars for dancing after touchdowns on big plays. Blame yourselves.

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