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NFL's Facebook Message to Fans Example of Social Media Fail
By Stephanie Stradley - AOL NewsWhy is it that so many large corporations are so bad at social media? The latest example of social media failure is the NFL's recent use of Facebook to communicate with fans. On Tuesday, the NFL used Facebook to get Roger Goodell's message out to fans about his desire to get a labor deal done by March. Most fans agree with this point of view. However, the Facebook message went beyond that and added an ill-advised question: "A message from Commissioner Roger Goodell on a new agreement: "This is an opportunity to create a better future for the NFL, to improve the game for our fans." How would ...
'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal Needs to Resonate With Pro Sports -- Now
By Kevin Blackistone - AOL NewsFour years into the Second World War, Lt. Carlton Skinner, the commander of the U.S. weather ship Sea Cloud in the North Atlantic, sent a memo up the Navy's chain of command. He requested that it allow him to start training black seamen, long relegated to menial tasks, for critical jobs reserved for white sailors. Skinner argued that an integrated ship would run smoother. The Navy acquiesced. In early 1945, two years before baseball allowed Jackie Robinson to re-integrate its ranks after more than half a century, upwards of 50 black sailors, including two officers, joined the Sea Cloud crew. ...
Sherrod Brown Urges NFL to End TV Blackout Policy Given Tough Economy
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyThe NFL season got underway this past weekend, and Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown is worried that some fans hard hit by the faltering economy won't be able to watch games in person or on TV. In a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, Brown urged the league to revisit it "blackout" policy that keeps games off local television stations when they are not sold out 72 hours in advance. The Democrat had the interests of Cincinnati Bengals and Cleveland Browns fans in mind, the Hill newspaper reports, but those aren't the only ones in danger of having home games blacked out on TV. According to a survey ...
Lions President Tom Lewand Suspended 30 Days, Fined $100K
By Michael David Smith - AOL NewsThe NFL has suspended Detroit Lions President Tom Lewand for 30 days and fined him $100,000 as a result of his drunk driving arrest and subsequent guilty plea, as Commissioner Roger Goodell shows once again that he's serious about holding all league employees to high standards in their personal conduct. In this case, Goodell was even tougher on Lewand than he usually is on players: The DUI was Lewand's first offense under the league's personal-conduct policy, and NFL players typically aren't disciplined for first DUI offenses. "You occupy a special position of responsibility and trust, and - ...
Unlike Tackles, Big Ben Won't Elude This
By Kevin Blackistone - AOL NewsUpwards of 10 times on Monday afternoon, the district attorney in the small central Georgia town where NFL superstar quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was being investigated for sexual assault chose to refer to the woman who accused Roethlisberger as "victim." The lead prosecutor for Ocmulgee County (Ga.), Fred Bright, said during his press conference that Roethlisberger went with the "victim," a 20-year-old college student, into a small bathroom in a Milledgeville, Ga., club where the two met and drank. Bright said the "victim" suffered "bruising and slight bleeding in the genital area." Yet ...
Roger Goodell Talks About Movies, Crying, and Bud Adams' Middle Finger
By Ryan Wilson - AOL NewsNFL Commissioner Roger Goodell isn't known for his sense of humor. Or his ability to smile. Or for doing much else outside of handing down fines to stifle would-be celebrators, both players and owners. But Brad Blanks caught up with Goodell at the Blind Side premiere, and the commish appeared to be in good spirits. Video proof after the jump. In addition to agreeing that Waterboy was one of his favorite football movies, Goodell also talked candidly about Titans owner Bud Adams' "double-barreled" salute to the Bills last Sunday. Having a guy with a British accent asking the questions somehow ...
Limbaugh Calls Goodell 'Total Weasel,' Would Like to Have Beer With McNabb
By Ryan Wilson - AOL NewsNFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was on the Hill Wednesday talking to Congress about "Legal Issues Relating to Football Head Injuries." So, naturally, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) used the forum as an opportunity to grill Goodell about Rush Limbaugh's interest in becoming part owner of the St. Louis Rams. Video after the jump, but here's all you need to know: After King warmly welcomed the commissioner he got right down to business. "...Your position on owners have the right image, and I would direct it to your statement on the 13th of October where you said, 'I think it's divisive comments, or they ...
Does Congress Have Time for Games? Lawmakers Say Yes and Hit the NFL Hard
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyYou know you've flunked Management 101 when an unpopular Congress lays bare the flaws in how you're running your organization. But so it went Wednesday for Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the National Football League, when he appeared before the House Judiciary Committee to discuss the long-term effects of brain injuries on current and former NFL players. Goodell is only the most recent sports honcho to be dragged in front of a congressional committee for a lecture on ethics and personal responsibility from a group of people whose own approval rating hovers near 20 percent. Beginning in ...
Rep. Maxine Waters: Yank the NFL's Antitrust Exemption
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyRep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) Wednesday called on Congress to end the National Football League's antitrust exemption, citing what she called willful ignorance by the league of the debilitating effects the game has had on players who suffered multiple, repeated concussions. She made her remarks during a House Judiciary Committee hearing, where witnesses testified about increased rates of neurological disorders among retired professional football players. The NFL is exempt from antitrust laws, which allows individual teams to act as one business in a variety of contract negotiations, to its own ...
'Non-Core' Progress Between Union, NFL At Latest CBA Meeting
By Dan Graziano - AOL NewsDeMaurice Smith didn't get what he was hoping for Tuesday, but the head of the NFL players' union did walk away from his latest meeting with NFL owners with some good reasons to feel encouraged about the state of the negotiations.Smith has said publicly that he's waiting for the owners to submit to the union a proposal for a new collective bargaining agreement, since it was the owners who opted out of the last one. That didn't happen Tuesday, as the only issues discussed in a five-hour meeting were "non-core" issues such as the drug policy and potential changes to the commissioner-controlled ...
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