I don't understand the preoccupation with the whole Goodell/NFL angle to this story. The NFL is a business and they grasped at their initial hope was to try the damage control route and minimize the whole thing.
Cynical? Yes. Parthetic? Yes. Delusional to hope the video won't show up on the Web? For sure. But that's pretty standard operating procedure for businesses, politicians and anyone else in the public eye these days.
To me all the fuss over the NFL's actions is badly misdirecting the outrage form where it actually belongs - the fact that the State agreed to plead him down to basically nothing! It is that prosecutor who ought to get the ax before anyone elses job is on the line. The next point of outrage should be the actual laws that even leave the option for charges to be dropped when indisputable evidence is already discovered.
These are the problems which should be debated before anyone gets around to talking abut the NFL's discipline policy.
