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Doing the right thing is hard. Acting from a well-orchestrated script is easy. That is the world NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has been living in for ages, and now it’s finally catching up with him.Goodell loves to talk tough, loves to follow the carefully crafted spin that makes him come off like the Judge Dredd of the American sports world. He is always huffing and puffing about protecting the NFL’s precious shield, as if the most important thing in the world is the preservation of the pro football institution. From concussions to performance-enhancing drugs, from marijuana to domestic abuse, it just feels like everything he does, every punishment he doles out, every tough-guy proclamation he utters, everything with his fingerprints on it somehow feels disingenuous, contrived and without even the slightest sense of righteousness.Well, now he’s been busted.His wishy-washy, half-hearted handling of Ray Rice’s domestic violence case is taking on the air of an unflattering Nixonian mess.Now that TMZ has taken on the most unlikely role of the social conscience of American sports by exposing the true and despicable nature of Rice’s brutal assault of his wife, Goodell has been put in an uncomfortable circumstance he absolutely deserves: OK, Roger, what did you know and when did you know it?The amount of skepticism that must be overcome to believe that the most <a href=http://capstone.edu.sg/clreplicashoes.php>Christian Louboutin Outlet</a>  powerful man in pro sports did not see the Rice video until Monday morning along with the rest of us when it hit the TMZ website is overwhelming. Two of the the top NFL reporters in the country — Sports Illustrated’s Peter King and ESPN’s Chris Mortensen — have been maintaining for a while that the NFL knew of the existence of this video that showed Rice punching Janay Palmer in the face and knocking her to the ground. NFL Hall of Famer Cris Carter, an NFL analyst with ESPN, said he saw the video a while ago.No one in the NFL ever disputed these claims. But now they want you to believe that the NFL couldn’t get a copy of this video from the Atlantic City police? The league employs an extensive investigative force <a href=http://capstone.edu.sg/images/gucciusaonlineoutlet.php> cheap gucci</a>  for moments such as this. There are former FBI agents, Secret Service officers and former career police officers on the league’s security staff, and if they couldn’t get a copy of this video and TMZ could, then a lot of people at the NFL should be getting fired as we speak.I don’t buy it. I don’t believe for one minute that Goodell or the Ravens never saw this video until Monday.They are now trying to make us believe that things changed dramatically Monday. In his less-than-informative news conference Monday evening, Ravens coach John Harbaugh refused to discuss exactly what it was that changed.So now Rice is suspended indefinitely from the league, and he’s toxic to the Ravens, and we’re all scratching our heads wondering what sort of game they’re playing with us.So what do they know now that they didn’t know 24 hours ago?That’s easy. They know that their little secret — that there was a video showing Rice coldly punched out a woman he supposedly loved and left her unconscious on the floor of the elevator — is no longer a secret.So now Goodell gets tough. So now the Ravens think Rice is a pox on their house.If this video never was made public, Rice would still be playing for the Ravens, and Goodell would still be sitting around behaving as if he had sufficiently protected the almighty NFL shield.Ray Rice is a casualty not because he committed a heinous and inexcusable crime of domestic violence. It’s because the NFL can’t make this <a href=http://www.museosangennaro.com/Public/wdluk.php>Louboutin Shoes UK</a>  story go away because there is all this graphic video evidence out there that they can’t pretend doesn’t exist.If Goodell was truly a champion against domestic violence, then please explain why Carolina Panthers defensive tackle Greg Hardy is still earning a living in the NFL after being convicted of an equally disturbing crime during the summer.In case you aren’t aware, what Hardy did in the domestic abuse of his girl friend Nicole Holder is just as frightening as what we know about the Rice case. The only difference is there’s no damning video being blasted on TMZ, which means there’s no public-relations compulsion for Goodell to pull off a grandstanding punishment of Hardy. But Holder’s testimony during this trial was so disturbing, it makes you wonder why Goodell isn’t playing Judge Dredd with Hardy. According to Holder, Hardy “looked me in my eyes and he told me he was going to kill me. I was so scared I wanted to die. When he loosened his grip slightly, I said, ‘Just do it. Kill me.’”According to the court testimony, Hardy a 6-foot-4, 275-pound giant, basically threw her around like a rag doll. He threw her into a bathtub, slammed a toilet seat cover onto her arm, dragged her by her hair and tried to strangle her. Even though he was convicted in a court of law, he was on the field for Sunday’s regular-season opener against Tampa Bay.Goodell has revealed himself to be an insincere, PR-motivated tough guy. The Rice video is the latest evidence that there is good reason to question his motives in everything he does, everything he says. The way things are going now, if he says water’s wet, I’m looking for a drought.
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Greg Thomas was a 6-foot-6 wide receiver at Pacific University in the early 1980s when his own NFL dreams were dashed by a career-ending knee injury.
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He was in the stands Sunday night when his son tied ShannonВ Sharpe s franchise record for a tight end by hauling in three TD passes in Denver s 31-24 win over Indianapolis.
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Dad showed he s still got it, too.
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He made his way into the stands in the south end zone, where Thomas scored his trio of touchdowns in the second quarter.
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After the Broncos 6-foot-5, 250-pound tight end scored his first TD, his father hollered for the football.
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My dad, he s no small guy. It doesn t matter where he s at, he s easy to find, Thomas said. He makes it down to that rail somehow, some way. He s got his arms open, I give it a toss over there.  
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The throw was so low Thomas feared his father might topple over the rail.
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I threw a bad ball and he made a good catch, Thomas said. Maybe that s where I get it from.
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Growing up, he d seen those grainy beta tapes of his father <a href=http://www.cicviseu.net/page.php?sale=Jimmy-Choo-New-Perfume>Jimmy Choo New Perfume</a>  that were part instructional video, part showoff time. But Thomas didn t inherit a strong arm leave that to the Manning bloodlines so he didn t want to risk another throw again after his first toss went so awry.
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Yeah, second and third touchdowns, he was waving for me, Thomas said. I was like, I m too tired. I barely got the first one to you. I can give it to you next week if you want it.'
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Thomas size and speed, along with his power forward DNA he led Portland State to the NCAA basketball tournament twice makes him a prime target for Peyton Manning, especially near the goal line.
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He set a franchise record for tight ends with a dozen TD grabs last season, then was Manning s safety valve in wins over San Diego and New England in the playoffs.
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The Colts had no answer for Thomas, who finished with seven catches for 104 yards in the Broncos 31-24 win. His trio of touchdowns came in single coverage against two linebackers and a safety.
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Julius Thomas tries to escape a Colts defender during the first half. (credit: Evan SemГіn for CBS4)
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He s a monster. A really, really good player, Colts coach Chuck Pagano said. He is a match-up nightmare.
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Thomas first touchdown came with Jerrell Freeman draped on him. He outraced D Quell Jackson on his second score. And he juked safety LaRon Landry at the line on a 5-yard TD.
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It s like backyard football with your little brother or cousins. I don t believe you should be (successfully) covered 1-on-1, Thomas said.
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Thomas also had <a href=http://www.cicviseu.net/page.php?sale=Tory-Burch-Tory-Tunic>Tory Burch Tory Tunic</a>  a big opener a year ago, when he caught five passes for 110 yards and two TDs in a walloping of Baltimore that sent fantasy football players scrambling to their laptops to pick him up.
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After catching just one pass in his first two NFL seasons, Thomas had a breakout year last season with 65 receptions for 788 yards.
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After earning his first Pro Bowl honor, he spent time in the offseason with Tony Gonzalez to work on fine-tuning his game, especially his run-blocking.
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That work shows.
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His feel for the game is better, coach John Fox said. He s been in a lot more situations now, whether it s in <a href=http://architectscanterbury.co.uk/page.php?sale=Kate-Spade-Ereader-Cover>Kate Spade Uk Stockists</a>  the blocking element or in the passing game. He s improved and I m sure he s a lot more confident.
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He ll soon be a lot richer, too.
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He s making $645,000 this season in the final year of his rookie contract. The Broncos wanted to get long-term deals done with both Thomas and wide receiver Demaryius Thomas during training camp but failed to reach agreement with either one.
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Thomas is never one to relax, though, and he noted after his three-TD game that he needs to clean up some things. He had a second-half fumble and failed to corral an onside kick.
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Eric Decker did that for us a year ago. Julius was the backup. And so that s his first live one, Fox said. Obviously, that ll be something we work on a little bit this week.  
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Thomas might also want to work on those throws when he gets the chance.
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Notes: S David Bruton is day to day with a dislocated left shoulder, a result of a hit by Colts S Colt Anderson on a second-quarter touchback that wasn t close to being returnable. Whether you like it or not, it was a legal hit, Fox said. It s allowed in the game. I ll leave it at that.
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@@@ Doing the right thing is hard. Acting from a well-orchestrated script is easy. That is the world NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has been living in for ages, and now it’s finally catching up with him.Goodell loves to talk tough, loves to follow the carefully crafted spin that makes him come off like the Judge Dredd of the American sports world. He is always huffing and puffing about protecting the NFL’s precious shield, as if the most important thing in the world is the preservation of the pro football institution. From concussions to performance-enhancing drugs, from marijuana to domestic abuse, it just feels like everything he does, every punishment he doles out, every tough-guy proclamation he utters, everything with his fingerprints on it somehow feels disingenuous, contrived and without even the slightest sense of righteousness.Well, now he’s been busted.His wishy-washy, half-hearted handling of Ray Rice’s domestic violence case is taking on the air of an unflattering Nixonian mess.Now that TMZ has taken on the most unlikely role of the social conscience of American sports by exposing the true and despicable nature of Rice’s brutal assault of his wife, Goodell has been put in an uncomfortable circumstance he absolutely deserves: OK, Roger, what did you know and when did you know it?The amount of skepticism that must be overcome to believe that the most <a href=http://capstone.edu.sg/clreplicashoes.php>Christian Louboutin Outlet</a> powerful man in pro sports did not see the Rice video until Monday morning along with the rest of us when it hit the TMZ website is overwhelming. Two of the the top NFL reporters in the country — Sports Illustrated’s Peter King and ESPN’s Chris Mortensen — have been maintaining for a while that the NFL knew of the existence of this video that showed Rice punching Janay Palmer in the face and knocking her to the ground. NFL Hall of Famer Cris Carter, an NFL analyst with ESPN, said he saw the video a while ago.No one in the NFL ever disputed these claims. But now they want you to believe that the NFL couldn’t get a copy of this video from the Atlantic City police? The league employs an extensive investigative force <a href=http://capstone.edu.sg/images/gucciusaonlineoutlet.php> cheap gucci</a> for moments such as this. There are former FBI agents, Secret Service officers and former career police officers on the league’s security staff, and if they couldn’t get a copy of this video and TMZ could, then a lot of people at the NFL should be getting fired as we speak.I don’t buy it. I don’t believe for one minute that Goodell or the Ravens never saw this video until Monday.They are now trying to make us believe that things changed dramatically Monday. In his less-than-informative news conference Monday evening, Ravens coach John Harbaugh refused to discuss exactly what it was that changed.So now Rice is suspended indefinitely from the league, and he’s toxic to the Ravens, and we’re all scratching our heads wondering what sort of game they’re playing with us.So what do they know now that they didn’t know 24 hours ago?That’s easy. They know that their little secret — that there was a video showing Rice coldly punched out a woman he supposedly loved and left her unconscious on the floor of the elevator — is no longer a secret.So now Goodell gets tough. So now the Ravens think Rice is a pox on their house.If this video never was made public, Rice would still be playing for the Ravens, and Goodell would still be sitting around behaving as if he had sufficiently protected the almighty NFL shield.Ray Rice is a casualty not because he committed a heinous and inexcusable crime of domestic violence. It’s because the NFL can’t make this <a href=http://www.museosangennaro.com/Public/wdluk.php>Louboutin Shoes UK</a> story go away because there is all this graphic video evidence out there that they can’t pretend doesn’t exist.If Goodell was truly a champion against domestic violence, then please explain why Carolina Panthers defensive tackle Greg Hardy is still earning a living in the NFL after being convicted of an equally disturbing crime during the summer.In case you aren’t aware, what Hardy did in the domestic abuse of his girl friend Nicole Holder is just as frightening as what we know about the Rice case. The only difference is there’s no damning video being blasted on TMZ, which means there’s no public-relations compulsion for Goodell to pull off a grandstanding punishment of Hardy. But Holder’s testimony during this trial was so disturbing, it makes you wonder why Goodell isn’t playing Judge Dredd with Hardy. According to Holder, Hardy “looked me in my eyes and he told me he was going to kill me. I was so scared I wanted to die. When he loosened his grip slightly, I said, ‘Just do it. Kill me.’”According to the court testimony, Hardy a 6-foot-4, 275-pound giant, basically threw her around like a rag doll. He threw her into a bathtub, slammed a toilet seat cover onto her arm, dragged her by her hair and tried to strangle her. Even though he was convicted in a court of law, he was on the field for Sunday’s regular-season opener against Tampa Bay.Goodell has revealed himself to be an insincere, PR-motivated tough guy. The Rice video is the latest evidence that there is good reason to question his motives in everything he does, everything he says. The way things are going now, if he says water’s wet, I’m looking for a drought.

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