Well, this one keeps getting even more interesting.
I’d assumed (ass, you, me) that the questioning of Commissioner Roger Goodell at the Ray Rice appeal hearing would be handled by Rice’s lawyer, Peter Ginsberg. Per a source with knowledge of the situation, Goodell will be questioned by NFLPA outside counsel Jeffrey Kessler.
Kessler, a longtime antagonist of the NFL, now gets a crack at tying the man who runs the sport into a verbal pretzel, with question after question after question aimed at laying traps or twisting words or simply allowing the creation of a tangled web that Kessler then will blast apart with a flamethrower.
Goodell, who isn’t a lawyer, will need to be aggressively and meticulously prepared. And Goodell needs to focus on the task like his job depends on it, because there’s a chance that his testimony will go badly enough that it does.
