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| Goodrow and Trump in happier times at Bedminster. |
By Ariel Mutha-Tafoya
FSN Sports
President Donald Trump has issued a full, preemptive pardon on behalf of Village Green owner Dave Goodrow, FSN has learned. The action came on Friday afternoon and was announced just before the platform permanently suspended Trump’s account.
“Even though he disloyally stole the GREAT football Team I built for him, I hereby pardon Dave Goodrow from any federal offense he may have committed,” Trump wrote. “This is in the best interest of my League.”
Although Goodrow currently faces no federal charges, Justice Department sources confirmed that federal prosecutors had been building a racketeering case against the troubled NFFA owner involving his prolific trafficking in pornography.
Goodrow also faces charges in Nashville for public indecency stemming from videos of him dancing nude as part of protests in Sylvan Park last summer against the initial refusal of the NFFA franchise then known as the Dead Cherokees to change their name. Through his attorney, Robin Banks, Goodrow maintains that he was merely taking part in a Native American dance ritual that is protected as a form of religious expression. Trump’s pardon will not affect the local charges.
Banks refused to confirm or deny persistent rumors that Goodrow holds the so-called “pee-pee tape,” which allegedly shows Trump paying prostitutes to urinate on a bed in a Moscow hotel, along with other incriminating information. She denied a published report that Goodrow had a deal to write a memoir of his time in football with Trump that was to be titled Orange and Green.
Goodrow could not be reached for comment.
In other NFFA News:
• The search for Dr. Jorgé Linardo continued this week. The league’s founder and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, who disappeared on December 25, was last seen inside the NFFA Tower an hour before the building was heavily damaged in the Christmas suicide bomb explosion. Nashville police say they have no leads at this time into Linardo’s whereabouts.
• Dave the Animal, owner of the NFFA-champion Cambridge Animals, announced a plan Friday for next year’s Dead Lombardi Trophy winner to be decided through “trial by combat.” In a phone interview, DTA said, “It’s the simplest and fairest way, and also the way that virtually ensures a repeat championship by the Animals.” The Cambridge owner, who said he got the idea from watching a Rudy Giuliani speech while under house arrest ordered by his son Wilder, said he could unilaterally impose this new format by invoking what he described as a “little-known league rule known as Champion’s Choice.”
