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IS COMMISSIONER MONEY GOING ‘ROGER GOODELL’ ON THE NFFA?
Commentary
By R.E. Porter, Associated Web Press
One has to wonder, in these days of fear and terror, if Commissioner William D. Money hasn’t gone “Roger Goodell” on the Nashvegas Fantasy Football Association.
According to reliable NFFA sources, Money spent time with Goodell when the NFL Commissioner was in Nashvegas a few weeks ago. And last week, after he had quaffed four Touchdown Tasers™ in less than 90 minutes, Money allegedly told Devlin Redd, head bartender at the Cherry Bomb Café, that he considered Goodell his new mentor. “It was Roger this and Roger that, and how he had to crack the whip, like his precious Roger,” Redd recalled. According to the bartender, Money said Goodell had cautioned him to protect the league’s brand and specifically mentioned the Fidalgo Island Sea Hogs and 12th Avenue Bakers as franchises who were hurting the league’s image. He added that Goodell considered Triki Bobber and G.Q. Denney “worse than Al Davis.”
Sources close to Bobber confirmed that the commissioner recently had "been up Triki's butt." In fairness, it should be pointed out that Bakers' mouthpiece Faith Popcorn said Denney "had no memory of the commissioner being up his butt."
Now, in light of recent developments in which representatives of at least two NFFA franchises sought to purposely breach the security of the league’s computer system, the AWP has learned that the commissioner plans to establish a powerful competition committee to be chaired by Atlanta Smack Daddies owner Lex Dominica. The mission of the committee will be to maintain fair play in the league. Dominica was apparently selected because he is the cleanest of all the NFFA owners, which speaks volumes about the league.
The AWP also has learned that Money has instructed NFFA attorneys to explore whether or not fantasy league commissioners were given sweeping powers as part of the Homeland Securities Act.
And the suspension this week of all-star wide receiver Marvin Harrison until 2011 for his alleged involvement in human pit fights held on Fidalgo Island represents the most extreme example of the commissioner's recent muscle flexing.
All of which causes this observer to wonder if Commissioner Money is out of control. And the answer would appear to be a resounding yes.
R.E. Porter is senior NFFA writer for the Associated Web Press.