Why did so many New England Patriots fan hate Roger Goodell?

Answer 1

Why do the New England Fans hate Roger Goodell? Its a complicated, and yet its not, all at the same time.

The hate for the commissioner dates back to 2007. It started with spygate, where the League found the Patriots videotaping from an illegal location. The taping was allowed, but the Patriots had the videographer on the sidelines instead of in a secured booth as prescribed in a memo sent to all teams in the preseason leading up to the 2007 regular season. Goodell and his cronys adjucated the affair and hit the Patriots with a heavy handed penalty, the loss of a first round draft pick and a million dollars in fines for Bill Belichick and the Patriots,

Goodell destroyed the spygate tapes. This caused a lot of negative feedback by others because they wondered what was on the tapes. The result of that action made it look like he was covering up what the Patriots did,

A few years later, deflate gate struck. The commish and the league investigated the issue, and in the face of all credible scientific evidence, found the Patriots guilty, suspending Tom Brady 4 games, stripping them of a 1st & 4th round draft pick, and fined the team one million dollars. The report was bogus, had no basis in scientific fact and was obviously flawed. The group that did the scientific examination, a company called Exponent, actually found nothing, but thru chicanery and deceitful scientific methods, they stated that the Patriots might have done something.

Basically it all boils down to Goodell presiding over a kangaroo court that willfully and maliciously attacked the credibility of Tom Brady and the Patriots.

Goodell sucks.