hall of famer fran tarkenton called the news conference a whitewash. >> fans love this game. i love this game. we love the players who play the game. but they have got to show outrage. they've got to yell and scream at their teams and say you've got to do better. >> reporter: fans reacted on social media. one wrote roger goodell's speech was to owners, not the nfl fans. and another, i'll believe it when i see it. today, outside the baltimore ravens stadium thousands made a statement of their own trading in their ray rice jerseys. >> he came to me first and said, oh, man, now i have to -- i can't wear my ray rice jerseys anymore. >> reporter: in spite of blistering scrutiny, goodell said he would not step down. >> i believe i have the support of the owners. that has been clear to me. they obviously expect us to do a better job. and as i said to several, i don't like to let down anybody. >> reporter: roger goodell said that earlier today every nfl team received information about advocacy and support organizations in their communities focused on domestic violence and sexual assa

here with reaction, quarterback fran tarkenton, former player bill goldberg. good to see you both. sure we all had the same reaction, fran, shock at the entire incident. roger goodell said he asked to see the video but wasn't given an opportunity to see it. what's your reaction? what should the penalty be? >> well, it should be what -- he should be banned from football, be cut from baltimore ravens. >> for life? >> for life. more women lose their life from domestic violence than any disease. this is a horrible thing. i only question you know by seeing the video before yesterday or today that he punched her out in the elevator because she's unconscious. he's dragging her out of the elevator. how else was she knocked out? they're the only two in the elevator. i think the nfl has got to get ahead of these situations. we got ray mcdonnell out in san francisco. he played last week. should he have played? i don't think so. >> what about what his wife said? leave us alone? what about she was the then-fiancee, she forgave him, she move on, she married him. they had a fight, she spat at him,

we're talking with nfl hall of famer fran tarkenton. e chairman and founder of one more customer.com. fran, right before that break, i mentioned this poll. almost 90% of people in a new nbc university poll say they have not cut back on how much they watch the nfl. only 11% say they are less likely to watch. what's your reaction to this? and do fans need to take a stand? >> well, people are not going to stop watching football. i mean, it's the most watched sport in the world. it's growing. it's fun. it's great entertainment. but that's not the point. if these owners who say they want to do the right thing, the only way to stop domestic violence among the players that are playing today is to ban them from the league. the baltimore ravens got it right. they took to their star running back ray rice and cut him from the team. he is not allowed to play for the baltimore ravens ever again. that's the type of leadership we need. that's the type of action we need. if we had zero tolerance for domestic violence, and we should, then we should not l

as some of the questions at the press conference made it clear and as fran tarkenton just illustrated, it's a mishmash. others convicted, still playing. where do you begin? >> the press conference was an elaborate exercise in kicking the can down the road. he said, we made a mistake and we'll have a policy in place maybe by the super bowl. it wasn't clear to me whether the policy will be in place by the super bowl or the committee will be in place by the super bowl. >> by the super bowl? >> yeah. >> by the super bowl? that's a fairly long way away. >> the season just started. >> it means like next season. >> let me point out one thing. i think one of his strategies was sort of a soul-killing dullness in not responding -- except to say that there were mistakes made in the past. one question that was asked was about ray mcdonald. ray mcdonald is a player on the san francisco 49ers who has been arrested for domestic violence but not yet charged in the legal system. he's still playing. >> right. >> he's the only one -- adrian peterson is not playing. ray rice is not playing. but he is sti

charges that he recklessly injured his 4-year-old son while disciplining him, vikings hall of famer fran tarkenton said he was embarrassed by the team's decision to allow peterson to resume playing. >> we're trying to do the right thing. >> reporter: hours after its logo appeared behind the vikings general manager, radisson suspended its sponsorship of the team. first sign of erosion from the corporate sponsor spending 1 billion a year. even budweiser said we're not yet satisfied with the league's handling of matters. the league's response, we're taking action. >> the nfl is like an aircraft carrier hitting a mine. yes, it blows a hole in the hull, but it keeps on sailing and in a few months you won't even notice that the hole was there. >> reporter: days after cbs sports yanked a rihanna song from its nfl product cast opting for a more serious opening, the singer blasted the network tweeting, you all are sad for penalizing me for this. cbs has pulled rihanna's song permanently. the nfl deciding the best defense is a good offense. today they drafted cynthia hogan, a former aid to then senator joe

here's fran tarkenton, one of the guys you and i watched play football when you and i were coming up. he's angry as a hornet over this. he called it a whitewash. he advised nfl fans today not to go to the games. what are we to do with that? how do we process his remarks? >> well, i'm pretty sure most of the people will use their tickets. football is overwhelmingly popular, its credibility and its administration's credibility has been badly damaged. i don't know that that directly and immediately translates into the popularity of the game either at the gate or on television. >> well, do you buy that the argument that goodell today what he did, what he said was too little too late? >> well, a number of people seem to have taken exception to the tone that there wasn't enough outrage and it wasn't personal enough for their taste. and a lot of people given the way this thing has boiled over in the media over the last couple of weeks, they want specific action and they want it now. and i don't think the super bowl is soon enough. so goodell ought to take that message from the reaction and g

yesterday i participated in a short dialogue with fran tarkenton and what about the current nfl players? do you think we have heard enough condemnation from them of the problems that now afflict the nfl? >> there are a few bold individuals, bold souls who have spoken out about it. whether it's through social media, which is better than nothing. i have spoken to a lot of players who are greatly unhappy with not only commissioner goodell's handling of this incident, just using the ray rice as an example. that situation. but they're also unhappy that they have to be associated with that type of player now. they're unhappy about those individuals. i have to remind everyone, that's the few who do wrong and give everyone a bad name. current players and former players. i think the one thing that's getting lost in all of this is that the nfl players are being villainized and i think everyone needs to know that in every nfl locker room, 53 men on a rossro, there might be one despicable person. there may be ten jerks, but the rest of those guys on that team which is the majority on an individual

let's listen to hall of famer fran tarkenton calling for a boycott.letters, e-mails, and stop going to games. again, roger goodell getting fired is not going to solve the problem. the problem is going to be solved by 32 owners who control the national football league. >> ratings have been sky high since this all started. do you expect that a boycott is even possible? will that happen? >> well, the one thing we learned from opinion polls and everybody else is that in the middle of the week you can be significantly concerned with your social issues but everybody loves their football and that's not going to change. an $8 billion allocation from television, if you got a collect and you're an owner for $152 million in your mail box just from television alone, annually, you think twice about making changes. but this is now a watershed time. this is now the press conference was a call for action in a corporate environment where society's got to deal with these issues as well. so, i'm saying let's reserve judgment until the super bowl, that's the commissioner

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