This is what happens when a league gets comfortable with camouflaging the truth. When you tell concerned mothers their sons are more liable to suffer concussions riding their bikes than playing football, maximizing profits has eclipsed common decency. Under Goodell, the NFL has lost its moral direction.

This country has provided the NFL and its franchises untold billions in public funding, untold billions in federal regulatory protection, and for that, Goodell’s league has a responsibility to be of value to the public — to not merely provide the entertainment value modern-day gladiators bring, but also social value.

And on this front, time after time, it has failed. If this were a democracy, Goodell would be voted out of office.

It’s beyond comprehension how the NFL fumbled this so badly.

Ray Rice’s NFL career may be done because of what we knew way back in February and unfortunately were able to see Monday.

But we also found out something else these past few months: Roger Goodell is not a leader of men. He’s an overpaid, tone-deaf functionary whose power now needs to be checked. He needs to go too.