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Roger Goodell had this coming to him, this damning 17-page report that hit him like a linebacker blitzing from the blind side. The commissioner of the National Football League came up so small and weak in initially handing Ray Rice a two-game suspension that he deserved to have a former federal judge reinstate the running back and announce to the world that Goodell was full of it. The commissioner indefinitely suspended Rice in September for his violent assault on the woman who would become his wife because, he said, Rice had given him an account at odds with what appeared in the video TMZ aired of the February incident inside an Atlantic City, New Jersey, casino elevator. Goodell said Rice "misled" him in June before the first penalty was announced, and that's why he gave himself a do-over and lowered the boom. This is what former U.S. District Judge Barbara S. Jones said on page two of her ruling that freed the fired Baltimore Ravens star to resume his NFL career with any...