Making it clear Wednesday that she had no new litigation, Allred used incidents from Marshall’s past to call for Goodell’s resignation. She also demanded the league to reexamine its investigative and disciplinary procedures.
“It’s easy just to say ‘Off with his head,’” Allred said. “And fine. Yeah, I’m in favor of (Goodell’s) resignation. But I do not think that alone will solve the problem.”
Allred was joined by Clarence Watley and Kristeena Spivey, the father and a close friend of Marshall’s former girlfriend Rasheedah Watley.
Marshall never has denied the chaos and recurring violence that plagued his relationship with Watley years ago. The NFL suspended him in August 2008 for what the it called “a pattern of conduct.” (His three-game penalty later was reduced to one.) The only criminal case involving Marshall and Watley that went to trial in 2009, ended with Marshall found not guilty of battery charges.
A subsequent civil suit Watley brought in 2012 eventually was dismissed.