“The same mistakes can never be repeated,” he said, adding, “We will get our house in order first.”
Goodell said teams and league staff will join education sessions about domestic violence starting in the next month. The programs will be “developed by a top group of experts,” he said.
He added the league realizes that domestic violence “affects all of us” across a spectrum of race and class. “We can act and we will do more,” he said, adding the league will partner with the National Domestic Violence Hotline, and a sex abuse hotline.
There will also be changes to the personal conduct policy, he said, adding “nothing is off the table.” The goal will be to complete changes to the policy by the Super Bowl
This press conference stems from the furor that erupted when a gossip website obtained elevator video showing Rice cold cocking his then-fiancee in the face, knocking her out cold. He dragged her body down the hall and to their room. Rice had been suspended two games in July before the full video surfaced; when it was revealed, he was cut from the Ravens and indefinitely suspended from the league.