Column: Goodell’s mea culpa is a good start - and no more
Associated PressNever thought we’d see the day when typing the words “Roger Goodell” and “daring” in the same sentence wasn’t the setup for a punchline. We, the National Football League, believe Black Lives Matter.” Not surprisingly, many of the words Goodell spoke were practically dictated by nearly 20 of the league’s black players in a video of their own released just a day earlier. In any case, the daring part comes at the end, where Goodell tacked on some of his own after consulting with only a “select few” of the league’s 32 owners. Instead, he’s fricasseed by players and fans nearly every time he ventures outside for missteps large and small, from a petty legal feud with Tom Brady over “Deflategate” all the way up to his still-inconsistent policies regarding player safety. A few years ago, several owners expressed their dissatisfaction with that part of Goodell’s job performance, telling SI.com’s Peter King they were tired of seeing “the public face of the most successful sports league in American history gets more tomatoes thrown at it than any other commissioner in the history of the NFL.” Like it or not, they better get used to it.
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