July 28th, 2008
National Football League Blogcast, NFL Blogcast
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was at Buffalo Bills training camp in Rochester today to meet with Bills owner Ralph Wilson and New York State Senator Chuck Schumer. The Commissioner discussed a number of topics including the Bills in Toronto this season, Marshawn Lynch’s offseason traffic incident and Brett Favre’s “unretirement” […]
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February 1st, 2008
Blogging the National Football League, Blogging the NFL
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell delivered his annual “State of the NFL” address (aka the Super Bowl press conference) today and was questioned on a wide variety of subjects from NFL International to concussions, steroids and player conduct (among others). The first and most prolific topic of conversation was […]
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October 12th, 2007
Blogging the National Football League, Blogging the NFL
Green Bay Packers WR Koren Robinson has petitioned for reinstatement following a one-year suspension and is eligible to return to the NFL next week — Wednesday, October 17 to be exact. And I hope Commissioner Goodell grants that request.
Koren has had his share of alcohol-related problems since […]
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September 13th, 2007
Blogging the National Football League, Blogging the NFL
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell had a busy day today. I’ll get right to the specifics. For the New England Patriots‘ illegal videotaping incident I initially mentioned a couple days ago, Commissioner Goodell fined head coach Bill Belichick half a million dollars (the league max under their Constitution and […]
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June 27th, 2007
Blogging the National Football League, Blogging the NFL
Here’s the transcript from Commissioner Goodell’s press conference at the annual NFL Rookie Symposium in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
How the Symposium has lasted this long and the concern about players in their first year.
COMMISSIONER: The focus for us is how do we make these guys better men. What […]
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May 27th, 2007
I was watching Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel on HBO the other night and there was a segment on post-concussion syndrome in the NFL (Episode 122, Story 1, Head On) that caught my attention. The preview at HBO.com read:
In the violent world of the NFL, helmet-crushing hits that sometimes cause concussions are commonplace. Research […]
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May 21st, 2007
The annual NFL Spring Meeting will be held at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee tomorrow. The agenda for the one-day business meeting includes a vote on the awarding of Super Bowl XLV in 2011. The finalists are Arizona, Indianapolis and North Texas. I’m pulling for Indy because I fell in love with the […]
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May 18th, 2007
I feel like I could start a blog entitled “CSI:NFL” with all the negative media the National Football League has received recently and the efforts with which Commissioner Goodell has taken to solve the problems. But sometimes a negative story has a positive ending, as will hopefully be the case with Chicago Bears defensive tackle […]
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May 14th, 2007
It will be at least one more week before Commissioner Goodell makes a final decision on Pacman Jones’ fate for the 2007 season. The Commissioner will review the briefs that Pacman’s lawyers are still finalizing — those documents that sum up the legal points and testimony from last Friday’s appeal hearing — and then decide […]
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April 3rd, 2007
As scheduled, Commissioner Roger Goodell met with NFL bad boys Pacman Jones and Chris Henry today. There was really no news to report from the proceedings — no punishments were announced — but in its wake, news of a Player Advisory Committee surfaced. Commissioner Goodell and the NFL Players Association recently decided to form this […]
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