A little more than five months ago, in the middle of the 2017 NFL season, ESPN published a story in which the owner of your Houston Texans, Bob McNair, was quoted as having said this:
“We can’t have the inmates running the prison.”
Given the forum at which the remark was uttered, it was widely assumed that McNair was comparing NFL players to prison inmates. In his apology statement in the wake of ESPN”s story, McNair denied that was his intention, claiming that he was referring to “...the relationship between the league office and the team owners and how they have been making significant strategic decisions affecting our league without adequate input from ownership over the past few years.