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Buckley: Impossible to trust Roger Goodell, NFL

I view Roger Goodell as a corporate politician who has spent much of his life in the pursuit of power. Having acquired said power, he doesn’t have a clue as to how to wield it.

Now I don’t view what I’ve just written as a personal attack on Goodell. It’s simply an observation from somebody who has been on the other side of the glass — literally, if we’re talking most National Football League press boxes — during the nine years Goodell has been commissioner of America’s most popular sport.

If you want personal, well, it’s like that old line from The Three Stooges: “Just turn on anything, you’ll get it.