By Gene Collier / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Just one more tumultuous summer separates Roger Goodell from his 10th season as NFL commissioner, but he’s already set a career record that might never be broken.
That’s the record for Most Phone Conversations That Started Essentially Like This:
“Hello … what? … wait, he what!?”
Or …
“Hello … what? … wait, they what!?
Like him or loathe him, Goodell’s near decade-long sentence of mucking through one toxic issue after the next would be perhaps unprecedented and even worthy of a decent dose of generic sympathy were it not for that $44 million salary of his.