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Everything written in a promotion to sell books should be taken with a grain of salt, but there's a not-so-timely and sub-optimal passage in former ref Mike Pereira's newest book about Roger Goodell that the NFL probably doesn't appreciate.

Pereira, sampling his content skills at Deadspin, claims that Goodell "is not fond of officiating," and it led to an altercation between the two.

Goodell is not fond of officiating, regardless of what he's said in public, and he certainly didn't like dealing with officiating lockouts, which the league has had to handle twice since 2001.