Not for the NFL. Not for team owners. But specifically for the NFL commissioner.
The clock is ticking. More loudly than ever and in the face of a sweeping energy that isn’t going away. This moment — right now — is Goodell’s legacy moment. What he does in the coming months will shape how history looks back on him. And it has everything to do with Colin Kaepernick.
We should have realized this in the early morning of May 30, when a former member of Goodell’s executive staff, Joe Lockhart, dropped a significant opinion piece for CNN.