#NFLVideos: Goodell on why Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are great for the NFL, and first Las Vegas Super Bowl

Goodell on why Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are great for the NFL, and first Las Vegas Super Bowl

The next day I got to the office and we went down and they asked me to come down to the cafeteria and I did and they handed me a football my name was on it already and I looked at that and that blew me away oh that just blew me away I

Just when I when I saw that that was that was my holy moment now are all 32 are we allowed to say that on this oh yeah yeah yeah you’re good you’re good damn right so Thank you for tuning in I’m pman and this is the NFL players second a podcast and with me as always I got this guy over here he’s nothing without me but he’s better with me what’s up baby Roman Harper that’s my guy I agree with you I

Agree I totally agree with you um first and foremost let me just go ahead and say this now cuz I don’t know if we want to start over or we’re going to keep this thing rolling I want to thank all of our listeners our viewers out there

Give us a festar rting wherever you pick up your podcast whether it’s Apple podcast iHeart Radio wherever you listen to tell a friend to tell a friend to tell a friend give us a fivar rating give us a review click that like button and a follow go ahead peanut all right

I’ve never read a resume like this before so it’s a lot it’s not the typical resume so we’ve not had a guest like this we’ve never had a guest like this so uh three star athlete football baseball basketball from the Bronx in New York uh he was named athlete of the

Year his senior year recruited by several colleges to play football he had uh uh an injury that ended that um he would eventually take a different route to the NFL he was an intern to chief executive and now he is probably the commissioner to the most popular sport

In the world no probably ladies and gentlemen the commissioner Roger Goodell come on thank you that I’ve and you and he got like this he’s got this Bruce Wayne swag kind of going turtleneck it’s beautiful like he just I knew I shouldn’t have worn he’s got the foot up

Like he just like I like okay A little little Bruce Wayne you know I I’m feeling it though I like it like it’s beautiful we were just having our little jibber jabber now I I love it I I don’t even know if I’ve seen the commission

I’m G to play this for my wife she she’s going to love hearing this from you too your kids are going to love it too all we need is a all we need is a fire like right there you know what I mean let me get a little fire going right there it

Be perfect uh kamish I got to be got to be honest with you so nobody knew who you were up until you were the commissioner of the NFL uh could you maybe talk us and just kind of take us through that whole process of how you became the man and also maybe

Talk about how as former players I don’t think anybody knew you until you became the guy and you kind of came out of nowhere and now that you’ve been here 18 years as commissioner 42 years in the NFL there it is this is 42 seasons for

Me um I’m bad at math when was your first year in the league 82 okay 8 I was trying to like I ain’t even GNA do that you covered J I’m better with you um but it was 82 it was actually the year the players went on strike my

Internship was four months long and players went on strike I think it was two and a half months uh it was a really difficult time for the NFL overall fans but for you know for a young kid who’s just starting an internship at four months I figured this is going to be the

End of all for me you know I don’t only it literally was running errands and doing different things did you think the NFL would last I don’t mean to cut you off but I’m so listen I I fell in love with the NFL in football when I was I

Don’t as young as I can remember honestly um it just it was a sport that I love to play it’s a sport that I think teaches so much about life I think so many of the lessons I learned through playing are lessons that I use every day

In my job um but I also I had you know an incredible opportunity to get to know a lot of players like one of my jobs when I was really young was actually recruiting players out of college to come to the NFL because they had a

Choice to go to the usfl or the NFL oh yeah you had Choice Jerry Rice is one of my great recruits I tell Jerry all the time i’ take full credit for your career uh but no I used to spend time talking to the guys about you know the benefits

That come into the NFL and um I worked closely with Gil brand in that love Gil I got to work uh I got to work with a lot of great people and a lot of great opportunities I went Pete Roselle was a hero of mine um who was a commissioner

Then I worked on Pro bowls I worked on International I worked on expansion I just had a lot of great opportunities ities that people gave me supported me and had a chance to sort of prove myself so I I was well known in the NFL I was

Not well known publicly for sure I had um I worked for the Jets for a year actually as an intern again okay back in 1984 and I still stay in touch with a lot of those players they’re um that was a great experience for me so I I just

Been really fortunate and as you say uh the NFL is is an institution that I think people really admire respect and love they do I think we have an influence in the world much less our country and our communities and I I’m proud to be part of that I heard this

Rumor too tell me this how close were you to actually taking a coaching job with the Jets uh you you did your work I tell you what no you know is uh it was the defensive coordinator at the Jets was Joe gardy at the time uhhuh and uh when

My internship ended which was really just from really just beginning of the season to the end of the season then I was supposed to go back to the NFL he said would you stay here and be a defensive assistant and I really thought about it

Because I love the game yes but I don’t know did I make the right choice I’m not sure I would say I would say yeah you think right I would I would say what position would yeah that’s what I that was my question like what how did he

Even know you could coach I don’t think he did I know I think a defensive assistant that probably means I was you know copying the game plans and you know doing all the dirty work so but it gives you a chance to see are you a coach

Right so that was listen I was young into it I was doing everything you you could ask me to do anything and I would have done it okay I was just I was just trying to get my foot in the door stay in the door yeah and learn and and and I

Thought that would be a great experience but you know once you go down that track you don’t get out you don’t get out I’ve always dreamed of and I wrote it in college uh to my dad when I graduated I Saidi wanted two things I want to make

You proud and I want to be commissioner of the NFL and I wrote that in college when I graduated so I said well let’s stick with the plan let’s go I should have did that I was just like I want to play I I was like I want to

Get yeah I had to I didn’t I should put that in the universe other side that’s what I got to tell my kid like don’t be an athlete just run the league but I wanted to do what you did I just wasn’t good enough so I think us as former players

We all have that story of that moment where we got hit or something happened and it lets you know that you were in the NFL I’m so curious to know as a I guess the commissioner as an executive what was your welcome to the NFL moment I

Mean clearly it wasn’t a hit or anything like but what was you’re like holy holy I’m the commissioner the NFL and I have to deal with this when I became commissioner yeah when you became commissioner like what was that like oh my God you know you know the first time

It hit me um so it actually happened in Chicago that’s where the league meeting was and my wife’s family’s from Chicago so we were there and um it was a grueling process it was four months and it was it was rough and you know it was overwhelming Dan Rooney came to my room

Knocked on the door and said commissioner put his hand out and when I when I when he said that I I I really didn’t know how to react it was it was really overwhelming cuz Dan Rooney was one of those I talk to him every day

Yeah um Dan was one of those mentors for me and you got to have a lot of mentors and he was one of them and then everything the circus went you know press and everything else but the next day I got to the office and we went down

And they asked me to come down to the cafeteria and I did and they handed me a football my name was on it already and I looked looked at that and that blew me away oh that just blew me away I just when I when I saw that that was that was

My holy moment now are all 32 are we allowed to say that on this oh yeah yeah yeah you’re good you’re good damn right so another follow-up question would be what what’s the interview like is it like all 32 or 29 owners or like do they

Say hey uh what do you think the success of the league will be in the next 10 years or do you do like a business plan or so yes you you know it’s a it’s a time really where um they set the process you just you have to comply so I

I forgot what they were there were there were hundreds if not thousands of people that expressed and they there were politicians or all kinds of other things and I was Chief Operating Officer at the time uh so people said well aren’t you the logical candidate I said no not in

The NFL I said you got to you got to earn it and you know hopefully my my experience experience was helpful but this process is was really it was grueling and that you had to meet with owners individually um we had a two-day period where you had to meet with groups

Of eight owners and they would just fire questions at you U and it was it was all about what do you think of this what do you think of the future where do you where do you think we should go where what’s good about the game what’s bad

About the game uh what do you think you would do as commissioner and it it had I had to prepare for that right I had to think about that to reflect on why I thought I was qualified to be the commissioner but also what my plan was

Cuz I was you know Paul talo was a great commissioner he he gave me great opportunities and I had to sort of chart a different course and that was hard because I I didn’t want to be disloyal but I also felt like you know it’s a different time right you have to you

Have to lead differently and you have to probably do things differently in a lot of areas and uh then the vote came down down it was it was a really a once that final meeting happened it was a it was two rough days in Chicago and then they

Announced it now listen to you talk uh it number one do you ever think you’re ready right to be the guy like that’s really hard to imagine uh with all the responsibility how big the NFL was imagining how how great Paul tagu is like I have a

Football with his name on it and I kept it for that reason and then also I’m surprised that you’re welcome to the NFL moment was not in 2006 my rookie year same as your first year as commissioner right at New Orleans first game back in the Super Dome versus Atlanta where well

You I I that was the first time I actually got to meet you I actually remember this that was like a big celebration because as former players we’re all taught to kind of dislike you and now that I’m not a player anym it’s kind of cool like you know actually

Rogers grel is trying to come kind of cool and he actually is rooting for all the players I wasn’t taught to dislike you they just I guess it’s in New Orleans I got to tell you that was one of the most memorable moments okay it wasn’t my wow commissioner in the NFL so

I I would that was clearly I mean when that return came it was that place just exploded it it was rocking the energy it was my first time in the place I didn’t understand it it was tears people were crying it was a lot of I didn’t understand it because I just

Got there but being there I’m so thankful for it well and for me you know one of the first things I did and and Paul’s deserves the credit is the leadership we were intent under his leadership to make sure the team got back to New Orleans and played in that

Dome and it there were a lot of dark days and a lot of difficult days for the people of New Orleans um not just the Saints but that was a moment where there were many but there was one of the moments where I realized the impact the

NFL could have it really lifted an entire Community up to see that that was a symbol of recovery right that was that was it’s going to be okay uh and I think the same thing was true with 9/11 I think I think the NFL played a leadership role position that of when we

Were going to play how long did you uh mourn the terrible circumstances that we all were facing and the loss and the NFL did it right yeah and and led so I realized during a lot of those experiences that the NFL could play a valuable role in our communities much

Less our world you know what talking about an impact on the world Taylor Swift all right let’s let’s talk about it all right let’s get this all out I can’t wait all right Taylor Swift the impact that she and dating Travis Kelce has had on not only the NFL the news the

The the the left I mean the haircut people yeah people can’t stop talking about it like it is become its old deal could you maybe talk about how that has like what has that done for the NFL and how much you guys leaning into it how

Much are you not um or you don’t have any control over at all it’s just a thing well you know everyone teases me about the script that was not in the script that was not in the script I was going to walk you down that that b you were trying to give

Me yeah no so we met she actually going back to New Orleans after uh they won the Super Bowl she was our kickoff performer okay and we have two little girls twin girls and they were at that time I think five and so we got to meet

Her and um so we’ve known the family and they’re huge football fans uh they love the game so we knew about our love of football obviously it’s great to see two people the swifties don’t understand that the Swifty think they’re in a totally different Lane and they just

Come like they should know that swi at home too but my my swifties are football fans too but you know what I mean yeah but no you’re right about that they don’t and I think it’s been sort of like two worlds colliding yes completely and it’s it’s it’s been a good thing

Because I think people are starting to understand the different worlds it’s been great for the game and she brought her fan base to absolutely to league and it’s I’m sure I don’t know what the numbers look like but I’m sure the numbers are you know it’s hard to it’s hard to say

You know is it this kind of difference in the ratings but what it does is it’s it’s new fans that are experiencing our game and following it in some way whether it’s watching a game on television or following it on social or however you want to engage that’s great

For us and so we’re not obviously the best thing about this is they two people who I I think the world of both of them and they’re great and they seem really happy and they’re having fun so great what do you think about all the negativity the the people that come from

This negative thing that’s like oh well Taylor too much they’re doing and it’s like how do you address that or do you even address it like you don’t even pay attention to listen I think the the production is really up to our Network Partners so when they show they don’t

You know it it to me they do a great job um I get that but you know when a hardcore fans come to watch the football game they don’t want any distractions right but it’s it’s part of our game right it’s part of it’s part of what we

Do right bring people together and it when you have 200 million plus fans not everyone’s going to be happy with everything I promise you they’re going to get pissed about something and you try to minimize that but I always say every day I I’m I know I’m going to

Piss somebody off I just try not to piss off more than 24 owners at one time you do get a lot of boo I know you lean into it yeah you do that ear you know introduced me to the draft food was David Stern and I remember him saying

You haven’t you haven’t been introduced to the draft boo yet and I said what are you talking about and so he used to get booed at the draft and that’s where I guess it started I don’t know but when we had our the labor stoppage in 2011 that’s when

It happened the the first that first draft it could have knocked me over we were at Radio City and when they started boo I’m serious it almost knocked me back it was that it was that powerful I was expecting a good reaction believe me yeah uh when I say good strong uh but

That one really was powerful it’s like y’all going into Atlanta or me going into Green Bay all the booze people boo go B so you get it a ATA I love it because I think it’s listen fans that’s what they supposed to do right they you

Know we teach them to be loyal and passionate about their teams go for it so Super Bowl matchup 49ers Chiefs are you allowed to pick a team do you have a team being a commissioner is that a conflict of interest you know the Chiefs are in it

Don’t even give them that out the Chiefs the chief stop right there I’m sorry stop right there don’t give him the out you who are you going for the Chiefs are the 49ers yes don’t give them Chiefs are back four times in 50 five years I I

Listen this is the truth because I I just love a game as a commissioner honestly what you do is you you root for the team that’s behind you root for good officiating and most importantly you root for players to be safe oh that’s good advice when I’m when I’m watching a

Game those are the three things on my mind and when I’m watching at home which our our team hates when I’m watching home because I write notes I got two or three pages of notes I’m listening to what the commentators say I think that matters I’m looking at everything and

Trying to you know make sure our game’s being presented the best way and that we can do things to improve so I watch it differently but I’m I’m an incredible fan like I’ll sit there I’m I’ll watch football on Friday nights I go to games high school games mid youth

Games college games NFL game I I I love the game I watch as much football as probably anybody other than John mat he was the one that always watched more football than I couldn’t keep up he watched every single game and he that’s one of the great values he had for me

For 10 years when he quit broadcasting he was a consultant for us oh and whenever I had a question about yeah what happened or football or some TR he he would either have called me or I would call him and he knew about it he remember the play and he called it up

And sitting there watching in his I can’t even call it a home he basically had a warehouse with all the screens up there where people move that game to the main screen and he had an engineer was doing it it was incredible it the most it was most fun I’ve had watching the

Football game what’s one of the things that you seen at home while you’ve been taking notes that say you didn’t really agree with that you’ve taken to the the network that they’ve changed well I think one that we we spend a lot of time on is is officiating

Um it’s a it’s huge you know we always work to try to bring technology and we always try to figure out how we improve um I think the officials do a great job but you know you know the speed of the game so fast and Commish the thing is is

That we know the speed of the game right the average fan does not understand how big how fast this game is and how violent it is like they have no idea absolutely and they also don’t understand how hard it is to make those decisions you have to make them on the

Field as a player yes they have to make them on what’s the call try and you can’t you you know if it’s 3 second all cheating we’re all trying to get Advantage well I wouldn’t let say you’re all cheating but you are trying to get

An advantage but you know I and I made this point earlier this week and and I’ve said it since that Kansas City Buffalo game they got the call right when the Chiefs player was off sides yeah there was no doubt about it yeah and if you don’t call that the

Bills are going to be pissed off rightfully so right that it was a big play but they were all pissed at the officials and the officials get it right and they get it right vast majority of time when they don’t we try to use that

Technology to try to see how can we we fix that and you know that’s something that we’ve gotten more and more into and using replay expedited replays looking at the expanded a little bit further that’s something that we continue to to look at and we will as well as training

Them and trying to see what we can do to improve their ability but they’re humans right they’re they’re going to make an error so do they get Penal for you need to literally that’s a question but go to what we were not going to talk about to him you have to

Ask this question in the football oh yeah okay I’ll I’ll pivot back to that yeah so the the show is the NFL player second ax podcast right so and eventually you hurt your your knee or you you got injured your second or I’m sorry your freshman year um how was

That experience for you when you had that injury what were you feeling and then not only after that like how did you transition into your second act so um when I had that injury it was 1977 the spring before I went to college right U pit had just won the National

Championship with Johnny Majors but he retired Jackie Cheryl came over so I had talked to Jackie Sheryl a lot about coming to pit but um orthoscopic surgery was just coming out literally it was I think it was on the cover Sports Illustrated I just wasn’t I I I didn’t

Trust it yet honestly um and I just said to myself at that time I I I think I want to go different path maybe this happened for a reason and I wanted to go I wasn’t a great student I’ll just be honest with you I was that was not my

Highlight throughout my high school years huh you fooled me no I was I did not I check I made a resume a did I did I did well in college because I had to I had to like I never you that old thing he didn’t apply himself I didn’t apply

Myself but I have four brothers I’m one of five boys in seven years oh yeah and they were all smart and they were all you know going to Great college and you know I was thinking about playing football and you know um I just felt like I needed sort apply myself and sort

Of set buckle down and say you know what you got to prove yourself in the classroom and I I really did feel strongly about pursuing career in the NFL I I just I felt something about the commissioner’s role and the importance of it and what p brael and how he did it

And that was always a dream of mine I I think saying you’re going to be commissioner when there’s I think there’s been eight of us since the start of the leag so there’s been three of us since 1960 yeah so so were there any struggles though I know you see and

There’s the statistics to show that when a lot of us retire there’s a phase where we have like a struggle period or there’s a uh a transitional period was that was your did you have a smooth transition after you had your injury um well I went to college um close to pit I

It was Washington Jefferson was about an hour south of there um I missed the game a lot right and I and it was it was hard but I I was so trying so hard to be a student and all I did was study yeah um

And I just felt like I needed to do that I thought about coming back and playing at WJ for sophomore SE junior year and I just felt like you know what it’s it’s past I got to go forward and I just kept moving um I do think life is about

Transitions and I think that’s true for whether you’re transitioning into the game out of the game into a new career I think you know you you always have to be looking forward and and planning for that you’re a great example of that you are always talking about what you going

To do when the game is over right and that’s you know you have to start thinking about that and it’s hard for we talk about the morning of the draft with all the draft eligible players that come in and we talk about that and it’s hard they haven’t even been drafted yet and

We’re sitting there talking about you know think about right you gotta you got to think about you know off the field you got to think about how you transition how you continue to look at what you’re going to do beyond your playing days hard for a young man at

That stage to think about that all right so this is a personal question and Thomas probably look at me crazy because I’m going to ask it all right if you you just said it’s you and what it’s eight Commissioners all time I think that’s

What it is yeah you guys all in the in a you close the door behind you who’s walking out you look like Steve Jobs AKA Batman like who’s walking out everybody’s in the best shape I didn’t know I didn’t know I didn’t know Paul tag has some sides say

I think I can take I think I can take tags I see but see I didn’t they the only other two Commissioners Pete and Paul that I knew um I think I could get them both there you go I think you can take Adam Silver too on basketball I

Think you I think you got Adam Silver too he’s tall and skinny you guys I think I think I can get him so yeah I feel good about that all right so tell me this so how how do you feel about um I Know This Much I won’t lose because I

Didn’t try hard I’ll go down like if I lose he ain’t like it you know what I mean um I don’t like to lose um how do you think the league is doing in providing support for its former players I I know it’s been a big shift

In that uh under your watch it’s been a lot of uh whether it’s uh you know negotiations whatever it is you guys I’ve seen a big change from when I was playing to what the players complained about to where it is now post career I think you guys are doing an awesome job

I mean it’s more things available now for former players than it’s ever been at any point in time for former players and will and how has that been under your watch is it a concern thing and then how do you guys continue to push it further and continue to let that grow

Well I appreciate you saying because it has been a lot of work by current players uh the union our ownership um and former players you know I met before we did our last Collective argument um with I think it was 20 gold jackets uh and went to Canton just to

Talk about that issue what are the priorities what are the issues pretty much pension was the number one priority that was Universal everyone had a two three and four and sometimes they were different and we tried to address those but again it goes to the point of um recognizing that those former players

You know they help build what we’re all sharing in no doubt and and everybody’s going to be a former player if you and I said that in many of the negotiations all of you have that in common you will be a former player one day and it’s

Really important for us to provide the opportunities to the point you were talking about before for transition how how to make that transition successfully financials part of it but is as you know most of the former players I talk to and I talk to a lot they say it’s not really

The money it’s not really the fame it’s that locker room yeah it’s that support right you don’t you don’t have that structure as much well I’ve never been to a doctor in like until you didn’t have to yeah yeah yeah you had plenty of medical attention right all these things

All of that and and I think and particularly when that’s put off for so long right our kids are going through that now transitioning out of college I think it’s a you know they’re having to learn that right now right you guys didn’t have to worry about that until

You were over 30 35 and so I think all of us um focus on trying to provide the benefits we’ve expanded the benefits yes one of the challenges honestly is making sure that the former players can access those there’s so many programs it becomes overwhelming uh and trying to

Get them to understand where you access right having everything in one spot exactly essentially located so you can get to it right and and you know there are different laws from different states too that you know you have to you have to figure but it’s also um just trying

To keep them part of the game ultimately you know we we really push with our teams to have stronger um homecoming weekends alumni weekends and have a better relationship free agencies made that a little harder yeah because uh but I I just I think it’s really important

For us to make sure we recognize the importance of what they do and and we we assist and then you have one other issue which you guys know a lot of our former players are incredibly proud and don’t want to ask for help that’s I’m glad you

Mentioned that I would agree with you wholeheartedly I think this is how we’re we’re built it is you’re Absol I think from the time you’re a young child it’s you get injured but it’s like good okay get back in there and go it’s good to a certain point good to

An extent but at some point you have to hey uh Commish I I need some help I’ve been struggling with particularly in mental health yeah we’re we’re we’re doing more and more in that area um and I think that’s with active players with all our Personnel I think we’ve you know

We have done such a great job on what we call physical health if you want to look at it that way yes I think the care in the NFL is better than it’s ever been and I think it’s extraordinary um but I think the mental health is something that we all got to

Continue to focus on and try to to help players through that and give them the door to walk through to sort of say I need assistance yes yeah we all do at times I mean that’s it’s not a weakness and I think the Macho part of it is is

Hard right right right and does that mean he’s weak does that mean he’s not going to show up in the fourth quarter I think we we’re we’re changing the culture on that uh I that that doesn’t that’s not a weakness right it’s actually a strength strength most definitely I think it’s super important

And I don’t want to cut you off peut but you know I think the most important call I’ve had in this 2024 year is to call the benefits department and say I I want to go see counseling just to see I’m not crazy right you know like I’m not that

Thrown off I I do just want to talk to somebody else and I think that is okay it’s healthy why you call me I’d have picked up but you’re not going to tell me what I need to hear right it’s like you going to tell me what I want to hear

And it’s really important to sometimes the most important conversation you have is the one you have with yourself absolutely right and and so understanding that having some self-realization I think that’s real I appreciate you understanding that especially for us players how important that is and making sure that the the

People on top know that hey we need to allow these guys to access this to be a part of their lives well you know how much respect I have for a players I um the things that are some of our players have overcome in their life and the the

Journeys that they’ve been on I think it’s one of the things that are so great about the draft is because they get to know these players as as young men and their journey and how they got to where they are and some of the stories are um they’re inspiring they’re difficult but

They um it just you look at these young men and you sort of say they’re extraordinary not just as athletes they’re extraordinary as people and I think people I think people forget that cuz you know you’re wearing the helmets and they’re thinking about that’s a player that’s a

Person number one and they’re great young men and I couldn’t be proud of them so I got a I got a fun question for you 42 years you’ve been playing or excuse me not playing you’ve been in the league 42 right you said 42 yep Mount Rushmore of all the people that have

Helped you get to where you are in life right now those four people who would they be you know it always starts with family to me uh you know I’ve been so blessed with a great family my parents were great I lost them very young um but um I have

Four brothers Still and we’re all really close I have a great wife um who understands what I do and my twin daughters two pardon me that’s two two yeah you you put those categories the four brothers in one the wife is two so you get two more no but I better put my

Wife first before the record I’m put my way first cool but I got you too I think professionally um the number of people who gave me opportunities um to to shine Pete Roselle who gave me a chance to to come into the NFL um people who are my

Supervisors Pete abatan worked with me Pete was my first supervisor when I walked in the door um uh so many people that were just um supportive and gave me the opportunity to try to do something and then I I would put um all those mentors are outside the leag I have I

Have so many Mentor I’m a huge mentor and and believing that we all need that we all need someone to sort of support us sometimes tell us what we don’t want to hear sometimes just to be an ear um but I think I think mentorship is really important and I I literally have

Hundreds um and they’re from every different world you could imagine and I think that’s important because it’s perspective people talk about diversity and I always talk about diversity and diversity of experiences and thought and perspective and that’s that’s what I I that’s what I really a treasure in this

Job you have a lot of information that you have to balance but you better understand all the perspectives before you make a decision appreciate that perspective so r we don’t have any more time we we got to I Knew You going to ask a thousand questions I’m going to yes go

For it I’m going to I want to know your top four players of all time who’s on your mouth four players all time peut Roman I’ll take that I you know what again um I I’ve just met so many great players and so many just great people I

I could never pick four out of that okay I couldn’t do it I like it thank you you’re a busy man is Super Bowl your assistant she’s trying to get you to go this dude will talk all day appreciate you for coming out to the show always a

Blessing to have you on appreciate I enjoyed it co uh kamish I appreciate it man in all honesty having you here is almost like making our very first Pro Bowl you have officially like made us official so thank you for having us thank you guys for coming man everybody

That looks watches continue to do that rogie Dell is here that means we are official here we have made it AKA Bruce Wayne te Tillman thank you so much wherever you listen to us pick us up on your podcast whether it’s Apple podcast iHeart Radio t a friend to tell a friend

To tell a friend give us a festar rating thank you give us a review hit follow peut get us up out of here man thank you hey we out cut we out it’s R we done you guys are good Man The

0:00 – Intro
1:13 – Roger Goodell is introduced
2:33 – Roger talks about how he became the commissioner
5:39 – Roger explains why he turned down a job working for the Jets
7:34 – Roger shares his welcome to the NFL moment
9:14 – Roger shares his welcome to the NFL moment and some of his highlights as the commissioner
13:40 – Roger, Peanut, and Roman talk about Taylor Swift’s affect on the NFL
16:58 – Roger talks about how he deals with negativity
17:57 – Roger gives his Super Bowl prediction
19:12 – Roger talks about John Madden
20:02 – Roger explains what he looks for when he watches NFL games
21:57 – Roger talks about how he transitioned to his second act
25:58 – Roman asks Roger who would win in a fight between him and the former NFL commissioner’s
27:10 – Roger explains what the league is doing to support former players
33:41 – Roger gives his personal Mount Rushmore

The NFL Players: Second Acts podcast is a production of the NFL in partnership with iHeart Radio

Watch live local and primetime games, NFL RedZone, and NFL Network on Plus.NFL.com

Check out our other channels:
NFL Tuesday Night Gaming https://www.youtube.com/c/NFLTNG
NFL Mundo https://www.youtube.com/mundonfl
NFL Brasil https://www.youtube.com/c/NFLBrasilOficial
NFL UK https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVe0dAja_vZCmvfHXjtdRQA
NFL Fantasy Football https://www.youtube.com/nflfantasyfootball
NFL Play Football https://www.youtube.com/playfootball
NFL Throwback http://www.youtube.com/nflvault
NFL Films http://www.youtube.com/nflfilms
NFL Network http://www.youtube.com/nflnetwork

#NFL #Football #AmericanFootball