{"id":665263,"date":"2026-01-09T02:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/665263\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T02:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:08:12","slug":"in-roger-goodells-nfl-common-sense-never-prevails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/665263\/","title":{"rendered":"In Roger Goodell&#8217;s NFL, common sense never prevails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is not a prop bet. It\u2019s more of a prop dream, a what-if. Goes like this:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Roger Goodell calls an important news conference and his legions of Stalin-like useful media idiots gather like lemmings in alternate black uniforms. He begins:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou likely recall the NFL Network propaganda production in which I starred, the one in which I addressed a roomful of Packer fans and soulfully recited my doctrine, \u2018It\u2019s all about our fans.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, for those of you here today, who don\u2019t yet know or pretend not to know, I was lying. It\u2019s not all about our fans; it\u2019s about money, especially TV money, by any and all means possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is not a prop bet. It\u2019s more of a prop dream, a what-if. Goes like this:\u00a0 Roger&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3249,7,6,1902,9,5433,2833,3248],"class_list":["post-665263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-equal-time","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-roger-goodell","tag-sports","tag-sports-betting","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115862707040925104","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}