Goodell promises exciting season
Commissioner of the National Football League Roger Goodell promised fans a season to remember in an interview on ESPN Radio’s Mike and Mike in the Morning. Goodell said that his office had a “great plot line ready to unleash,” including cases of “awe-inspiring breakouts, records falling, backstabbing, love, and intrigue. All that good stuff and more to make this NFL season as great as the stuff you see in the theaters.”
Goodell said that last season was a success, but the league needed some more drama to counter the effects of the economic recession.
“Last year we had the return of Brett Favre, which was a big hit, I think, so we decided to go with it again this year. Oh, and of course Brady missing the season. One of our writers, a professed Giants fan, came up with the idea shortly before the start of last season and suggested it to the Hunt family [owners of the Kansas City Chiefs], who recommend that Pollard be the one to destroy Brady’s knee. Belichick was pretty POed after the game, so we devised the emergence of Matt Cassel to quell his worries.”
For this season, Goodell said the idea of having Al Davis sign Usain Bolt had been tossed around, as well as having Adrian Peterson tear his achilles, “to stir the pot a bit in the fantasy world.”
