The sky is blue. The sun sets in the west. Roger Goodell will not be in Foxborough, Massachusetts on Sunday. These are things we knew definitively before today, but only one of them makes us laugh.
On Tuesday, an NFL spokesman confirmed to ESPN’s Mike Reiss that Commissioner Goodell will be attending NFC Championship game between the Packers and the Falcons in Atlanta on Sunday, rather than the AFC Championship between the Patriots and the Steelers in Foxborough.
Roger Goodell will attend the NFC Championship game in Atlanta on Sunday, per a league spokesman.
This means that Goodell will finish the 2016 NFL season having successfully avoided visiting Gillette Stadium for two full years.