MIAMI — Roger Goodell’s annual press conferences have such a formal, heavily orchestrated feel that it’s hard to remember if we should worry about concussions in football or the mother of the Bar Mitzvah boy bursting into tears. At this year’s gala, there were metal detectors and ropes and reporters reading their questions, because this is the kind of affair that makes people nervous for no apparent reason. Some of the questions were very good, and most of them served as a collective reminder of just how wide-ranging and complicated Goodell’s job as the NFL’s commissioner really is.
Figuratively, at least, Goodell went from London to Mexico to Las Vegas to Canada; got stuck in L.