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Is the NFL Finally Listening?

No football questions.

If the 50-some NFL reporters on the Vikings' Zoom press conference call hadn't been muted, there would have been a collective audible gasp.

"We understand some people may have football questions," said Jeff Anderson, the Vikings' VP of strategic and corporate communications. "But we really want today to be about the significant events facing our community and the country. … We will have plenty of time to talk football in the coming weeks."

No football questions? There likely hasn't been a press conference or media availability organized by a team that has ever begun with these ground rules.