NFL commissioner Roger Goodell’s yearly Super Bowl state of the union is famous for its ratio of actual words spoken to the number of those words that carry an ounce of meaning or significance. Like any politician or CEO, the front man for league ownership has perfected a kind of finesse that allows him to address the day’s pressing issues in such practiced legalese that the asker of a question doesn’t realize they were shooed away until listening back to the tape recorder minutes later.
It was true Thursday of his response to the league’s minority coaching crisis, which elicited little more than a We’re working on it, Jeez!