National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell released a recorded video to admit the league was “wrong” for not listening to players who protested against social injustice and police brutality.
National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell admitted the league was “wrong” for failing to listen to players who protested social injustice, he said on Friday in a video.
In his second statement released since the May 25 death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man in Minnesota, Goodell used the roughly 1:20 recorded message to not only “condemn and the systemic oppression of black people” but admit fault for not listening to its players “earlier.
