At roughly 11:00 a.m. ET on Friday, the NFL announced that Commissioner Roger Goodell will conduct a press conference at 3:00 p.m. ET. While that didn’t leave me with enough time to make it from West Virginia to Midtown Manhattan, NBC keeps some of its cameras a lot closer. And those cameras will be connected via satellite to the NBC Sports Group headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut.
The pictures and words sent via satellite will be broadcast on NBCSN, in a special edition of Pro Football Talk. Paul Burmeister and yours truly will react to and analyze the opening comments from Goodell, the questions he receives, and the answers he provides.
Look for Goodell to answer any and all questions, and to accommodate every media member who shows up for the event. After the events of the last two weeks, Goodell can’t let one of the league’s P.R. representatives cut off the conference before all questions have been answered. Which explains the fairly short notice; he plans to answer all questions, and by announcing the event only four hours before it happened, the universe of questions will be smaller.
Whatever the questions and answers, you’ll see and hear them all on NBCSN at 3:00 p.m. ET. And then you’ll see and hear us talk about what it all means.