NFL commissioner Roger Goodell began his widely panned press conference last Friday by saying the league was about to hire a new chief medical officer.
Apparently, like the press conference, that’s not going quite as planned either.
According to Scott Soshnick of Bloomberg, Elizabeth G. Nabel of Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital rejected the league offer of the newly created job.
She subsequently sent out an email to hospital staff, indicating she might still have an advisory role, but that “I have no intention of leaving our beloved Brigham.”
The league didn’t comment on the report, which said Nabel was set to be named the league’s CMO as soon as today.