If you want to attend Commissioner Roger Goodell’s Super Bowl press conference, you won’t have a decision on the matter.
A few years ago, the NFL moved Roger Goodell’s traditional Super Bowl press conference from Friday to Wednesday of the game week.
In 2024, it is now being moved even earlier. This time, it is headed for Monday but with a twist.
It’s also an invitation-only event.
Many seem to think that Goodell is ducking the tough questions:
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Last year, NFL Media didn’t renew Trotter’s contract after he grilled Goodell about the league’s lackluster diversity efforts at consecutive Super Bowl press conferences.
Despite the hiring of three Black head coaches, the league is still bad diversity. Unfortunately, it looks like nobody will be asking him about it.
Veteran sports journalist Jim Trotter filed a discrimination and retaliation lawsuit against the NFL and the NFL Network, alleging that he lost his job as an NFL Network reporter after challenging the league and its commissioner, Roger Goodell, about its lack of diversity in coaching and management.
Trotter’s complaint said that he worked for the league for five years and was let go after repeatedly calling the NFL out for not addressing “long-standing, systemic and institutional discrimination within coaching ranks, within the NFL league office and within the NFL Media newsroom.”
In a motion to dismiss last month, the NFL said that Trotter’s retaliation claim should be dismissed because his “bald claim that he challenged supposed ‘systemic race discrimination’ in the NFL is not supported by factual allegations, and in any event is too generic to have put his employer on notice that he believed it had engaged in any particular unlawful employment practice.”
