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Thursday 14 december 2017
HAWK PROOF
NFL Commissioner Roger
Goodell walks in a hallway
during a break at the NFL
owners’ winter meeting in
Irving, Texas, Wednesday,
Dec. 13, 2017.
Associated Press
Goodell, Jerry
Jones moving
on with new
contract in
place
By SCHUYLER DIXON
AP Pro Football Writer
IRVING, Texas (AP) —
NFL Commissioner Roger
Goodell twice turned to
Jerry Jones when asked
about his relationship with
the powerful Dallas Cow-
boys owner who tried to
scuttle his contract exten-
sion.
“Jerry, do I look like I take
it personally?” Goodell Cavaliers beat Hawks 123-114
asked after the second
question as Jones, the re-
cent Hall of Fame induct-
ee, winked at him. “’No’
is the answer to that ques-
tion.”
A new five-year deal for
Goodell had been signed
for a week when owners
gathered for meetings at Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James, right,
a luxury Dallas-area hotel
Wednesday. And while shoots over Atlanta Hawks’ Taurean Prince in
Jones was conciliatory, the second half of an NBA basketball game,
even hugging Goodell Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017, in Cleveland.
when replacing him on the Associated Press
podium, the outspoken bil-
lionaire wasn’t conceding Page 19
anything.
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