Roger Goodell Returns to Twitter and Gets Grilled

After not using Twitter for almost two years, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell used his @nflcommish handle to announce the NFL broadcasting Thursday games on Twitter, and NFL fans immediately unleashed burn after merciless burn.

There’s certainly no love lost between NFL sock puppet Roger Goodell and fans of the New England Patriots, and the commissioner’s return to Twitter on Wednesday afternoon to announce Twitter streaming Thursday Night Football games brought the wrath of football fans all over.

Roger Goodell’s return tweet, after a two-year Twitter hiatus, was pretty straightforward:

I guess that’s useful if you’re…on a plane and have Internet, but don’t feel like paying extra to stream games with the NFL app?  Or you’re at the beach, watching the sun set, and think “Gee, you know what would make this beautiful scene even better?  JAGUARS VS GIANTS on Thursday Night Football!”

Anyway, after that perfectly harmless announcement, sports Twitter wound up and unloaded on Goodell, unleashing all flavors of burns that even Chris Kluwe would be proud of.

There’s concussion jokes! (Not jokes about concussions, jokes about the league’s gee-golly-we-just-can’t-be-sure-football-head-injuries-are-bad attitude):

And there’s burns about the NFL getting the Rick James treatment (“What did the five fingers say to the face? SLAP!”) from the New York Times last week, after the league basically threatened a lawsuit:

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And there were Josh Gordon jokes, who the commissioner has somehow managed to turn into a sympathetic character after the league office seems to be purposefully avoiding reinstating him:

(How a burn about Josh Gordon that also incorporates Harry Potter didn’t get any likes is a mystery unto itself.)

Patriots fans made sure to defend the wall with plenty of Deflategate rage, including one it’s-funny-cause-it’s-true observation that Goodell stayed off social media during the entire year-plus of Deflategate:

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St. Louis Rams fans, who had their hearts casually ripped out by the league this year when their city did all it could to keep the Rams, and the league gave the Fonzi double-thumbs-up on shipping the team to Los Angeles anyway:

And people certainly haven’t forgotten that Goodell lied about the Ray Rice tapes, and lied about Rice’s version of the story, after deciding a 2-game suspension was good enough for knocking his fiance out cold:

Some people pulled out their thesaurus:

And there was even a reference to the recently discovered Panama Papers!

It’s tough being a man of integrity these days.

(H/T to Fox News)