During his training camp tour, Roger Goodell had locker room meetings with players at each training camp he visited and those visits had some emotionally charged confrontations. At one point in the commissioner’s visit with the Cleveland Browns, linebacker Scott Fujita, a member of the NFL Players Association’s executive committee, asked: “What do the owners want? What’s it going to take to get a deal done?†Goodell replied “I can’t answer that.†Fujita shot back.“You’re the NFL commissioner. You’re here as the mouthpiece for the owners, and you can’t even tell us what they want? The CBA [collective bargaining agreement] is up in March. Don’t you think you need to start giving us some answers?†By the end of his visit with the Browns, players were referring to the league’s chief executive as “Roger the Dodger.†It got worse for Goodell during the final visit of his tour, this stop coming at the Indianapolis Colts’ training camp. According to two sources familiar with the meeting, some Colts players admonished Goodell with swear words, to the point where star quarterback Peyton Manning was embarrassed by their behavior. Veteran center Jeff Saturday, another executive committee member, cut the meeting short to keep the situation from escalating further. Source: Yahoo! Sports
