No to Ned

This year, Roger Goodell was a no-show at the NFL season opener he usually frequents, saying he wanted the attention to be on football at Gillette Stadium when the New England Patriots and Pittsburgh Steelers took the field. (When asked why the attention wouldn’t be on football if he had been there, Goodell demurred like the politician he is.) The Deflategate-hunter also used the excuse that he’ll be in Chicago for the Packers-Bears game on Sunday, as if car, plane, train and balloon travel had yet to be invented and there was no way he could get from Boston to Chicago in 60 hours.

Anyway, while New England’s least favorite man was theoretically at home watching the quarterback he tried to suspend pick apart the Pittsburgh Steelers, he wasn’t forgotten among the fans in Foxborough, who started a hilarious “where is Roger?” chant midway through the fourth quarter.