{"id":682424,"date":"2026-05-20T18:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/682424\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T18:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:12:11","slug":"roger-goodell-nfl-will-continue-to-engage-with-floridas-attorney-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/682424\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Goodell: NFL will continue to engage with Florida’s attorney general"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NFL’s current political issues include an effort by Florida attorney general James Uthmeier to challenge the league’s diversity initiatives. Most recently, Uthmeier issued an investigative subpoena<\/a> to the NFL, along with a letter suggesting that the league’s response to his initial communication may have violated the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act by revising \u201cmany references\u201d on its public website to its allegedly “unlawful \u2018inclusive hiring\u2019 policies.”<\/p>\n

Commissioner Roger Goodell was in Florida on Tuesday, for the most recent ownership meeting. During a press conference conducted at the conclusion of the sessions, Goodell was asked about Uthmeier’s ongoing assault on the league.<\/p>\n

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“I think we have been very clear about our programs, and we obviously evaluate them all the time, not just for how they get better, but also to make sure that they’re consistent with the law,” Goodell said, via the Associated Press. “We’re engaging with the Florida attorney general and will continue to. We\u2019ll share everything we\u2019re doing with them<\/a>. We think it’s certainly within the law, but also something very positive.”<\/p>\n

The best evidence, frankly, would be to point to the teams’ hiring practices regarding coaches and General Managers. Despite efforts to expand the interview pool to include diverse candidates, the ultimate decisions \u2014 made exclusively by the teams and not the league \u2014 do not represent the demographics of the player population.<\/p>\n

Uthmeier, who is running for election in 2026 to the job for which he received a gubernatorial appointment, may be engaging in performative antics. Time will tell whether his letter-writing campaign and request for information becomes something more than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL’s current political issues include an effort by Florida attorney general James Uthmeier to challenge the league’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,250366,208073,6388,216888,250367,216887,514,24178,82,250365],"class_list":["post-682424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-current-political-issues","tag-diversity-initiatives","tag-florida","tag-florida-attorney-general","tag-initial-communication","tag-james-uthmeier","tag-nfl","tag-roger-goodell","tag-sports","tag-unfair-trade-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}