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Thu Oct 12, 2017, 06:22 PM Oct 2017

NFL- Roger Goodell's wife (formerly on Fox News) was using anonymous tweets to defend him

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/21003600/roger-goodell-wife-was-tweeting-incognito-defense

Roger Goodell's wife has been using an anonymous Twitter account to defend him this season against unseemly or critical online stories about the NFL commissioner.

"It was a REALLY silly thing to do and done out of frustration -- and love," Jane Skinner Goodell said Thursday afternoon in a written statement to the Journal. "As a former media member, I'm always bothered when the coverage doesn't provide a complete and accurate picture of a story. I'm also a wife and a mom. I have always passionately defended the hard-working guy I love -- and I always will. I just may not use Twitter to do so in the future!"


The Journal, in its investigation of the Twitter account @forargument, found that Goodell had used it 14 times to defend her husband in reply to the posting of online stories from various publications, including ESPN.com, NBC Sports and the Journal. The account has since been deleted from Twitter after the Journal's publication of the story.

Late last month, when the NBC Sports blog Pro Football Talk tweeted it was "on the commissioner" to mollify the recent national anthem controversy, Goodell used the account to reply.

"Please do better reporting," Jane Skinner Goodell, a former anchor for Fox News before her retirement in 2011, tweeted. "He is already doing this. You are behind."
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So now Roger Goddell has some real Wellstone ruled Oct 2017 #1
 

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1. So now Roger Goddell has some real
Thu Oct 12, 2017, 07:20 PM
Oct 2017

splaining to do to the NFLPA. This is going end darn messy and the Owners will have to eat Trump's words.

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