Roger Goodell's Rhetoric Cold as Weather

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DALLAS -- Remember Baghdad Bob, the erstwhile Iraqi Information Minister who proclaimed Saddam's army was kicking butt while U.S. tanks rolled through the streets behind him?

He's working for the NFL now. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you Baghdad Roger.

"We are thrilled to be here in North Texas," he said Friday.

B. Roger Goodell gave his annual State of the NFL speech, proclaiming this is a great place for a Super Bowl. In the background, a fresh blast of winter engulfed Ice Station Dallas.

Hundreds of flights were canceled. Scores of cars slipped off the road. Thousands of people almost slipped on the ice. Electricity blackouts roamed the state.

But on the plus side, we could have been in Cairo. And Ben Roethlisberger has been forced to take cold showers all week.

It's always funny until somebody gets hurt, which also happened Friday. Seven people were injured, one critically, when ice fell from the roof of Cowboys Stadium.

Griping about the host city is a Super Bowl tradition. I always figured 99.8 percent of America didn't care that Snoop Dogg didn't show up at the Maxim party or that a media bus had a flat tire and irate reporters missed the free buffet at Taco Cabana.

As long as the game wasn't affected, it was much ado about zero. But Super Bowl XLV's weather has caused problems beyond forcing Fergie to wear clothes in public.

 

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