Roger Goodell might be celebrating his new long-term contract, but he also now faces an impossible battle: appeasing people who see the long-term damage of football injuries, and appeasing players who don’t want the game to change at all. There are football parents-to-be and NFL veterans who have seen the effects of the game on the brain and body, and want things to become safer. But there are athletes, like Steelers safety Mike Mitchell, who mock any idea of change, saying that players know what they sign up for.
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![[L-R] Bill Berry, Michael Stipe, Mike Mills and Peter Buck of R.E.M. at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, Illinois on July 7, 1984.](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/rem-book-interview.jpg?resize=450%2C450)
