<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'> BUFFALO, N.Y. -- NFL commissioner Roger Goodell visited injured tight end Kevin Everett on Thursday morning, spending 90 minutes with the Bills player who sustained a severe spinal cord injury.</p> Goodell flew from New York to Buffalo to meet with Everett and his mother, Patricia Dugas, in the player's room at Millard Fillmore Gates Hospital, hospital spokesman Mike Hughes said.</p> Bills general manager Marv Levy also was in the room.</p> Hughes said Goodell requested permission to make the visit Wednesday, hours after Everett's doctors expressed "cautious optimism" that the player might be able to walk again. Everett sustained a life-threatening spinal-cord injury in Buffalo's season opener against Denver on Sunday.</p> </p> "He just wanted to go up to see him," NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said of Goodell.</p> Everett has shown significant signs of recovery since awakening from a sedated state Tuesday.</p> Doctors said the player can wiggle his toes, bend his hip, move his ankles, elevate and kick his leg, as well as extend his elbows and slightly flex his biceps. While all are significant signs of improvement, he noted that Everett has yet to show any movement in his hands.</p> </div></p> Courtesy of ESPN. Click here to read the full article. </p>
This was a class move.</p> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ghoti)</div><div class='quotemain'></p> Has any sports commissioner ever made a better impression in a shorter amount of time?</div> </p> Should we ask Pacman Jones? lol.</p> </p>
Class move??? better impression??? As a ommissioner you better go and see one of your players that get hurt... Its not impressive that he did it its part of giving a dam and its expected.</p> But good job ommissioner maybe now you can go home and pat yourself on the back for a job well done.</p> Any player of mine is injured like that and the team, coaches, management will come and visit and the team better pay the cost of his recovery.</p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (MosDefinitely)</div><div class='quotemain'>How long has he been the commishioner of the NFL?</div></p> He's been the COO since 2001 and became commissioner in August of 2006.</p> </p>
