Joe Horn Says NFL Draftees Are ‘Hugging the Devil’ When Embracing Roger Goodell

May 26, 2015   ·   Dan Carson   ·   Jump to comments

Have you hugged Roger Goodell lately?
If so, was it a full-on embrace? A dap-and-pat? Did you pick up him up off the ground like a toy and realign his lumbar region?
Hugging the NFL commissioner is a personal thing draftees do in a moment of intense emotion, and while it seems almost involuntary at the time, Joe Horn wants rookies to remember who they're grabbing hold of when they take their first steps into the realm of professional football.
Speaking in an interview with TheFootballGirl.com (h/t the Times-Picayune's Larry Holder), the former New Orleans Saints wide receiver described Goodell as "the devil" while waxing on the current state of the league:
I don't like what Roger Goodell is doing. He has so much power that he can almost shut people down. I just don't like him. And I don't like that on draft day these kids don't know that they're hugging the devil. I hate to see kids that are lost and then happy but they really don't know that the man they're hugging...

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