New Heights Live with Patrick Mahomes, Roger Goodell, Tony Gonzalez, Eric Stonestreet & more | EP 40

Kansas City 92%ers get on your feet and please welcome to the stage the Commissioner of the National Football League Roger Goodell Come on, Kansas City, you do better than that. Come on. I'm disappointed. Good evening and welcome to the new Heights Live NFL Draft Special. We are thrilled to be here in Kansas City in this beautiful Kansas City music hall. This venue has been the home, as I understand it, for some of the finest Broadway shows, some of the great symphony orchestras, and now finally, finally, I say, a football podcast that can't decide if Waffle House is a diner. And this all started last season when the NFL script writers and I decided, there's a pretty good script this year, wouldn't you say? But we got together and we decided that two brothers should play each other in the Super Bowl. So when the Bosa brothers said no, I said, well, I guess the Kelsey's will do. So we got the Kelsey's. Now this won't be a surprise to you, but we all know that this would not be possible without one woman. I don't know where you are, Donna, but Donna Kelsey. And Donna asked me last year at the Super Bowl if I'd be so kind to come on her son's show. Yeah, I know. It was a tearjerker. I said, Donna, they're in their 30s. Don't you think it's time to stop helping them all the time? I think they can stand on their own two feet. So in my official capacity tonight is Commissioner of the NFL, I need to get out ahead of a few things that I am certain will come up in a few minutes when these guys come out. So I got three things I want to give you. And I wrote these down. The NFL does not, I say not, endorse signing of babies. And we will not, not again, be releasing official baby signing markers this coming season. Second one. Teams that fall below, don't worry. We'll get to you, don't worry. Teams that fall below 92% success rate on quarterback sneaks won't be penalized for being and I quote, cowards. And the last one, number three, the NFL does support players who play dress up. Some of us just choose to wear something nicer than flip flops to work, right? Okay, so I know you're wondering why I'm here, so let's get to it. Are you guys ready? Okay, so you're on the clock. The new Heights Live Draft Special for 2023 is officially open. So we're the first pick for the new Heights Live Show. Please welcome from Cleveland, a Cincinnati Bearcat alum, six-time pro bowler, Super Bowl champion and center for the Philadelphia Eagles, Jason Kelsey. Thank you. These guys didn't get this opportunity a few years ago, so. With the second pick for the new Heights Live Show, also from Cleveland and a Bearcat alum, eight-time pro bowler, two-time Super Bowl champion and tight end for your Kansas City Chiefs, Travis Kelsey. How about that introduction right there? Let's give it to Roger Gudell, baby. How about that? We got to get to that right away. How is it being the commissioner of the NFL? It depends on the day, I promise. They're good days and bad days, but it's actually really, and this event like tonight, but also the draft tomorrow, to be part of that moment with these kids is pretty cool. So there's a lot of great benefits and it's privileged to be part of this league. Yeah. How long have you been the commissioner now? I guess that should be my homework. I should have done that. 16 years, 248 days and 12 hours. Wow! I have no idea, but it's 17-plus. Who's counting? It's 17 seasons, I think, this year. So how have you seen the league change? I mean, it's looking what we're doing right now. Could you imagine when you started this job that we'd be doing stuff like this? Players that have this... I promise you no. That would not hit me, but no, I think it's great because, listen, the game has never been better, it's never been more popular. You guys have platforms like this that you make the league better in every way on the field and off the field. So that to me is like, okay. I want to tell you what, I appreciate you giving us this platform and letting us have this since you have helped transcend the game and take the game to a new place, a better place. We wanted to talk about some rule changes. Yeah. Let's get to the fun show. The 92% we out there know that we've talked about this before and we think that there's one rule that would just make the game unbelievable. And we wanted to know what your thoughts were on every single game you get one hockey fight per game. What do you guys think about that? Hey, it's drops like a glove, drops a helmet. Our enforcer gets your horse, baby. First guy I'm going after is Jason fucking Kelsey. Yes. We're definitely making that happen. That's a really good idea, Travis. Really good. New it. No, I'm going to send that to the competition committee. Can we, what about the rule change of possibly getting rid of offensive holding? How about that one? Getting rid of offensive holding. There's just no offensive holding at all. I'm in. This guy's crazy. All right. I just always look for the advantage. I just want to be at least my role was way better. My role was right. He's your brother? Yeah, that's it. Have you ever heard of relegation? I got four of them. I get it. I get it. If somebody wants to become the commission at the end of it, how does that happen? Like what is the rest of anybody out there wants to be commissioning as well? That's the first question I have. So it's a vote of the 32 owners eventually. So 24 have to vote. Yes. Wow. Yeah. And the good news is 24 have to vote. You're out. Yeah. So all I have to do is spend every day not trying to piss off 24 people. Well, there you go. I'm good. That's not that hard. Well, you commanded the respect of a lot of the owners to get this job. We appreciate you coming on here. Before we get you out of here, though, we got to do this one thing that we always do. Oh, shit. It just comes, right? Do you know what this is? Yeah. Oh. Are you? Yeah. I know I'm a bit of a wild card, but I promise you this is all scripted. We do this thing where we, on all the new news, we do the new news. And we harmonize it. Jason hits it. I hit it and we need you to hit it last. We need you to give us a new news in your own past. Jason's going to say it. And then you just, he give your version a new news. That would work out. That's as easy as it sounds. You ready? But first, as always, new news, new news, new news. Everybody, give it up for Rauser. Good deal. Thank you so much. Good luck this week. You are unbelievable. Let's give it up for Rauser. Good luck this week. You are unbelievable. Let's give it up for Rauser. Good deal. Come on. Yeah. 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