Goodell airs his agenda for coming year

0 Comments | USA TODAY, February, 2008 | by Skip Wood

PHOENIX -- In his second state of the league address at a Super Bowl, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell touched on issues, including Congress' interest in "Spygate," a potential new seeding system for the playoffs, potential labor strife and a declaration that "expansion is off the table right now."

The team owners and other executives who happened to be on hand Friday hung on every word, as did most reporters in one of the more anticipated gatherings of Super Bowl week.

For example, Goodell said he wouldn't mind at all setting up a meeting with Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa. Specter, who, in referring to the fines and other punishment meted out to the New England Patriots early this season after they were caught taping opposing teams' signals, said in a letter last...