Mark Armstrong, sports director for ABC owned Raleigh-Durham, N.C. station WTVD, tried to get close to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell today while the commissioner was visiting a local high school.
As Deadspin first reported, the story of what happened next played out in three tweets.
This is very odd. Roger Goodell is at Wake Forest HS, but they’re preventing media from attending.
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— Mark Armstrong (@ArmstrongABC11) September 10, 2014
Our cameras were turned away despite the fact it appears he’s holding some kind of a Q&A pic.twitter.com/Qay5St03K3
— Mark Armstrong (@ArmstrongABC11) September 10, 2014
Goodell is here promoting the Heads Up Football initiative. @Ngozi_ABC11 was told to leave to ‘protect the students’.
— Mark Armstrong (@ArmstrongABC11) September 10, 2014
Armstrong clarified not all media was shooed away from Goodell. “It turns out that the local CBS affiliate’s prep sports web reporter was allowed to attend as well as a columnist, Luke DeCock, from the Raleigh News and Observer.”
DeCock later tweeted what Goodell told him.
Goodell on calls to resign: “I feel the weight of the public every day. I have to go earn my job every day, to earn trust every day.”
— Luke DeCock (@LukeDeCock) September 10, 2014
Armstrong also said it was a Wake County Public Schools PR person who told them they had to leave to “protect the students,” not the NFL.
Check out the video from the WTVD 4:00 p.m. show: