NFL fans have ripped into Roger Goodell following a bizarre skit involving the league’s commissioner during the NFL Honors award ceremony.
On Thursday night, football’s biggest names – from coaches and players to former stars and team chiefs – gathered in San Francisco for the glitzy awards show.
Though the season’s biggest awards were being handed out on the night, fans couldn’t help but discuss Goodell’s peculiar cameo during one segment of the show.
In between awards, the 66-year-old took over as the evening’s DJ – dressed in a black hat, sunglasses, and a large gold chain necklace – in a bizarre moment.
Host and actor John Hamm attempted to throw to DJ Bijan Robinson, before cameras panned to Goodell standing in his place. Hamm asked: ‘What are you doing?!’
‘Bijan is on the can and I told him I’d take over,’ Goodell replied.
NFL fans have ripped into Roger Goodell following a bizarre skit at the 2026 Honors ceremony
Goodell dressed up as DJ during a segment on the night which left football fans bemused
After being asked whether he knew how to DJ, Goodell said: ‘It’s my passion, John. And when I’m behind here, please, I like to go by ‘Rog DMC’.
He then announced he only plays his ‘favorite songs’ before an NFL intro song played out through the speakers inside the auditorium.
While Goodell likely thought it would be a funny moment on the night, it appears the skit backfired after fans ripped into the NFL commissioner on social media.
‘Roger goodell you are not funny please don’t attempt to rehab your image just let us enjoy clowning you,’ one disgruntled viewer wrote on X.
‘There’s literally no way Roger Goodell thought this would be a funny bit,’ another wrote while attaching a screenshot of the NFL commissioner in his DJ gear.
One fan said: ‘Get Roger Goodell off my screen’. Similarly, another simply wrote: ‘Roger Goodell cringe’.
The outburst against Goodell comes shortly after the NFL commissioner tried to play down the furor surrounding Bad Bunny and ICE at this year’s Super Bowl.
The decision sparked outrage from Donald Trump and a number of his allies, with the president branding it ‘crazy’ and ‘absolutely ridiculous’ to choose the Puerto Rican artist.
Bad Bunny previously cited ICE as a reason he did not include any mainland US dates for his tour and the singer took aim at federal agents during a speech at the Grammys on Sunday night.
But with just days to go until the Seahawks and Patriots face off, Goodell suggested the storm is not overshadowing Super Bowl LX.
When asked by the Daily Mail if he was frustrated that ICE and Bad Bunny are dominating the build-up to Sunday’s game, he said: ‘I don’t think that’s true… I think the media is [talking about it]. I don’t think anyone else is.’
