A Q&A with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodall that has a couple snippets of some amusement.

DN: Did you play at Washington and Jefferson?

RG: I didn’t. I hurt my knee late in the spring and I would tell you, if there is ever a regret in my life, it’s not playing college football.

DN: But Jackie Sherrill was interested in you coming to Pitt?

RG: That is true. So I was recruited, I got some interest, and there were a number of schools.

DN: When was the last time you tailgated at a game?

RG: The last time at an NFL game, I don’t know. I went to my college homecoming this year and tailgated. That was fun. I actually am probably going to be doing that in a couple of weeks at an NFL game. I’m taking my family out to a game.

DN: One of my sources told me you were a bartender in college.

RG: I’ve often said it was one of the more valuable jobs I’ve had. You learn how to deal with people in unusual circumstances or difficult circumstances. It wasn’t a steel town, but it was very much a working-class town, Washington, Pa. During the day, you had people who had been working in a mill of some type. They were in there all day. At night, it would turn into a little bit more of a younger, single hipper crowd. I had to work the transition. It was tough sometimes.

DN: Did you know how to mix all the drinks? Or did you need a book?

RG: I had a book and I still have it at home. The best part was practicing. It wasn’t a high-class bar in the sense that I had to make a lot of difficult drinks.

DN: Have you been back to the bar?

RG: I went back there for homecoming this year. They made me go behind the bar for a minute.

I’m still trying to figure out what the real differences are with the “younger, single hipper crowd” and others in Washington, PA.