NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said Tuesday that he expects all 32 clubs to play in front of full stadiums in 2021, after not a single NFL team saw full attendance in last year’s pandemic-stricken season. Goodell told reporters on Tuesday that “all of us in the NFL want to see every one of our fans back” when the season kicks off on Sept. 9. “Football is simply not the same without the fans,” he said, according to ProFootballTalk, “and we expect to have full stadiums in the 2021 season.” The NFL chief met earlier Tuesday with league officials during the Annual League Meeting—held virtually due to the pandemic—with much of the focus on vaccines and how to encourage players, coaches, and staff to get the jab, NFL Media’s Judy Battista reported. NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero described Goodell as taking a “strikingly optimistic tone five months away from kickoff” in raising the …
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