Over the next three days, he tells me many interesting things, but virtually none of them are eligible for attribution. He’s a very nice guy and a nuanced sports thinker, but his level of caution is profound (almost to the point of comedy). Most of my direct queries are answered with either banal business-speak or a nondescript chuckle. He ultimately tells me only two “on the record” anecdotes that are worth mentioning here. One involved his failed attempt in Dallas to play Radiohead in the Cowboys weight room (“All the guys were like, What the fuck is this?”). The other is that—upon his
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