Scooby-Doo
Ruh-roh
Telephone? Trust me, they are talking behind the scenes.The problem with that theory is that you don't understand the owners aren't calling the shots on this one. Goodell is. He has full control over this.
When the owners met, he said they'd be fined for kneeling. All of a sudden, he does a 180 with no owner meetings having taken place (and some owners already saying players will be suspended for this).
This is Goodell being a limp bitch. The players calling him a "devil" during the CBA negotiations got to him.