At the NFL’s semi-annual owners’ meeting, Robert Kraft and Jerry Jones are said to have clashed at the round table. At the centre of the spat: Commissioner Roger Goodell’s contract.

Munich/New York City – Not only the dispute between Jim Irsay and Dan Snyder, the owners of the Indianapolis Colts and Washington Commanders, caused excitement at the semi-annual meeting of the 32 NFL owners.

Robert Kraft (New England Patriots) and Jerry Jones (Dallas Cowboys) are also said to have clashed verbally. The reason: Roger Goodell and his contract respectively.

“Don’t mess with me”: Jones is against Goodell

As “ESPN” reports, Jones was reportedly the only one at a roundtable who voted against a contract extension for the commissioner. When Kraft tried to convince him, he reportedly angrily said “Don’t f*** with me” verbatim. Loosely translated: “Don’t fuck with me”.

It was not the extension itself that was at issue, but the financial aspects of the new contract, as “ESPN” has further learned. Above all, Jones did not want to simply sign the bonuses.

“Jones is hesitant about big bonuses before someone has really earned them,” an anonymous source told “ESPN”. However, he is said to have been quite alone in this. The 31 other team owners voted in favour of a new draft contract from Goodell.

If and when his extension will be approved is still open at the moment.