If anyone needed another sign that the NFL was approaching an inflection point this summer—staring down congressional scrutiny over its streaming deals, dispatching league officials to Washington, etcetera—the usually press-shy commissioner Roger Goodell recently appeared in Vanity Fair to further plead his case about the league’s inevitable flight to streaming. “You can make an argument that [Netflix’s distribution] is bigger than some of the networks,” he told the eternally fedora-clad Lachlan Cartwright.