Roger Goodell sees a difference between daily fantasy sports leagues like FanDuel and DraftKings and season-long fantasy football leagues the NFL supports.

Goodell said the NFL sees a "big distinction" between daily fantasy sports and season-long leagues, which he said are "an opportunity to enjoy the game." Fantasy football, Goodell said, is "not about making money.

"Season-long fantasy -- many people probably play here in this room -- it's for fun," Goodell said during a fan forum in Minneapolis on Sunday morning. "It's social. It's an opportunity to enjoy the game, and we encourage our kids to do it. They have clubs in school. It's a way to connect people, and we think that's a wonderful way. Daily fantasy's taken a little different approach. We want to make sure we understand how it would be done. We love people who are going to engage in the game and have fun with it. It's not about making money. It's about enjoying the game and enjoying the team, enjoying the players you pick."

Jerry Jones and Robert Kraft have invested in daily fantasy companies, but the NFL has maintained a public opposition to gambling.

"Daily fantasy is different, in the sense that it's essentially, the player picks whatever players they want," Goodell said. "They do that independently, and it's a matchup of those players. It really would be difficult to have that remote influence we are worried about than gambling in general. So I'm less troubled on that front. But I also want to make sure that, specifically our fans, when you play something, I want to make sure there are proper consumer protections. That's important for us."

The NFL will ask a U.S. appeals court to uphold a potential $1 billion plan to settle thousands of concussion lawsuits filed by former players.

The appeal is based on complaints that it protects some retirees at the expense of others.

The awards could reach several million dollars for men with Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and advanced dementia. However, they do not cover depression, seizures and mood disorders, which some experts link to concussions.

There are also no awards for future cases of CTE.

"Class counsel bargained away the rights of more than 20,000 former NFL players — many of whom are suffering the serious effects of CTE, fairly called 'football's industrial disease.' This alone is reason to reject the settlement," lawyer Steven F. Molo wrote on behalf of clients appealing the settlement.

Anheuser-Busch and the NFL have agreed to extend Bud Light’s sponsorship of the league for another six years, through the 2022 Super Bowl.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the deal will pay the NFL $1.4 billion, which works out to more than $7 million for each team, every year of the sponsorship.

The sponsorship will allow Bud Light to do things like put sponsored highlights on social media and award “Bud Light Players of the Game.”

That’s on top of the amount of money that Bud Light spends to buy commercials on NFL broadcasts.

“We’ve done the math and wouldn’t be renewing this sponsorship if we didn’t believe this would allow us to sell more beer,” Anheuser-Busch executive Lucas Herscovici said.