When National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell is under attack, as he so often is these days, @forargument is there to fight back. 
 
 Wait, who? 
 
 The Twitter account, under the name “Jones smith,” has no followers, no profile picture and has been virtually dormant for long periods since its creation in 2014. 
 
 Roger Goodell 
 
 But @forargument has roared to life in the past few months, rising up to vigorously defend Mr. Goodell against perceived attacks on his handling of issues such as the national anthem protests by players. 
 
 The most frequent sparring partner for @forargument is the nation’s sports media. On Sept. 26, @ProFootballTalk, the Twitter account for the popular NBC Sports blog, tweeted that it was “on the commissioner” to solve the anthem issues. 
 
 In response, @forargument tweeted: “Please do better reporting. He is already doing this. You are behind.” 
 
 Who is this valiant defender of a man who has so few defenders? 
 
 It is Roger Goodell’s wife, Jane Skinner Goodell, The Wall Street Journal confirmed after an examination of the account. 
 
 “It was a REALLY silly thing to do and done out of frustration—and love.” Mrs. Goodell said Thursday afternoon in a written statement. “As a former media member, I’m always bothered when the coverage doesn’t provide a complete and accurate picture of a story. I’m also a wife and a mom. I have always passionately defended the hard-working guy I love—and I always will. I just may not use Twitter to do so in the future!” 
 
 Within an hour after the Journal reached out to Mrs. Goodell and the NFL, the account was made private. Later, it was taken down completely. 
 
 “Sounds like what she did is what every spouse in America would want to do,” said NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy. 
 
 Fans at the New England Patriots game in September held towels depicting NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell wearing a clown nose. Photo: Maddie Meyer/Getty Images 
 
 Mrs. Goodell, a former broadcaster, is punching back at a trying time for her husband. The league is in a feud with President Donald Trump over some players’ decisions to kneel during the national anthem. It is embroiled in a legal fight with one of its top stars, Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott, over a disciplinary issue. The league’s strong TV ratings have sagged the past two seasons. 
 
 And the commissioner has a lucrative contract extension—one that is reportedly close, but not yet completed—hanging in the balance. 
 
 Amid this firestorm, Mrs. Goodell has covertly worked to change the narrative. All of the 14 tweets from Mrs. Goodell since August are defenses of Mr. Goodell in reply to various publications, including the Journal and prominent sports commentators. 
 
 Throughout the guerrilla social-media campaign, however, nobody has been paying attention. None of those tweets have elicited replies, likes or retweets. 
 
 But @forargument is nothing if not consistent in its support for the commissioner. 
 
 In reply to an ESPN article about the NFL’s response to Mr. Trump’s attacks, @forargument admonished the two reporters involved: “Reads like press release from players’ union. You can do better reporting. (D Smith sounds like D Trump with the inaccurate firebombs).” DeMaurice Smith is the head of the NFL Players Association. 
 
 “The premise of your article is silly,” @forargument tweeted on Oct. 3 at the Journal after an article about disagreement among league owners over handling of the anthem protests. “What board of directors in this country would all agree on this issue?” 
 
 “Why is everyone so immature? (including you?),” @forargument scolded Journal columnist Jason Gay in August. 
 
 Her most recent tweet was in response to a tweet from NBC News’s presidential historian, who tweeted a picture of a newspaper article from 1970 titled “Agnew Continues Attack on GOP Senator Goodell,” who is the commissioner’s father. 
 
 @forargument replied: “Goodell courageous & was right in the end. Leadership is hard. Commish is doing same. Give him credit.” 
 
 Walt Disney Co.’s ESPN declined to comment. Comcast Corp.’s NBC and Dow Jones & Co., publisher of the Journal, didn’t have an immediate comment. 
 
 It wasn’t her tweets that gave @forargument away. It was some of the people she follows. 
 
 In total, @forargument follows 46 accounts. Between the national outlets, prominent athletes and others (such as Taylor Swift, Ryan Seacrest and a popular account @FemaleTexts), she follows four accounts connected to the high school attended by the Goodells’ twin daughters. 
 
 Various other social-media breadcrumbs track to Goodell family members and friends. 
 
 Mrs. Goodell, though quiet in recent years, has an impressive résumé. She has experience in the media world and has spent plenty of time in the spotlight. 
 
 She and Mr. Goodell married in 1997, and he became commissioner in 2006. She co-hosted a daytime show on Fox News until 2010, when she stepped down saying she wanted to spend more time with her family. 
 
 “To do justice to this new life, I’ve decided to take a break from this business,” she said during her on-air farewell. 
 
 She doesn’t have a verified Twitter account of her own and has rarely spoken publicly since leaving Fox News. In one exception, she spoke at the NFL Women’s Summit in 2016 before Super Bowl 50, moderating a panel about “Media, Entertainment and Sports as a Platform.” 
 
 That a prominent person has a secret Twitter account isn’t altogether surprising. Many high-profile figures use the social-media site covertly to monitor others—without tweeting themselves. 
 
 In the past year, enterprising sleuths have found the anonymous accounts purportedly belonging to people such as former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey and National Basketball Association Commissioner Adam Silver. Neither of those accounts issued public tweets. 
 
 Mrs. Goodell, however, tweeted publicly and challenged big-name outlets in defense of Mr. Goodell. In that way, it falls in line with a tradition of spouses coming to the defense of their significant others. 
 
 In 2012, supermodel Gisele Bündchen stuck up for Patriots quarterback Tom Brady saying, “my husband cannot f—ing throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time.” More recently, country pop star Jessie James Decker wrote on Instagram that her husband, Titans receiver Eric Decker, didn’t know he was missing the national anthem when he was in the locker room with the team two weeks ago and the whole team stayed off the field. 
 
 Mr. Goodell has his own Twitter account with more than 500,000 followers under the handle @nflcommish. He last tweeted Saturday in Indianapolis, from the Colts’ unveiling of Peyton Manning’s statue outside their stadium. @forargument liked that tweet. 
 
 He follows 195 accounts. The NFL spokesman said Mr. Goodell didn’t know about @forargument. ||||| Photo: Nati Harnik/AP 
 
 NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell takes frequent criticism across many mediums, but according to the Wall Street Journal, former Fox News anchor Jane Skinner Goodell stood up for her husband’s bumbling through an anonymous Twitter account with the absolutely perfect handle @forargument. 
 
 The account, which used the display name “Jones smith” and had no followers or photo, has since been deleted. The Journal preserved a few screenshots of her replies. From the report: 
 
 The most frequent sparring partner for @forargument is the nation’s sports media. On Sept. 26, @ProFootballTalk, the Twitter account for the popular NBC Sports blog, tweeted that it was “on the commissioner” to solve the anthem issues. In response, @forargument tweeted: “Please do better reporting. He is already doing this. You are behind.” 
 
 All that remains of the account now are a couple of one-sided conversations, most of which seem to be quibbles regarding facts on stories about the NFL, with reporters Gabriel Sherman and Jared Dubin: 
 
 Jane confirmed to the Journal that she indeed was behind @forargument: 
 
 “It was a REALLY silly thing to do and done out of frustration—and love.” Mrs. Goodell said Thursday afternoon in a written statement. “As a former media member, I’m always bothered when the coverage doesn’t provide a complete and accurate picture of a story. I’m also a wife and a mom. I have always passionately defended the hard-working guy I love—and I always will. I just may not use Twitter to do so in the future!” 
 
 Jane is ride-or-die. 
 
 [Wall Street Journal]
– For better for worse, for richer or poorer, through the good tweets and the bad. It's not clear if that last part was included in Roger Goodell's wedding vows, but the NFL commissioner's wife, Jane Skinner Goodell, admitted Thursday to what Deadspin calls a "ride-or-die" move online. The Wall Street Journal reports on a mysterious @forargument Twitter account under the name "Jones Smith" that's been rushing to Goodell's defense in recent months. The Journal followed the "social-media breadcrumbs" to figure out more than a dozen tweets sent from the since-deleted account were from Skinner Goodell, which she now admits to. "It was a REALLY silly thing to do and done out of frustration—and love," Skinner Goodell says in a statement, noting she did so in part as a "former media member" (she's an ex-Fox News host) concerned about inaccurate coverage. The tweets she put up, which the Journal notes were barely acknowledged online, rebutted posts written about everything from her husband's response to the NFL anthem protests to a historical note on a 1970s attack on her father-in-law, GOP Sen. Charles Goodell. The Journal describes how it figured out it was her, scouring the Twitter account to see who the account followed and finding—among media outlets, sports personalities, and even Ryan Seacreast—a handful of accounts linked to the high school attended by her twin daughters with Goodell. "I have always passionately defended the hard-working guy I love—and I always will," she writes in her statement about the man she's been married to for 20 years. "I just may not use Twitter to do so in the future!" An NFL rep says Goodell himself was unaware of his wife's "secret admirer" account.