NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was buzzing around Boston yesterday but there was little buzz about it. The Commish was not necessarily keeping a low profile but he wasn’t exactly handing out press releases on his whereabouts either.

Normally the NFL media machine would have been trumpeting the Commish’s every move because what he was about was what the NFL does best. He was handing out money.

Most of the time that money is being handed out to Bob Kraft and the 31 other NFL owners but there is a charitable arm of the NFL as well and it was throwing deep yesterday.

Despite some recent feuding, Kraft and Goodell partnered to hand out $150,000 to fund building a playground and renovate and expand Bridge Over Troubled Waters’ transitional living residence for homeless kids and their families. The money not only helped pay for supplies necessary for the construction but also for kitchen appliances, furniture and other household items.

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When you’re delivering a check to someone, the recipients normally have the good sense not to wear a T-shirt picturing the Commish on the front sporting a clown nose, although Patriots defensive coordinator Matt Patricia was an exception last year on the team’s return flight from Super Bowl LI.

Tonight the Commish will be on hand at Gillette Stadium for the kickoff to the 2017 season, watching from his old friend Kraft’s box as the Patriots’ fifth Super Bowl banner is unveiled in its new resting place. When you have to renovate to make room for your flag collection, you’re doing pretty well regardless of what some New England fans believe is a massive Commish-led conspiracy to foil the Patriots’ every move.

The New England narrative is that the Commish needed a bridge over troubled waters himself after sitting down Our Tom for four games last season for his alleged part in the football version of running the four-corner offense. Our Tom took the air out of the ball, the Commish’s minions said. He even did it without using an Apple Watch, although his own form of electronic handiwork, which involved destroying his cell phone, set about as well with the Commish as the Red Sox’s electronic sign stealing operation has with his baseball Commish counterpart, Rob Manfred.

Goodell has taken no public position on clown noses, although it’s expected he’ll see plenty of them tonight when Barstool Sports founder David Portnoy sends out a fleet of 20-somethings to hand out what he’s promised to be 70,000 clown nose towels with Goodell’s picture on them before the game.

Patriots coach Bill Belichick was asked this week if he considered this an example of the kind of “meticulous preparation’’ he and his staff put on display in a documentary about how they prepared for Super Bowl LI. There was no mention in that video of their preparing to fall behind 28-3 with 17 minutes to play but, myth-making usually being authored by the winners, that has become the narrative.

Belichick handled that question the same way Goodell is expected to handle the noses tonight when he responded, “Yeah, I’m not really too concerned about all the exterior things with the game. Just trying to get ready for the Chiefs.’’

It’s a safe bet Goodell is feeling the same way. When the throng begins waving 70,000 $2 towels in his direction he will resist the temptation to wave $70,000 in cash back at them, as one might expect Floyd “Money’’ Mayweather to do.

The Commish won’t “make it rain” out the window of Kraft’s box either, although with the five-year extension on a contract that earned him over $150 million in his first eight years of running the league he could wallpaper over every clown nose in the place if he chose to. To put that into perspective for those swinging clown-nose towels tonight after spending several hundred to get a look at Goodell and twice as much for the libations that will be wetting their whistles, that $150 million-plus is about $60 million more than Tom Brady’s been paid. Who’s the clown again?

If you believe the narrative of fans and some pundits, Goodell has irked the two most powerful men in pro football — Kraft and Jerry Jones — by suspending Brady and Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott, the former for four games and the latter for six. Supporters of each argue the evidence against them was thinner than gruel but a federal appeals court confirmed in Brady’s case the Commish was like Thor — he has the hammer.

Elliott is about to learn the same and, truth be told, that’s how the owners, including Kraft and Jones, want it. They may not like it when the hammer comes down on them but they don’t want neutral arbitrators nosing around into their business. They’ve seen what that’s done to major league baseball and it’s seldom been good for management.

In addition, the league Goodell runs will bring in over $14 billion this season in total revenue with over $8 billion of it in national revenue. That will provide each team with about $250 million each from shared revenue before their individual (and mostly unshared) local revenues are counted, so the idea that 70,000 sots waving towels with a clown nose on them is something Goodell is concerned about is laughable.

Truth be told, in addition to producing ever-increasing piles of cash for his 32 bosses, the Commish’s job is to take the heat for them. He gets the clown-nose treatment and in exchange gets to build a mansion in Maine.

Not a bad trade off if you ask me.

So wave your towels with the Commish’s face sporting a clown nose in his direction tonight if you’d like. Just don’t forget he’s sitting in a free seat and you’re paying through the nose for yours.