![]() If you are not particularly fond of The Commish, those numbers might be hard to swallow but consider two other points: So, it would appear as if he earned about 42% of his annual salary in bonuses. If correct he would have earned $88M over the past two years simply by managing not to get fired. Previous reports said – and I have no way to corroborate or deny those reports – that Goodell’s base salary was $44M a year. So, back to Roger Goodell and the reported $125M he got as salary plus bonuses over the last two years. The next time someone asks you how teams can afford to have 20 assistant coaches and trainers and scouts, remember this ballpark number for 2021. So, just from the TV deals, each NFL owner is $114.5M to the good this year.Granted the salary cap figures for 2021 are depressed due to reduced in-game revenues in 2020 due to the pandemic, but the salary cap for 2021 is only $182.5M.That money is pocketed by the owners before they ever sell a single ticket or have anyone buy a team jersey or sign a “partnership deal” or a “naming rights deal”. That leaves $9.5B to be shared equally among 32 teams meaning each team would get $297M from the TV deals alone.Suppose the NFL HQs skims 5% off the top of that revenue to help keep the lights on in the league Front Office. TV deals this year bring in $10B in round numbers.Let me try to put those financial issues into perspective by doing some back-of-the-envelope calculations here: What those deals do is to lock in about $110-115B in revenue over the life of those deals. Goodell also oversaw the negotiations with the TV networks some of which run even longer than the 10-year CBA does.The value of franchises just keeps going up and up owners have to love that. Goodell oversaw CBA negotiations with the NFLPA resulting in a 10-year deal that guarantees labor peace and guarantees owners generous profits over the time of that labor deal. ![]() Roger Goodell is not solely responsible for the league’s profitability and popularity, but he was directly involved in two things that made life better for team owners – – and remember, it is the team owners who hire/fire NFL Commissioners. Notwithstanding the lower in-stadium attendance, when you measure the NFL on things like revenue (up over 2014), public awareness (try to read a sports section today where there is no mention of the NFL) and TV ratings (the NFL is the highest rated show on all five networks that telecast NFL games), things are more than hunky-dory. In 20, attendance for the NFL is down from where it was in 2014, and just about everyone knows that the pandemic has a lot to do with that. That role does not mesh well with ‘grow the league’ and ‘deal constructively with the union’.” Unfortunately, they also seem to carry the burden of history with them, and they are also expected to be ‘The Disciplinarian’. All of those are intertwined but when you take them as a package and add to them the responsibility to deal constructively with the players’ union, you have the modern set of responsibilities for a league commissioner. “The job of the commissioner is to grow the league and the measures of league growth are things like revenue, attendance, public awareness, TV ratings etc. Here is what I think is the relevant passage from that rant in 2014: I did a rant on that specific subject in September 2014 if you want to read it in its entirety, here is the link. My problem came from the fact that Goodell’s real job has little to nothing to do with handing down discipline. However, on reflection, I then came to realize that the root of my problem with Goodell was his position as the NFL’s disciplinarian was not with Roger Goodell as the league’s commissioner. ![]() Let me try to justify that statement…īack in 2014 in the aftermath of the “Ray Rice Incident”, I and many others found fault with the NFL and Roger Goodell in the handling of that matter and the discipline handed down. I have had differences with Goodell and some of his decisions over the years, but I am here to say today that he deserves that $125M. Last week, there was a report that NFL Commissioner, Roger Goodell, had earned – – well, at least he was paid – – a total of $125M in salary and bonuses over the last two years.
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