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NFL and Goodell threw the Dolphins under the bus.. Goodell shuold be replaced.

phinfan40353 said:
4,500 players sued the NFL and agreed to a settlement of $765M. Regardless if it holds up, let's do some quick math.

4,500 players voluntarily risked life and health and received a "represented" $1.7M per player to cover medical expenses and compensation for playing. That doesn't even touch the actual number of players that will also benefit from the "settlement".

Meanwhile, Goodell receives $44M for one year, sitting behind a desk reaping the benefits of the all the hard work and sacrifice, no matter the personal cost, of every coach, player, executive and owner who built the kingdom that he merely oversees and rules unchallenged.

He didn't build it. He didn't oversee its construction. He simply was tossed the keys and given the largest salary of anyone who did.

Seems about right.


The more I hear Goodell's name, the more I dislike the man.
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So you want him to give it back?

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I hate to break this to some of you, but Goodell is exactly who the owners want. You call him a tyrant but do you think the owners care if players get fined for behaving like jackasses or for injuring their investment? The rule changes are almost always for that purpose: protect the investment. I don't love a lot of the new rules but the majority of owners are only concerned with one thing: money. Football is a business today much more than it is a sport. Anything that will put asses in seats, will sell t.v. time, will sell merchandise, will bring in new fans, etc., the owners will go along with happily.
 
The NFL is as popular as it has ever been and continues to grow.

How does the state of the U.S. economy make you feel towards a president?

Owners are in the business of making money and business is goooooood. As long as the cash flows, Goodell is good. Teddy KGB would say, "Pey heem. Pey thiat man hees money."

Gentlemen- bail outs. The "Patriot Act". The Bush family flying many members of the Bin Laden family home within days after 9/11 when all other flights were grounded. A dime bag in your pocket and you may do more time than a panzi schemer. Bank of America, Chase, and Wells Fargo price-fixing.

You really think this is your America anymore? Rofl

Well, it is if you made 40 million a year.

Way it goes, gentlemen. Way it goes. The real golden rule: the man with the gold, makes the rules.
 
Geforce said:
Actually the Wells Report was released to minimize it's impact. Many in the media was going to be focused on the Olympic Games and the NBA All-Star Weekend and not what was in the report.
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Exactly. Alot of stories coming out of Washington DC are released on a Friday afternoon to negate their impact. It takes advantage of the typical Americans attention span.
 
JTC111 said:
I hate to break this to some of you, but Goodell is exactly who the owners want. You call him a tyrant but do you think the owners care if players get fined for behaving like jackasses or for injuring their investment? The rule changes are almost always for that purpose: protect the investment. I don't love a lot of the new rules but the majority of owners are only concerned with one thing: money. Football is a business today much more than it is a sport. Anything that will put asses in seats, will sell t.v. time, will sell merchandise, will bring in new fans, etc., the owners will go along with happily.
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Here is an article that alludes to much of your point.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell made $44.2 million in 2012
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/f...oger-goodell-made-44-2-2012-article-1.1615260

About 1 Million a pop per team that owners were more than happy to part with.
 
The release was designed to minimize its impact. It is called the Friday afternoon news dump for a reason. Add a three day weekend, Olympics, NBA All Star, and it is a forgotten story.
 
dabeastdabone said:
It isn't an issue of the OP if he is making to much or not. The issue is handling the release of information and minimizing the negative publicity to himself at the expense of a team and the league as a whole.
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Keeping the story away from the bandwagon Playoff/Super Bowl watchers is not stupid. There is a lot of financial activity with these groups of people.
Football meeting up with workplace legalities, was destined to collide. I always wished as a manager I could grab certain people by the proverbial 'face mask' or sit them on the proverbial 'bench' but you can't.
 
Goddell was hired by the owners to protect their investment and the players are exactly that, an investment.
He comes off as a tyrant because well he is. He is the collective voice of the owners and his job is to keep making the owners money and not tarnish their product.

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Tetragrammaton said:
The release was designed to minimize its impact. It is called the Friday afternoon news dump for a reason. Add a three day weekend, Olympics, NBA All Star, and it is a forgotten story.
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James is right as well. The NFL wanted this report to get as little attention as possible.
 
Goodell has been **** for a commish. He's a political bureaucrat. Hence why all this pc nonsense has gained such traction in the league. A good commish would tell cog and lil weirdo to suck a rail road spike. But he pretends that bullygate is important. He's just the conduit that has opened the league to being a tool for social engineering. Thats all.
 
I don't even understand the OP. How were the Dolphins thrown under the bus by the Wells report? The Wells report shielded the head coach and upper team management from blame of wrongdoing.
 
Goodell won't be replaced. He is making the NFL owners even richer and they're the guys paying him.
 
studsatele said:
Goodell has been **** for a commish. He's a political bureaucrat. Hence why all this pc nonsense has gained such traction in the league. A good commish would tell cog and lil weirdo to suck a rail road spike. But he pretends that bullygate is important. He's just the conduit that has opened the league to being a tool for social engineering. Thats all.
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Agreed. The "suck a railroad spike" line was hilarious.

The NFL is being a Johnny come lately on the anti-bullying issue. Last fall, it was (& maybe still is) the WWE's big Public Service cause.
 
I am outraged at Goodell's salary. That is an obscene amount of money.
The OP is making a valid point. I had no idea that the commish was making that kind of money. The report was going to get released, so the timing may have been a way to diminish both stories.
I am not buying another NFL item. This league is gone to crap IMHO
 
J. David Wannyheimer said:
I don't even understand the OP. How were the Dolphins thrown under the bus by the Wells report? The Wells report shielded the head coach and upper team management from blame of wrongdoing.
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more irrational conspiracy theories about the league having it out for the dolphins with no basis or rationale.
That being said , wow Goodall made that kind of money. Just another reason why communities should not be paying for stadiums
 
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