Roger Goodell Is Reportedly Irate At The Idea Of His Contract Extension Being Performance-Based11/9/2017 ESPN- A person who spoke recently with Goodell said the commissioner is "furious" about Jones' and other owners' insistence that his next contract's compensation should be more performance-based, including incentives that would allow him to be paid at roughly the same level of his current deal. "He feels as if the owners have made a lot of money and he should be compensated accordingly," the source said. "The incentives thing really angers him."
Goodell has earned a total of more than $200 million since he was elected commissioner in August 2006, including $44 million in 2014 and $34 million in 2015. In May, at the league's spring meetings in Chicago, Jones joined his fellow owners in authorizing the compensation committee to work on extending Goodell's contract. But at the owners' meetings in New York last month, Jones told his fellow owners that Goodell's proposed next contract "is the most one-sided deal ever." -------- First and foremost, it's impossible not to suppress a belly laugh with a condescending "oh realllllly?" when you hear that the man who has been cashing well over 8 figures a year to fill the roles of judge, jury, and executioner against athletes playing on non-guaranteed contracts is bitching about the prospect of having to earn his money. Obviously, part of the reason he's allegedly fuming is because "earning his money" really just means earning more money for a bunch of wealthy, old white dudes who don't care that the President and piss poor quarterback play have made sure that the NFL has nowhere to go but down in terms of popularity. Regardless, Roger Goodell has made $200 million off the backs of people that actually possess a talent (other than the ability to accept a disproportional amount of blame) whose job security is as forever fleeting as Jerry Jones filter. The idea that the shoe being on the other foot has him about ready stomp his feet like a kid being withheld a supermarket sweep of the candy aisle is nothing short of hilarious. All that being said? I would be just as pissed off if I were Roger Goodell. The guy has been taken proverbial bullets for the owners for years, and now they want to protect their future investment because he's riddled with holes? I don't want to come as if I am defending the Commissioner of the NFL, but I think it's fair to say that he's only half as much of a jackass as his constituents demand that he be. If there is one thing we've learned from this kneeling nonsense it's that the vast majority of people that call an NFL franchise their own are irredeemable assholes with priorities that don't extend further than their pockets. If Bob McNair's casually criminal colloquialism didn't prove that to you, then Jerry Jones' hiring of the moral compass-free man that took on the case of one of Hollywood's most reprehensible perverts in Harvey Weinstein should probably do the trick. You can say that Colin Kaepernick accomplished nothing with his protest (even though you'd be very, very wrong), but he somehow managed to turn Roger Goodell into a good guy relative to those that he represents. Before one single knee was taken we would have deemed that nearly as impossible as the job that he's being asked to do in making a multi-billion dollar industry a more profitable entity while it's being used as a political pawn in a game of chess that's destined to end in a stalemate. I shed no tears for a hypocritical buffoon whose annual earnings might drop to 30-35 million dollars a year, but I could see why he'd want to retain his "one-sided deal" when the other side is only slightly less thankless than the NFL is to those that are forced to play through financial insecurity.
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