The NFL commissioner
garnered a
19 percent favorable rating and 40 percent unfavorable rating from fans. His job approval rating comes in at 28 percent, 19 points less than
the mark Americans give President Barack Obama.
Goodell, the son of a U.S. senator and representative, surely understands the importance of public opinion.
One of the only instances of a president enduring a job approval rating identical to Goodell’s came when Iranians held Americans hostage in Tehran and the rate of inflation approached 11 percent. Apart from Jimmy Carter’s 28 percent job approval rating in June 1979, George W. Bush suffered during the economic collapse near the end of his second term with a 25 percent approval rating, Richard Nixon posted a 24 percent rating immediately before his resignation, and
Harry Truman, mired in an unpopular war in Korea, elicited the worst presidential approval rating in Gallup history at 22 percent in February of 1952.
Roger Goodell's Job Approval Ranks with Least Popular Presidents in History - Breitbart