Roger Goodell made $30 million in 2011

Lets think about this in a different way. Kraft has a 1,000,000,000.00 investment as does Jerry Jones, Daniel Snyder, etc. Some teams are worth less, but still in the 9 figure range.

They each foot 1/32nd of Goodell's salary, so call is 30mm/32 teams or $950,000 roughly.

950,000/1,000,000,000 = .00095

So lets scale that back to main street from wall street.

You and your wife make a modest 100k investment in the town's ice cream parlor. You willing to pay the manager 95 dollars a year to make sure the 16 yr old kids scooping ice cream dont rule the roost and erode your investment.

Joker said:

your immediate and caustic outrage at my innocuous post is noted....now FOAD

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i'd really be interested to know who the owners could hire to get "more bang for their buck" to run a $10b / year company. the 32 owners have a little experience in running companies / building empires but i guess it is plausible they got raked over the coals on the comp package awarded to goodell that they each fund.

Joker said:

your immediate and caustic outrage at my innocuous post is noted....now FOAD

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Your post was way off the mark, he corrected it. Don't be butt hurt.

jmt57 said:

Though legally legitimate, the concept of a $30 million annual salary to the head of a non-profit agency seems like an oxymoron.

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Not really. Non-profits aren't what we thought they were. Remember the uproar over the salaries at the Kennedy Greenway? What we find out is - these organizations are rolling in money. Hence, the staff get highly paid. And then it becomes self fulfilling. My lieutenants are paid x - I should be paid x plus whatever. For the amount of income the NFL generates, a crazy high salary doesn't seem so crazy.

gomezcat said:

. Is February 16th the equivalent of April Fool's Day in the States? This guy is the second-worst commissioner ever in American sports. He is only second because the NHL guy, whose name I am too lazy to google, clearly hates (Ice) Hockey.

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Yeah. Sure. Goodell is doing a horrible job. All those tecord TV ratings and league revenue proves it.

Wait-whuh??!

As others have said, he's led his corporation to even greater riches.

People pile on him, but I think he's done a (relatively) good job, considering the general commisioner/league president field out there.

Certainly the best commissioner of the big 4, and miles better than FIFA as a whole anyway.

jbb9s said:

hey bud, i'd stick to football analysis and hold off your biz knowledge. "

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Actually, his football analysis is as poor and off the mark as his business acumen.

Wolfpack said:

Yeah. Sure. Goodell is doing a horrible job. All those tecord TV ratings and league revenue proves it.

Wait-whuh??!

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That would have happened with, or without, Goodell.

AndyJohnson said:

The owners pay roughly $4,000,000,000 in player salaries.
It doesn't seem bizarre that they pay the leader of their organization less than 1% of that.
Regardless of what you think if the quality of job he is doing, the job has an exhorbitant amount of value.

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No player makes $30 million a year. The comparison with all players isn't really valid.

However, his compensation is not unusual given the League's results and Goodell's inability to accumulate equity.

Tunescribe said:

So, you're saying that Kraft's supposedly breakthrough intervention was a premeditated contrivance?

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Classic good cop bad cop. Goodell held the hard line all summer and when everyone was convinced that all was lost they rolled Robert out to make the players feel they were dealing with someone who had their best interest at heart. And it worked. Just so happens Robert believes that a strong league starts with healthy profit margins for ownership who are best equipped to utilize excess revenue to reinvest in the product and grow it for future generations as opposed to the majority of players who blow it on bling and entourages and foolhardy investments or their union who spends it all on lawyers.

Deus Irae said:

That would have happened with, or without, Goodell.

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What makes you so sure? The NFL never achieved this level of popularity or stability under Tagliabue.

Deus Irae said:

That would have happened with, or without, Goodell.

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Wolfpack said:

What makes you so sure? The NFL never achieved this level of popularity or stability under Tagliabue.

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People in Australia say the same thing about Adrian Demetriou, CEO of the AFL (NFL equivalent). The game never reached the lofty heights of today under his predecessor Wayne Jackson.

Wolfpack said:

What makes you so sure? The NFL never achieved this level of popularity or stability under Tagliabue.

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Ok, you're just trolling. I forgot who I was responding to. My mistake there.

TomPatriot said:

No player makes $30 million a year. The comparison with all players isn't really valid.

However, his compensation is not unusual given the League's results and Goodell's inability to accumulate equity.

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Of course the comparision is valid. The owners put their interests in Goddells hands. Part of that interest is a $4,000,000,000 player payroll expense.

Not sure what you are trying to say with the second sentence.

Uncle Rico said:

Legally, yes, the NFL is a non-profit.

http://www.patsfans.com/new-england-patriots/messageboard/10/1009156-ot-goodell-made-30-million-2011-a-page3.html#post3375654

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That is incredibly misleading.
The NFL OFFICES are non-profit.
That is because all of the revenue they generate is past on to the individual teams.
The entity that the owners established to work for them collectively is non profit, but the people who pay Goddell are for profit companies.

If they were willing to give him 30M imagine what they're making after crying poor and squeezing the players.

AndyJohnson said:

That is incredibly misleading.
The NFL OFFICES are non-profit.
That is because all of the revenue they generate is past on to the individual teams.
The entity that the owners established to work for them collectively is non profit, but the people who pay Goddell are for profit companies.

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True. The individual franchises are exactly that - franchises that are for-profit. But Goodell works for a non-profit that levies fees and sets the rules for the franchisees. None of which is to say that the NFL cannot take in more money than it spends.

goheels22002 said:

True. The individual franchises are exactly that - franchises that are for-profit. But Goodell works for a non-profit that levies fees and sets the rules for the franchisees. None of which is to say that the NFL cannot take in more money than it spends.

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But the fines go directly to charity. The only revenue the NFL has is the bill it sends to owners for expenses, which is why this is very misleading.
Its like saying the IT department of your company is non profit.

everlong said:

If they were willing to give him 30M imagine what they're making after crying poor and squeezing the players.

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Right because the smart thing to do would be to say they had too much money, and negotiate a deal where they give more away than they need to.

Supposedly all fine money goes to NFL backed charities. I didn't realize they had a charity named "Roger".