The depressing truth about Roger

[QuantumMechanic]

Sadly, I think The Ringer has it dead right with this one.

There is one thing that matters to Goodell above everything else: the regard of team owners, who alone have the power to remove him from his job. And one thing matters most to those owners: that the NFL remains ludicrously profitable. Goodell has done a mighty job of that. Revenue this season is projected to surpass $13 billion, nearly double what it was in his first year as commissioner. Team values rose 19 percent from 2015 to 2016 alone. This year, the league bounced back?—?though not totally?—?from sagging ratings, in large part thanks to Goodell and Co.’s manipulation of the schedule, including flexing a playoff game due to “ice.”

Indeed, the Patriots being in the Super Bowl is almost certainly a good thing for Goodell, all but guaranteeing that the game will draw big ratings. And ironically, the interest that Goodell’s feud with the team generates may make it even more of a spectacle. And so the wheels keep turning.

The Secretly Good Super Bowl of Roger Goodell

 

[mosi]

I think they are right. I don't think Goodell cares one bit about Brady or the Pats. He just wants the money. If the Pats win, they will make money. If the pats lose, they will make money.

 

[Minitron]

The only thing that matters for Godell is making big $$$.

 

[fnordcircle]

Roger's just the bagman for Mara and a few other ****head owners who are jealous of the Pats.

Doesn't mean I like him or forgive him but he's just an easily manipulated idiot who is happy to follow orders.

 

[JJC]

This gives Roger too much credit. He is the essence of the empty corporate suit.

He has no core, no moral center, nothing. He is a sock puppet with all the owners' hands up his backside – and he's fine with that.

Sure, he gets paid well and on the surface it seems like it's about the money. It's not. It's all about the perceptions and trappings of power. This is a guy who is incapable of generating and original idea, executing a great idea, or actually making anything with his own hands. He's useless in and of himself. His only utility is to serve as a thin veneer to mask the venal, crass, greedy interests of the owners.

Somewhere along the line, his lack of mental acuity and an inability to assess his true role led him to believe that he was his role. But due to sheer incompetence, he can only manifest this as making others wait for him to take the first bite of pizza at a meeting or be intimidated into not asking the obvious follow up when he doesn't answer a direct question.

He is a vacuous idiot, tool, puppet, and possibly a child molester. (why not?!)

The real evil is the 32 that empowered him. He is just the banality of that evil.

 

[Tony2046]

Yep that's the reality. WWE. Fake Reality shows. Biased media. Political spin masters. #Integrity = jack **** nowadays.

 

[oldrover]

 

[RobertWeathers]

Sadly, I think The Ringer has it dead right with this one.

The Secretly Good Super Bowl of Roger Goodell

I've felt this way for some time.

Goodell is an idiot but he is not stupid.

He is a classic example of "managing up"

His existence, importance and relevance is based on money. Everything else is irrelevant.

His definition of "integrity" is ensuring the apparatus of the "integrity" of the structure the NFL has in place to make money remains sound and uncompromised.

When you don't have a soul, you can live your life like this.

 

[IllegalContact]

if someone paid that much to be an *******, I'd be an *******

 

[JJC]

if someone paid that much to be an *******, I'd be an *******

Call me self destructive, but I couldn't do it. I have been asked to be that guy. I have been offered numerous opportunities in the past thirty years to travel that path. I couldn't do it.

It doesn't start with, "Hey, if we pay you $35M to be a ****, will you be our ****?"

It starts with a very obtuse way of saying, "Someone needs to be scapegoated for this project's failure. We want to hang it on Marty, but we don't have the documentation or evidence to do that. Someone who could frame it correctly, might get rewarded with a plum assignment, a raise, or a promotion."

Once you accept those terms, they now have something on you and own you. The "ask" gets continually uglier and the perks get continually more seductive. On the surface, it looks awesome. More often than not, you end up with a divorce, a drinking/drug problem, kids who hate you, and a circle of co-workers whom you don't trust - because it might be your turn next to get a knife in the back.

Eh, maybe overly dramatic - but I watched this and variations of this over my career and chose to tell those who asked those questions to GFY. Do I wish I had the money I could have made at those jobs? Sure. But I can't hang a price tag on the family stability and pride in my kids' achievements now that they are adults. Not sure that would have been possible, had I pursued the Wolf of Wall Street paths offered 25 years ago. I can live with that. It ain't about the money. At least for me.

 

[Nikolai]

Roger's just the bagman for Mara and a few other ****head owners who are jealous of the Pats.

Doesn't mean I like him or forgive him but he's just an easily manipulated idiot who is happy to follow orders.

He's the Yezhov to the Mara/Rooney Stalin. They're not his orders, but he's still a piece of ****.

/USSR history deep cut

 

[IllegalContact]

Call me self destructive, but I couldn't do it. I have been asked to be that guy. I have been offered numerous opportunities in the past thirty years to travel that path. I couldn't do it.

It doesn't start with, "Hey, if we pay you $35M to be a ****, will you be our ****?"

It starts with a very obtuse way of saying, "Someone needs to be scapegoated for this project's failure. We want to hang it on Marty, but we don't have the documentation or evidence to do that. Someone who could frame it correctly, might get rewarded with a plum assignment, a raise, or a promotion."

Once you accept those terms, they now have something on you and own you. The "ask" gets continually uglier and the perks get continually more seductive. On the surface, it looks awesome. More often than not, you end up with a divorce, a drinking/drug problem, kids who hate you, and a circle of co-workers whom you don't trust - because it might be your turn next to get a knife in the back.

Eh, maybe overly dramatic - but I watched this and variations of this over my career and chose to tell those who asked those questions to GFY. Do I wish I had the money I could have made at those jobs? Sure. But I can't hang a price tag on the family stability and pride in my kids' achievements now that they are adults. Not sure that would have been possible, had I pursued the Wolf of Wall Street paths offered 25 years ago. I can live with that. It ain't about the money. At least for me.

that's why he gets paid....otherwise he has no value

 

[turkeyneck]

And ironically, the interest that Goodell’s feud with the team generates may make it even more of a spectacle.

Maybe ironic for now. But I'm afraid good SB ratings will tempt Goodell and the NYJFL* into purposely manipulating story lines, edging more and more into WWE territory with its heels and faces, in an effort to reproduce that effect.

 

[Tuck]

This gives Roger too much credit. He is the essence of the empty corporate suit.

He has no core, no moral center, nothing. He is a sock puppet with all the owners' hands up his backside – and he's fine with that.

Sure, he gets paid well and on the surface it seems like it's about the money. It's not. It's all about the perceptions and trappings of power. This is a guy who is incapable of generating and original idea, executing a great idea, or actually making anything with his own hands. He's useless in and of himself. His only utility is to serve as a thin veneer to mask the venal, crass, greedy interests of the owners.

Somewhere along the line, his lack of mental acuity and an inability to assess his true role led him to believe that he was his role. But due to sheer incompetence, he can only manifest this as making others wait for him to take the first bite of pizza at a meeting or be intimidated into not asking the obvious follow up when he doesn't answer a direct question.

He is a vacuous idiot, tool, puppet, and possibly a child molester. (why not?!)

The real evil is the 32 that empowered him. He is just the banality of that evil.

I agree completely with your assessment. He's simply carrying water for the majority of the owners or at the very least a minority faction of more powerful owners. He's making roughly $40 mil a year so there's no way he would jeopardize such an incredibly lucrative gig by going rouge and pushing his own agenda. By taking this strategy he protects himself and his million dollar pay checks indefinitely or until there is a time he chooses the wrong side amongst the owners and he becomes seen as an obstacle to the pore powerful side at which point he's toast.

 

[SlowGettingUp]

The other side of this coin is that Roger is viewed as a joke, not just by Pats fans but also by many others. He's likely to collect some boos at the Super Bowl, and the televised "where is Roger?" chants must also be embarrassing for the league.

So from the owners' viewpoint, why not simply replace him by someone with more credibility? It's not like Roger has some secret sauce that his replacement would miss.

 

[RobertWeathers]

if someone paid that much to be an *******, I'd be an *******

You already are and thats why the board likes you.

 

[BTTA]

Sadly, I think The Ringer has it dead right with this one.



The Secretly Good Super Bowl of Roger Goodell

The beginning of the end may be with ESPN's financial plight. That may be a snowball that gathers up the NFL on its way down the hill. The next NFL TV contract may be a lot smaller.

 

[QuantumMechanic]

The beginning of the end may be with ESPN's financial plight. That may be a snowball that gathers up the NFL on its way down the hill. The next NFL TV contract may be a lot smaller.

I'll be rooting for it. They can all burn.

 

[Edelmania]

Yeah and if there was a different commissioner that railroad teams and screw up things like ray rice they would have even more profit.

 

[IllegalContact]

You already are and thats why the board likes you.

Just imagine if you paid me