Who is the worst commish among the 4??

[BradyFTW!]

As much as I hate Goodell, even I have to admit that Bettman's the worst. Two cancelled seasons this decade.

I don't particularly like any of them, but Stern's probably my 'favorite'. My issue with Selig is that he's a 78 year old man who's presiding over a sport that's facing a huge generational gap. It's not that I dislike him as much as I just don't think he's the right guy for the job, given the challenges that baseball will be facing in the near future.

Bettman and Goodell, OTOH, both truly suck and make their sports worse through their actions as commisioner.

 

[BradyFTW!]

Bettman is a convenient and easy whipping boy, but Pro hockey is facing the issue that ALL the other sports will face, soon. The NHL does not have a big time TV contract, unlike the other three sports. Yet pro hockey players believe they should be paid just like the other "major league" players. But the revenues to do so, are just not there. The NHL owners are talking reality, and no one wants to hear it.

One thing is aways true. Sooner or later, viewers grow bored and seek out something new. When viewer ship declines, the TV networks and their huge contracts WILL disapear. Without those TV revenues, the owners will HAVE to face the same issues that the NHL is now undergoing. No player in any sport is going to want his earnings cut, but eventually it is going to happen in every sport.

In our favorite sport, the signs are all there. Vitually all stadiums are sold out or nearly so. Ticket prices and concessions revenues are as well as box revenue is maxed out. Little room for increased local revenues exist. TV has expanded from Sundays afternoons, to include Monday evenings, Thursday evenings, and Sunday evenings. The feared TV over saturation is here now.

Fortunately a new TV contract exists, but I suspect the next one, if it even comes to pass, will not be larger. It might not even happen, and if it does it might actually be smaller. Then the NFL owners and NFLPA will be exactly where hockey is, at loggerheads.

Bettman gets the blame but it is misdirected.

As a pure Commissioner, Roger Goodell is easily the worst. Goodell by a Country mile.

The things that you described are exactly why the NFL and NBA both are obsessed with increasing their footprints internationally. If they succeed in that, then they'll be fine.

 

[jnug]

Battman by a landslide. After the damage that has occurred during his tenure how can anybody else even come close!

Two full blown work stoppages separated by a mere 5 years.....seemingly no ability to keep the owners from damaging themselves nor damaging the league which is really Battman's primary concern. NHL ends up with an absolute gift of a TV contract only to take it and sling it right into the gutter...incredible.

You might like to stick Goddell next but he would have to climb past Stern in the voting and Stern has got to be a solid two presiding over a league where the OFFICIALS have been caught with their hands in the till. That is only one of the NBA's many issues.

Goddell would be third for me with Uncle Bud the bimbo Selig the most competent of the four. Makes me want to throw up.

 

[Nikolai]

Bettman by a country mile. Three work stoppages during his tenure, and two lockouts in the last eight years make it a no brainer. I understand he carries water for the owners, but a good commissioner can navigate those pitfalls. His attempts to shoehorn hockey into non-hockey markets have largely failed and he still won't acknowledge it.

But none of them are great. We truly live in the golden age of the ****ty commissioners.

 

[MoLewisrocks]

Bettman is a convenient and easy whipping boy, but Pro hockey is facing the issue that ALL the other sports will face, soon. The NHL does not have a big time TV contract, unlike the other three sports. Yet pro hockey players believe they should be paid just like the other "major league" players. But the revenues to do so, are just not there. The NHL owners are talking reality, and no one wants to hear it.

One thing is aways true. Sooner or later, viewers grow bored and seek out something new. When viewer ship declines, the TV networks and their huge contracts WILL disapear. Without those TV revenues, the owners will HAVE to face the same issues that the NHL is now undergoing. No player in any sport is going to want his earnings cut, but eventually it is going to happen in every sport.

In our favorite sport, the signs are all there. Vitually all stadiums are sold out or nearly so. Ticket prices and concessions revenues are as well as box revenue is maxed out. Little room for increased local revenues exist. TV has expanded from Sundays afternoons, to include Monday evenings, Thursday evenings, and Sunday evenings. The feared TV over saturation is here now.

Fortunately a new TV contract exists, but I suspect the next one, if it even comes to pass, will not be larger. It might not even happen, and if it does it might actually be smaller. Then the NFL owners and NFLPA will be exactly where hockey is, at loggerheads.

Bettman gets the blame but it is misdirected.

As a pure Commissioner, Roger Goodell is easily the worst. Goodell by a Country mile.

The NFL has produced 23 of the top 25 rated programs this TV season... The NFL is now 24/7/365. The draft is a 3 day/night extravaganza. The NFL is on the cutting edge with new revenue streams linked to emerging technology. They can market friggin coaches film...3 days after the fact. At one point this season a CSNE replay of a BB presser beat out the Sox playing live on NESN.

 

[Tunescribe]

Selig is the worst by far. MLB is the most poorly administered professional sport on earth. The NFL has managed to survive Goodell and his nonsense -- we have a good thing going in spite of him.

 

[chris_in_sunnyvale]

Bettman. As part of the deal to end the 2004-2005 lockout, the owners got their salary cap they so desperately wanted. Then 8 years later they have another work stoppage?

Seriously messed up sport.

Regards,
Chris

 

[BradyFTW!]

The NFL has produced 23 of the top 25 rated programs this TV season... The NFL is now 24/7/365. The draft is a 3 day/night extravaganza. The NFL is on the cutting edge with new revenue streams linked to emerging technology. They can market friggin coaches film...3 days after the fact. At one point this season a CSNE replay of a BB presser beat out the Sox playing live on NESN.

Seriously. If the NFL has one thing going against it, it's that the sport itself doesn't have the international following that baseball, basketball, and hockey do. It's an American sport. But even that's changing.