Roger Goodell vs. NFL Owners

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Roger Goodell vs. NFL Owners Nov 9, 2017 10:09:12 GMT -6 Reignman likes this

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This story is getting juicy. Eff Roger Goodell and the high horse he sits on. Here's an ESPN report about Jerry Jones rallying other owners to prevent Goodell from signing an extension.

Sources told Outside the Lines that Jones is one of "four or five owners" who believe Goodell should not continue as commissioner. Another half-dozen owners were called "fence-sitters" by one source -- the exact group that Jones wants Boies to target.

"If he amasses 12 or 15 people, how does Roger survive something like that?" an executive asked. "I don't know how he'd be able to continue if that many owners express a lack of confidence in him."

Get your popcorn ready... *popcorn*

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."

Oh the sweet, sweet irony. Considering all NFL players are subject to having their salaries cut at any time without notice. Now he's furious that owners don't want his salary guaranteed.

Plenty more at the link: www.espn.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/21342623/jerry-jones-dallas-cowboys-threatens-sue-nfl-roger-goodell

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Roger Goodell vs. NFL Owners Nov 9, 2017 13:25:24 GMT -6 Reignman, RandyRatio, and 1 more like this

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Post by Breeze on Nov 9, 2017 13:25:24 GMT -6

i really dislike what the nfl has become under goodell. if the vikes would just win a superbowl, i'd stop watching in all honesty.

goodell is a goon....and it's on the owners more than anything.

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Roger Goodell vs. NFL Owners Nov 9, 2017 13:43:45 GMT -6 Breeze likes this

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Nov 9, 2017 13:25:24 GMT -6 Breeze said:

i really dislike what the nfl has become under goodell. if the vikes would just win a superbowl, i'd stop watching in all honesty.

goodell is a goon....and it's on the owners more than anything.

Agreed. The owners were the ones that gave Goodell the power to suspend players the way he sees fit. It's never been consistent, and now he's turned into this power hungry control freak because of it. He's given the league multiple self-inflicted black eyes with some of the messes he's created. He also saturated the market with too much football. He'll never give up Thursday Night Football, even though it completely contradicts their agenda for "player safety". There's only a couple of things that keeps me interested in football - the fact the Vikings are good, and fantasy football. By next year I may give up fantasy football all together. If the Vikings aren't good, I would check out completely.

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Roger Goodell vs. NFL Owners Nov 9, 2017 14:15:30 GMT -6

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Post by Breeze on Nov 9, 2017 14:15:30 GMT -6

from what i have seen, all goodell is amounts to giving the owner's some conjured sense of plausible deniability when it comes to the multiple contradictions that permeate nfl policies, especially the player safety issue, and enforcement of ownership agendas. PROFIT.

now jerry jones is pissed because of elliot. his reasons for wanting to move on from goodell don't feel authentic to me.

more of the same manipulation IMO.

maybe jones has more vision than that...i dunno.

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Roger Goodell vs. NFL Owners Nov 11, 2017 12:07:12 GMT -6 HunterMorrow likes this

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Nov 9, 2017 14:15:30 GMT -6 Breeze said:

from what i have seen, all goodell is amounts to giving the owner's some conjured sense of plausible deniability when it comes to the multiple contradictions that permeate nfl policies, especially the player safety issue, and enforcement of ownership agendas. PROFIT.

now jerry jones is pissed because of elliot. his reasons for wanting to move on from goodell don't feel authentic to me.

more of the same manipulation IMO.

maybe jones has more vision than that...i dunno.

Yeah, if someone else was leading this charge, I think I'd take it more seriously.

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Roger Goodell vs. NFL Owners Nov 11, 2017 12:13:31 GMT -6 Breeze likes this

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Post by Funkytown on Nov 11, 2017 12:13:31 GMT -6

ESPN: Jerry Jones: Goodell extension should be approved by all owners, 'not just a few'

While not pleased that Elliott has been suspended for six games after the running back's latest legal battle fell short, Jones' bigger issue is with the compensation committee's negotiations over commissioner Roger Goodell's new contract.

"I basically feel this extension of Roger should go and be reviewed and approved by all the owners, not just a few of the owners," Jones said Friday on 105.3 The Fan in Dallas. "The committee that basically negotiates the salary with our commissioner is taking the view, especially the chairman, that they, in a limited group, can complete this agreement. I disagree.

"This is simply about making sure that all clubs have input into not only the commissioner [and] his extension, but also in future years, his decisions," Jones continued. "We all see how impactful a commissioner's decision can be in many areas. We've given him a lot of power. I think we need the checks and balances of ownership having to actually be in a position to not just suggest but approve of his decisions. So that's what this is about."

Link: www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/21364536/dallas-cowboys-owner-jerry-jones-said-possible-lawsuit-vs-nfl-do-ezekiel-elliott-situation

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Roger Goodell vs. NFL Owners Nov 11, 2017 17:52:34 GMT -6

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Post by Breeze on Nov 11, 2017 17:52:34 GMT -6

that was the 'vision' i was referring to.
i agree with jones on that account....but if you feel that way why didn't you say something whenever he was originally vote in?

or is the small ownership group only making the decision on his extension?

maybe it's covered in the article....i didn't read it. espn makes my stomach hurt.

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Nov 11, 2017 17:52:34 GMT -6 Breeze said:

that was the 'vision' i was referring to.
i agree with jones on that account....but if you feel that way why didn't you say something whenever he was originally vote in?

or is the small ownership group only making the decision on his extension?

maybe it's covered in the article....i didn't read it. espn makes my stomach hurt.

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Roger Goodell vs. NFL Owners Nov 13, 2017 10:00:46 GMT -6

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Jerry wants to overthrow Goodell

At the heart of the dispute between Jones and the league is guaranteed money. And he is right about the current contract Goodell has: The guaranteed compensation, with no performance aspect to it, seems excessive bordering on avaricious. A little history is in order.

Months ago, when the Compensation Committee was beginning its work in earnest to extend Goodell’s contract, he made an unexpected offer to the committee. Two sources told The MMQB that Goodell said he would give up the vast majority of guaranteed money in his next contract, because he knew some owners had become uncomfortable in guaranteeing virtually all of the compensation on Goodell’s pact.

“I’m willing to bet on myself,” Goodell said in that meeting.

According to a source with knowledge of the call, the Dallas Cowboys owner said he had “papers drawn up” in the event that the current proposed Goodell deal was finalized. That deal would extend Goodell’s contract through 2024, (if completed, it would make his commissioner’s tenure 18 years). Jones, it was clear from this call, wanted the committee to take the unprecedented step of sending the finalized deal back to the entire membership for possible adjustment or cancellation.

“Are you telling us you’re prepared to file litigation against us?” committee member John Mara of the Giants asked, according to the source. Jones, a former disciple of the late, contentious Raiders owner Al Davis, said he was, per the source.

The committee will address Goodell’s salary and compensation package. The last written counterproposal from Goodell, which was around the first of August, was seeking about $50 million per year, as well as the lifetime use of a private jet and lifetime health insurance for his family, according to a source familiar with the negotiations.

Goodell currently makes around $30 million a year.

One NFL owner told ESPN that there are “several owners in this league who don’t make $40 million a year.” The owner was referring to the salaries that owners take, which does not include the increase in valuations that each NFL franchise has undergone.

This is getting crazy. And f*ck Roger Goodell for his contract demands. What a slap to the face for players who built the league to where it is today. They fight tooth and nail for health insurance benefits. Goodell asks for lifetime health insurance for him and his family, as well as lifetime use of a private jet. Get off your high horse.

www.si.com/nfl/2017/11/12/jerry-jones-roger-goodell-new-contract

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Roger Goodell vs. NFL Owners Nov 13, 2017 14:49:00 GMT -6

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Post by HunterMorrow on Nov 13, 2017 14:49:00 GMT -6

The balls of this guy to see television ratings down 20 percent in the past 3 seasons, then want another 20 million dollar a year and his own private jet! Rightly or wrongly, he's lost a substantial portion of viewers and public sentiment for the NFL is at an all time low.

At 34 million dollars a year, he's getting paid at least 10 million dollars a year than QBs who have won Super Bowls. That's ridiculous. I had no idea his guaranteed pay at one point exceeded FORTY MILLION DOLLARS. I'd be pretty upset with that if I were an owner.

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Roger Goodell vs. NFL Owners Nov 13, 2017 18:21:18 GMT -6

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Post by Minniman on Nov 13, 2017 18:21:18 GMT -6

How does a sports league retain tax exempt status when they pay the commissioner $30-$40 million in a season? Owners and players should make money, but the monopoly supply and demand has to be regulated.

Goodell and the owners should be happy because Congress and President Trump want to give them extensive tax cuts. I guess they aren't making enough.

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Roger Goodell vs. NFL Owners Nov 16, 2017 20:14:06 GMT -6

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Ooo, baby! *popcorn*

NFL Discusses Removal Of Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones, Says He’s “Damaging The League” — Report

According to the Wall Street Journal, a letter from the league, which was shared with the league’s 32 owners, was sent to Jones’ attorney David Boies and said that Jones’ “antics, whatever their motivation, are damaging the League.” This comes after Boies sent another letter on Tuesday saying that Jones had a document that shows that certain statements made about Goodell’s negotiations “are not accurate.”

League owners have discussed Jones’ removal, according to the WSJ. His removal would have to be based on conduct that would be detrimental to the league, which was covered in the aforementioned letter from the NFL to Boies.

In a radio interview earlier this week Jones said that his possible removal from the league is “ridiculous.”

Link: deadline.com/2017/11/nfl-dallas-cowboys-jerry-jones-roger-goodell-1202209516/

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Roger Goodell vs. NFL Owners Nov 16, 2017 22:32:36 GMT -6

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Nov 16, 2017 20:14:06 GMT -6 Funkytown said:

Ooo, baby! *popcorn*

NFL Discusses Removal Of Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones, Says He’s “Damaging The League” — Report

According to the Wall Street Journal, a letter from the league, which was shared with the league’s 32 owners, was sent to Jones’ attorney David Boies and said that Jones’ “antics, whatever their motivation, are damaging the League.” This comes after Boies sent another letter on Tuesday saying that Jones had a document that shows that certain statements made about Goodell’s negotiations “are not accurate.”

League owners have discussed Jones’ removal, according to the WSJ. His removal would have to be based on conduct that would be detrimental to the league, which was covered in the aforementioned letter from the NFL to Boies.

In a radio interview earlier this week Jones said that his possible removal from the league is “ridiculous.”

Link: deadline.com/2017/11/nfl-dallas-cowboys-jerry-jones-roger-goodell-1202209516/

Sounds like war, should be interesting. We shall see who will win. Hope for his sake Jones has an accurate owner count. Otherwise he could be sueing, and possibly not winning.