Post by RandyRatio on Nov 9, 2017 10:09:12 GMT -6
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.
Get your popcorn ready...
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
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."
"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...
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."
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