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Originally Posted by skinsfan69
I don't think you understood my post. Yes the folks who hire him (the owners) care. But does the average fan sit around and worry about whether or not the NFL is making money? No. They/We care about the game and how it's played. We don't give a damn about the business side.
I never said I was giving up on the NFL. I would never do that. But the shitty calls week after week after week totally ruins the fabric of what the game is all about. And he's the one pushing player safety. It's football. Guys are going to get hurt. If he's so worried about player safety then why did he want the players to play 18 games? So right there that tells me he's full of shit.
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Actually, I think I understood what your wrote quite well. The question is whether or not Roger Goodell is good for the NFL? And the answer to that is that he is fabulously good for the NFL.
Maybe you and a cadre of other fans do not like most of the things that he has done in his tenure as the Commish. That's fine. It is also irrelevant to the question about whether he is good for the NFL.
I know you didn't say you would give up on the NFL but my point is that unless you and several million of your closest friends do exactly that, then any rhetorical flourishes about how Roger Goodell is "ruining the game" or how you parse the evidence to conclude that he is "full of shit" (your words) are nothing more than hot air. The owners hired him and will keep him on as long as the money is right.
You and your friends - - the ones who agree with your complaints about how bad he is for the games - - are destined to be very unhappy folks for a LONG time because you don't care enough about the business side of the NFL to realize that is why Roger Goodell will stay there. And if you paid even a little attention to the business side you would realize that you and your firends are helping to assure that he stays there.
Oh, by the way, about the "shitty calls" that "ruin the fabric of the game", can you name for me any sport where fans do not complain about officiating? I cannot. And I spent 37 years of my life as a sporting official mainly in basketball but to include baseball, football, soccer and tennis. In that time, I never met an official who could say that fans were happy with all of his/her calls. And I worked for more people in the analgous position to "league commissioner" than I could count. Assigning ANY culpability for "shitty calls" (by your personal standard) to the NFL Commissioneer is quite a stretch.