Barstool and the NFL do not see eye-to-eye. That is well-documented. While the league did eventually relent and let the Barstool podcast Bussin’ With the Boys record shows from Media Row last week, Dave Portnoy doesn’t expect that he and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell will ever see eye-to-eye.
New York street journalist Adam Glyn caught up with Portnoy in Arizona last week and asked if he could ever see a day when Goodell gets over the issues he has with Portnoy and Barstool.
“I guess when your job is to just be a dog that gets kicked around, you know, he has no talent. He doesn’t have any brains. He’s just a punching bag for the owners and takes all the heat. You have to have some kind of authority,” Portnoy said. “It’s like small d**k syndrome. Like a guy that drives a big truck. He has no self-confidence in himself, so this is the one thing he can stick with.”
There have been several public headbutts between the NFL and Barstool. They have included Portnoy being arrested for protesting outside of the league offices, him being removed from Super Bowl media night, Roger Goodell being questioned about his feelings on the company in front of Congress, and Barstool printing t-shirts featuring the commissioner wearing a clown nose.
In May 2020, Dave Portnoy won a charity auction to watch Monday Night Football in Roger Goodell’s home. The league refused to accept the winning bid. Portnoy told Glyn that amounted to “stealing from charity”. He also said that Goodell refuses to see the value of letting the feud go.
“If Goodell even had an ounce of self-awareness, he’d laugh it off and it’d be done, but he takes himself so seriously.”
