NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell recently signed an extension to remain the league’s chief through the 2027 season. 98.7 ESPN New York’s Don La Greca believes Goodell gets too much praise for something anyone could do.
While discussing changes he’d like to see made to the NFL during The Michael Kay Show, La Greca argued that Goodell has the easiest negotiating job in television.
“This is gonna get me fired but fine, I will spend more time with the family. Everybody gives Roger Goodell like a billion dollars because he negotiates these television contracts. I could walk in there and go ‘Blah!’, and they’ll give me 6 billion to broadcast the games,” La Greca said. “You know why? Because it’s football! There’s football! But here I am off the top of my head, just having a conversation my buddy Peter (Rosenberg), and I’m revolutionizing the game of football. You don’t have to pay me just give me the NFL Sunday Ticket for free. How about that?”
Don La Greca continued by questioning why Goodell is so well compensated when the product is what brings in billions, and not his negotiating skills.
“You know what my speech would be? So long as I’m offering you football, do you realize that nearly 20 million people watched Cowboys/Chargers to see the two teams — combined — commit 19 penalties? 20 million people watched it! There was a baseball playoff game up against it. 3.7 million (viewers). So what negotiating skills does it take to walk into the office when you’ve got football in your back pocket?”
