took a deep dive<\/a> into the man who has both guided the league to unprecedented wealth and managed to avoid many\/any serious threats to his indefinite tenure.<\/p>\nHere\u2019s one tidbit that stands out in the article from Albert Breer: “[M]any colleagues, adversaries and associates casually refer to [Goodell] as a bully. One well-respected decision-maker from a 2024 playoff team asserted it\u2019s even worse: \u2018He\u2019s a silver spoon senator\u2019s son who thinks he\u2019s a bully. But he\u2019s really not.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a fairly damning assessment. And the reporting includes enough tidbits to narrow the universe of potential sources. Fourteen teams make the playoffs; the quote came from one of those teams. And the person is a \u201cwell-respected decision maker,\u201d which points to a more established and well-known name.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear what \u201cdecision maker\u201d means. Probably not the coach. Probably not the owner. Maybe the G.M.<\/p>\n
Whoever it is, chances are Goodell has spent a little time since the story landed trying to figure it out.<\/p>\n
Still, whatever Goodell is doing, it\u2019s working. The league is closing in on his longstanding goal to get to $25 billion in annual revenue by 2027. And there\u2019s no clear successor who could come in and steer the ship the way Goodell has.<\/p>\n
It remains to be seen how much longer Goodell, 66, stays on the job. Presumably, the league will be looking for another long-term captain when the time comes to hire only its fourth Commissioner since the final year of the Eisenhower administration.<\/p>\n
Since January 1960, the NFL has had only three commissioners: Pete Rozelle, Paul Tagliabue, and Goodell. If Goodell finishes the current decade in the job, that\u2019ll be three leaders in seventy years.<\/p>\n
That continuity in the sport\u2019s most important position surely has helped the NFL to become the force it now is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 season marks Commissioner Roger Goodell\u2019s 20th in the job. And there\u2019s no indication that he\u2019ll be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-153856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}