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If any of you had even thought remotely that the NFL and the NFLPA is actually run like a real-world business, a new piece by Daniel Kaplan in Sports Business Journal should dispel any of those notions once and for all. After Gene Upshaw’s compensation last year was revealed to be over $6 million (including “bonuses”), newly disclosed tax returns from the league revealed that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell received $6.5 million for his 7 months of work last year. That translates into a whopping $11.2 million annual salary for the new commissioner. I’m not sure what you have to do to earn almost $1 million a month in salary but a lot of us can list a lot of things he’s not doing. Read Daniel Kaplan’s article HERE.

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1. Brent Boyd
   February 26th, 2008 at 7:08 pm #

   Dave,
   congrats on your new site.

   this news about Goodell is like someone backed up a cement truck and dumped another full load of degradation on us retired players. How much more will we take?

   Goodell and Upshaw didn’t see it as worth their time to attend last June’s House Judiciary hearing, both fled the country as their own business was being investigated by the the US Congress.

   Had they been there, they would have heard Dennis Curran and Doug Ell confirm the total payout for disabled NFL players is approx $20 million a year.

   Goodell and Upshaw didn’t care, now we know why. between them, THEY earn about $20 million themselves.

   Like the robber barons of old, why should they care about the laborers upon whose backs their fortunes were made possible?

   Let us eat cake..

   or, as I said that day and before, “delay, deny, and hope we die”…many of us will be dead long before any justice is handed out.

   we’ve got to unite and fight, we’ve got ‘em beat if we hang tough together

   Thanks,
   Brent Boyd