Being the NFL commissioner is a pretty cushy job—as long as you can take the heat. Not everybody is built for it, surely, but at least publicly, Roger Goodell doesn’t seem to have a huge problem with being widely hated by almost everybody who knows anything about him short of those for whom he makes the most money.
And it’s the people he makes money for whose voices ultimately matter when determining how much longer he’s going to be around. Based on yesterday’s events, we should probably settle in for more of Goodell for the foreseeable future. The owners passed a measure to open negotiations for a new contract extension by a 31-1 margin.