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Gene Collier: NFL commissioner surely enjoys his paydays, but not much else

By Gene Collier / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Just one more tumultuous summer separates Roger Goodell from his 10th season as NFL commissioner, but he’s already set a career record that might never be broken.

That’s the record for Most Phone Conversations That Started Essentially Like This:

“Hello … what? … wait, he what!?”

Or …

“Hello … what? … wait, they what!?

Like him or loathe him, Goodell’s near decade-long sentence of mucking through one toxic issue after the next would be perhaps unprecedented and even worthy of a decent dose of generic sympathy were it not for that $44 million salary of his.