In what is clearly the greatest and most generous news of all time, it has been reported that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell will not be taking a salary for himself while the league is shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic.
He is reported to make a salary between $4 and $5 million, however, and his total compensation is around $40 million. For a billion-dollar industry, this is far more of a token gesture than anything else. An even greater gesture would have been not to cut back on the salaries of lower workers and furlough those whose jobs are essentially frozen.