Checked out the Commissioner’s Address yesterday. Commissioner Roger Goodell’s story is a fascinating one.
If you haven’t done any extensive reading on him, you really should. How Monster.com or Careerbuilder.com haven’t used his life story as a commercial is beyond me. His first job out of law school?
A public relations intern with the Jets. Apparently, he sent the NFL thousands of handwritten letters throughout his twenties, expressing how much he’d like to work for the league. Some would go answered; some wouldn’t.
The kicker of the story is that when he finally rose through the ranks, and became Commissioner Tagliabue’s right hand man, he was handed a massive file by one of the NFL’s longtime employees. Just a massive manila folder. He takes it, skims through, and finds all his letters. Every last one.
Now he’s the Commissioner of the league.
I liked the way he handled the press conference. It wasn’t some pre-written speech with bullet points and stops for applause. There were no mentions of Iraq, either.
Rather, he just introduced himself, welcomed everyone to the Super Bowl, and then opened up the floor to the media for questions.
Rachel Nichols from ESPN asked about the Ted Johnson stuff; Chris Mortensen probed about the NFL veterans’ pensions; and a Japanese pop star inquired as to whether there’d be more Japanese players participating in the Super Bowl. The Commissioner handled each one with the same calm, patient demeanor, and gave a solid answer to each. He fielded roughly 20 questions on the day -- didn’t dodge any, and even peppered in some humor when asked about the Favre retirement.
Schrager ..... And now he's talking how players should be held accountable for their actions on and in particularly off the field. That's something we never heard Tagliabue mention whilst he was commissioner. As he looked as if he'd rather soft shoe through all of those cursory crimes that were somehow commited on his watch. He's bringing a fresh new look and feel to the NFL and hopefully the likes of Gene Upshaw will be willing to work with in order to get a comprehensive drug and performing enhancing steroid abuse policy in place. That if anyhting is still one of the major hurdles that's still in place that Upshaw for one doesn't seem to want to address. As he's hiding behind the player's right to privacy. He's a fool if he continues with that position. More likely than not though he's using it as a ploy for the next round of labor talks with the NFL.
God bless the NFL and United Way, I live in a rural county not too far from where the Superbowl is being played, and the NFL/United Way partnership has been an incredible blessing on our rural towns. If He is responsible for this, WAY TO GO!
now everybody that wants to be a commissioner is gonna do the samething he did.just right a hole bunch of letters than be a commissioner.hey but now look at him makin the money
I think he's doing a great job as commissioner. The only thing I think needs to be changed is picking of the location for the Super Bowl. I feel that they should look into the possibility of having the Super Bowl at the previous years winner location. That would help out a lot of the cities in the country I think since there hasn't been a lot of repeat winners lately.
