Silly me.
> successful people get rewarded and failures don’t.
Liberals often make the mistake of looking at “success” from their own point of view rather than the person they are talking about. For example a company is a “success” if it decreases CO2 output or increases diversity, not if it grows revenue, so the CEO should get a raise in the first 2 cases but not the last.
Goodell works for the owners, not public shareholders. We don’t know their definition of success. We assume it is mostly financial. But it could be anything. Almost 50% of revenue goes to players and players are already talking about a strike in a few years to increase it. Maybe the owners, as a group, don’t care about more revenue when 50% goes to players and a big chunk goes to taxes. Maybe they really want to “fix social issues”. Maybe Goodell knows about all the skeletons in their closet and is keeping quiet. Maybe Goodell is “the guy” for international expansion and that’s where huge revenue growth will come from (without player headaches which they can use as an excuse for de-emphasizing US teams).
Goodell thinks he does something that is worth a new contract. And it’s not based on revenue growth or setting the league up for better TV contracts in a few years. Or maybe he knows he’s gone and is bluffing so owners assume there’s more there (not likely to bluff these guys). Or wants to be let go and using outrageous demands to get the owners to refuse. Whatever the case, I can’t see what’s going on from my point of view and won’t act like a liberal and say he should be fired.