Did Goddell lie to the owners?

[CarolinaVeins]

Who's Goddell?

Wow...nothing gets pass you *no sarcasm*

[Highlandfire]

I see what hes talking about

Goodell said something about the revenue problem a year ago which made owners like JR say oh sh*t and they start panicking and tank the season so they can lock the players out

the article has some calculations that shows that the NFL is wrong about their revenue

Yep. According to the article it was Goddell's BS that got the train rolling in the first place.

[Highlandfire]

Who's Goddell?

Some dude

[paulSM]

Looks like they are adding the 1 billion, that was agreed to come off the top. Rather is is counted it or not, is the issue. Since the union agreed (if you agree with something, you shouldn't take it back later, right?) to let the owners take off the top, it should not be counted. A good article would have gave the totals BOTH ways....just saying. either way both are wrong..

Both sides are arguing over numbers instead of facts. they should stop arguing about whether it's 70% or 50% and just say the TOTAL they want. so annoying. The owners should just be like, ok it's 50% and we want to give you 40%. or the players should say ok it's 70% and we want to keep it there. It's like they're little kids. The fans don't care what percentage anybody gets. we just want them to figure it out.

[Lout]

Because he knows it isn't gonna last that long. And he's already rich from being VP of NFL.

That still does not answer my question. How does he benefit?

[Highlandfire]

That still does not answer my question. How does he benefit?

He got the owners to opt out of the CBA didn't he. If they can win this and take money from the players and put more into the NFL then he wins. You think his salary is going to stay at 10 mill per when gross revenue should top 20 billion per and its 9 billion per now? What about staying Commissioner and making big bucks? He gets the owners to get more money in their pockets you think he is going anywhere soon?