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Roger Goodell, who is currently making $30 million a year, is looking to get even richer in his next contract with the league. According to an ESPN report from Adam Schefter and Chris Mortenson, Goodell asking for a $50 million annual salary and a private jet for life in contract negotiations with league owners.
Via ESPN
The NFL’s Compensation Committee will hold a conference call Monday to discuss and further push ahead the proposed extension for commissioner Roger Goodell, sources confirmed to ESPN.
The conference call, first reported Saturday by The New York Times, comes after Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones voiced his displeasure about the contract extension that the committee has been discussing. The call also gives the committee a chance to do what it believes is right.
The committee will address Goodell’s salary and compensation package. The last written counterproposal from Goodell, which was around the first of August, was seeking about $49.5 million per year, as well as the lifetime use of a private jet and lifetime health insurance for his family, according to a source familiar with the negotiations
Obviously the owners aren’t down with paying Goodell what he’s asking for.
One NFL owner told ESPN that there are “several owners in this league who don’t make $40 million a year.” The owner was referring to the salaries that owners take, which does not include the increase in valuations that each NFL franchise has undergone.
“That number for Roger just seems too much,” the owner said. “It’s offensive. It’s unseemly.”
Roger Goodell must have lost his fucking mind if he thinks owners are going to pay him $50 million.