The fate and compensation of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell elicits no shortage of opinion, much of it negative, about the face of the league. ESPN’s report on Sunday about influential Cowboys owner Jerry Jones “impeding” progress on Goodell’s new deal only turned up the volume. Stepping back from the hysteria, let’s look behind the curtain of NFL ownership and its dealing with the commissioner, a relationship I saw firsthand during my decade as a team executive with the Packers.
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Every team in the league, without exception, believes Goodell and the league office treats other teams better than they treat them.