This is what rotoworld had. The $9MM number I read was a deferred comp number (i.e. he got $35MMish in actual cash last year)
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According to reporter Daniel Kaplan, the league's tax return will indicate Goodell was paid a $3.5 million salary and $40.36 million "bonus." Goodell's absurd bonus is more than the vast majority of NFL players earn in a lifetime, and easily makes him the highest-paid commissioner in North American sports. It's not a good look for a league that literally identifies itself as "not-for-profit" for tax purposes. We'd expect the commish's gargantuan salary to be dialed back for the next fiscal year.
At least seven women in four different states have accused former NFL football player Darren Sharper of drugging and sexually assaulting them, according to court documents filed in Los Angeles on Friday.
Victims reported meeting the five-time Pro Bowl player -- usually at a nightclub -- then going back to his hotel room or home.
Sharper allegedly offered the women shots to drink, after which they reported immediately blacking out. Many of the women woke up with little or no memory of what happened after the drinks, but felt as though they had been sexually assaulted.
In a vacuum the NFL Commish job is probably worth that, his company's product was just recently the most watched TV event in the history of TV. But I can understand the disgust with knowing that Goodell got that earnings given how unlikely it is that he provides a unique service to the league worth that compensation over other viable candidates.
But like with most top-tier CEO compensation, you're mostly being compensated just for getting to the top. It's all gravy once you've beaten the rest for the spot.
also if anything goodell's probably underpaid. each team pays him 1.4 mil (i'm assuming that's how it works) and he probably saved them at least 20 times as much on the concussion suit alone