Darren Rovell is probably loving himself today. He busted out some ridiculous figures which he found on a NFL tax filing that was made public today, and it will probably make you vomit. According to Darren, Roger Goodell made a whopping $34.1 million in 2014 as NFL commissioner and has pulled in $180.5 million over the past 9 years as commish. You can fire up Twitter about right now for some glorious hot takes on what people think of Goodell making this kind of salary.
BREAKING: Roger Goodell's compensation in 2014 was $34.1 million, according to a tax filing the league filed today.
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) February 16, 2016
$180.5 million: Compensation for Roger Goodell in his 1st 9 years as commissioner of the NFL.
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) February 16, 2016
After Goodell, highest paid NFL employee in 2014 was league's general counsel Jeff Pash, who received $7.51 million in compensation.
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) February 16, 2016
We are also anxiously awaiting the comments from former and current NFL players on this finding. As much as you want to laugh at this figure, it is hard to argue that the NFL is not king in terms of ratings. Check out these 2015 stats which were released by Nielsen this week, and you can see that the advertising revenue stream for the NFL is not about to dry up anytime soon.
