1. public opinion is on their side as it relates to the "redskins" name

2. if anything, roger cares too much about public opinion. as saints22 put it, he misreads the room constantly. He has the social awareness of a fricking baby rattle

3. if the nfl didn't care about public opinion then there would be no personal conduct policy to speak of. goodell has spent his brief career just constantly trying to create an image as a hard arse. he wants a "legacy". He thought by being proactive with player conduct he would prevent the NFL from garnering a thug image like the NBA had at the time. Like what you're seeing now, he was waaaaaay off. He has accomplished the complete opposite of what he set out to do.

4. players wearing pink, bountygate, defenseless receiver rules. Had the NFL wanted, they could've just ignored everyone and made out fine. There is such thing as implied consent and bountygate and gay defense won't sway a courtroom. All of these moves and a host of others were made with the sole purpose of winning in the court of public opinion.

I would argue the only thing roger goodell and the NFL care about is public perception. He lacks any and all business sense and I'm not sure he, or the owners for that matter, understand why people like the NFL so much. Case in point "wifi at the stadiums yall, now ereybody be buying up tickets"

Tagliabue and the owners had demonstrated a desire to become vertically integrated and cut out the networks and just sell the NFL as a PPV/season pass. (similar to what they've done with the sunday ticket package). Whether or not that would've been a good move, that's a business decision. Roger Goodell just knows how to wave his hands around and string together "buzz" words while saying absolutely nothing of substance.

Had his father not been a U.S. Senator, nobody would know who the frick Roger Goodell even is.

This post was edited on 9/30/14 at 3:51 pm