by Tony Renteria

(photo credit AP of Roger Goodell)

You have to honestly have to believe that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was in the deflate gate case and it was about a power grab there. In the final analysis of the league going after New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady for asking the equipment staff the deflate the footballs during the AFC Championship during the post season last year.

Whether there’s truth to it or not, if not cheating playing on the very fringe of the rules. Just like the formation they pulled off against the Ravens last year in the playoffs. Owners like competitive people if they feel there’s an advantage there given to another team. Goodell is an employee of the NFL, he’s an employee of the owners.

Goodell reports only to 32 people and those 32 people are his bosses and you got to think in that competitive nature somebody was saying “you need to press this issue” it needs to be fair all the way around. That “fairness” probably forced Goodell to actually do something that he wasn’t prepared to do or something that he was not equipped to do.

Goodell is the face of the NFL the whole organization when you think of the NFL, you don’t think of Washington owner Dan Snyder, Oakland owner Mark Davis, or even New England owner Robert Kraft, you think of Goodell. The NFL is making money left and right the owners only care about that one thing. They ask themselves “is my franchise worth more today than it was yesterday?”

They want to win football games as well but their all businessmen. These men aren’t football people, only one team that puts winning ahead of profit and that’s the publicly owned Green Bay Packers. The other 31 teams are privately owned businesses. Goodell has made the NFL more profitable every year.

The Baltimore Ravens Ray Rice situation last season was a debacle and inspite of all of that TV ratings were up, money was up, franchise value has been more and more, Goodell is not going to go anywhere. He’s taking the heat and the NFL owners are making more and more money. Kraft’s team has been to six Super Bowls since 2002 and who were in the playoffs every year.

Tony Renteria covers the NFL for http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to the podcast below