The decision of the NFL to convert the tax status of the league office from tax-exempt, a move that Bloomberg has estimated will cost $109 million over 10 years, officially flows from a desire by the league to remove a distraction arising from mischaracterizations of the question of whether the NFL and its teams are somehow avoiding their tax obligations. (They aren’t.) The decision also will allow the NFL to make secret information regarding the compensation to be paid to the Commissioner and other high-level executives.
Which unofficially makes it a bonus for the league.
But should it be that way? Should the compensation of the man whose name is on every official NFL football be hidden when the money paid to every player in position to actually touch that football during a game is available to be scrutinized by anyone and everyone?
So we’ll put it out to a vote of PFT Planet. Given that Goodell made $150.4 million in his first eight years on the job and no player has earned that much, I know what my answer will be.
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