Goodell Is the Commissioner NFL Owners Want, and He Isn’t Going Away

September 20, 2014   ·   Mike Tanier   ·   Jump to comments

Fay Vincent resigned as Major League Baseball commissioner on September 7, 1992. He was the last major sports commissioner to resign beneath a cloud of controversy, making him our only real modern template for what may or may not happen to Roger Goodell.
Vincent’s case sheds some very bleak, cynical light on Goodell’s future.      
Vincent was not ousted because Major League Baseball was racked by a cocaine problem, or because a massive steroid scandal that would soon swallow the sport’s integrity was already simmering. In fact, he tried to stand tough on those issues, issuing a lifetime ban to pitcher Steve Howe, whose serialized suspensions were making a laughingstock of baseball’s drug policies.
Vincent was not ousted because Major League Baseball endured constant labor stoppages in that era. In fact, he minimized the damage of the one work stoppage of his tenure, helping end the 1990 lockout before the start of the season.<...

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