Fixing the NFL’s Bay of Pigs: How Roger Goodell Can Make Better Decisions

September 4, 2015   ·   Mike Tanier   ·   Jump to comments

You know the NFL seriously bungled Deflategate when experts start comparing it to the Bay of Pigs.
On Thursday morning, Judge Richard M. Berman nullified Tom Brady's suspension for conspiring to tamper with footballs. The NFL announced it will appeal the ruling, though Brady will be free to play in the interim. It was more than a stunning legal defeat for the NFL. It was an emphatic indictment of the way Goodell governs the NFL.
And yet, business management experts say it isn't too late—or even too hard—for Goodell and the NFL to change their ways before the next catastrophe.
"Goodell climbed up a tree, and he doesn't know how to get down," said Dr. Maurice Schweitzer of the Wharton School of Business, an expert in corporate negotiations and the psychology of management.
It doesn't take an expert to see that Goodell painted himself into a corner in Deflategate. But Schweitzer and others have studied the underlying causes of the NFL's problem, which are c...

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