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“But Kraft was one of Goodell’s closest confidants among the NFL’s thirty-two owners, and his fiercest advocate and defender,” Sherman writes. In describing the genesis of the interview, Sherman notes that Goodell rarely went out front to face tough interviews. 26, 2015 back page of the New York Daily News. The interview would result in heavy criticism of Goodell’s answers to how he was handling the Rice case - in particular his claim that Rice had been ambiguous in his description of the incident when speaking with the commissioner earlier in the summer.Īs the Daily News and other media have reported, sources who were present at Goodell’s meeting with Rice described the former Ravens running back as forthright and detailed in his description of what happened - a description the independent arbitrator agreed with when she reinstated Rice. Kraft went through his friend, CBS chief executive Leslie Moonves, to hook up Goodell with O’Donnell. Sherman writes that Kraft also had a hand in setting up Goodell’s disastrous interview with CBS News anchor Norah O’Donnell following the September release by TMZ of a graphic video showing Rice knocking his now-wife into a railing in an Atlantic City hotel elevator and leaving her unconscious on the elevator floor. I was like, The f- you doing? This is peanuts.”

“He always told me I was overpaid.”Īnother told Sherman: “He gave me a hard time about my contract. “He thought everyone was overpaid,” a former senior executive told Sherman for GQ. Notwithstanding that his massive salary makes him wealthier than even some owners, Goodell apparently resented the salaries of some of his employees.