NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s contract has been extended through March 2027.
The 64-year-old Goodell has been league commissioner since 2006. The re-up is his fourth. No financial terms were given by the league, which announced the move in a terse press release.
It is widely understood that Goodell’s contract will make him the best-paid commissioner in sports. Over the past couple of years, he has sealed rights deals with major media companies, Amazon and YouTube worth in the range of $125 billion. The league also launched its own streaming outlet, NFL+, which includes mobile rights previously licensed to Verizon and Yahoo.
Related: NFL Schedule 2023: Primetime Games, Thanksgiving & Christmas Tripleheaders, Prime Video Black Friday Freebie & More
Any league commissioner serves at the pleasure of club owners, and in the Goodell Era owners have seen their fortunes grow considerably. Along with media rights and streaming, the rise of the NFL to the...
The 64-year-old Goodell has been league commissioner since 2006. The re-up is his fourth. No financial terms were given by the league, which announced the move in a terse press release.
It is widely understood that Goodell’s contract will make him the best-paid commissioner in sports. Over the past couple of years, he has sealed rights deals with major media companies, Amazon and YouTube worth in the range of $125 billion. The league also launched its own streaming outlet, NFL+, which includes mobile rights previously licensed to Verizon and Yahoo.
Related: NFL Schedule 2023: Primetime Games, Thanksgiving & Christmas Tripleheaders, Prime Video Black Friday Freebie & More
Any league commissioner serves at the pleasure of club owners, and in the Goodell Era owners have seen their fortunes grow considerably. Along with media rights and streaming, the rise of the NFL to the...
- 10/18/2023
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Homer Jones, an electrifying wide receiver for the New York Giants who still holds the NFL record for career yards per reception at 22.3 yards, died Wednesday in Texas from lung cancer. He was 82.
Jones was the first player to “spike” the football after a touchdown. He reportedly did so after NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle threatened fines to players who threw the football into the stands.
Jones played college football and ran track at Texas Southern University and was drafted as the 278th pick in 1963 by the Houston Oilers. He was cut after a knee injury, but was picked up by the New York Giants. He went on to play seven years in the NFL, with the bulk of it with the Giants from 1964-69. Jones retired in 1971 after a season with the Cleveland Browns.
Teaming with New York Giants quarterback Fran Tarkenton, Jones became a fearsome weapon.
Jones had a...
Jones was the first player to “spike” the football after a touchdown. He reportedly did so after NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle threatened fines to players who threw the football into the stands.
Jones played college football and ran track at Texas Southern University and was drafted as the 278th pick in 1963 by the Houston Oilers. He was cut after a knee injury, but was picked up by the New York Giants. He went on to play seven years in the NFL, with the bulk of it with the Giants from 1964-69. Jones retired in 1971 after a season with the Cleveland Browns.
Teaming with New York Giants quarterback Fran Tarkenton, Jones became a fearsome weapon.
Jones had a...
- 6/16/2023
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Paul Hornung, the so-called “Golden Boy” running back who starred for Notre Dame and in the 1960s championship years of the NFL’s Green Bay Packers, died today in his hometown of Louisville, Ky. He was 84. No cause of death was given by the Louisville Sports Commission.
Hornung is one of only seven players to win the Heisman Trophy and later be named NFL Mvp. He won the Heisman in 1956 despite Notre Dame’s 2-8 record, becoming the only player to win the award while starring for a losing team. That year, he led the Fighting Irish in passing, rushing, scoring, kickoff returns, punt returns and punting. On defense, he led the team in passes broken up and was second in tackles and interceptions.
Green Bay selected Hornung in 1957 with the No. 1 overall pick in the NFL draft. It was a monumental draft for the Pack, which also brought aboard Bart Starr,...
Hornung is one of only seven players to win the Heisman Trophy and later be named NFL Mvp. He won the Heisman in 1956 despite Notre Dame’s 2-8 record, becoming the only player to win the award while starring for a losing team. That year, he led the Fighting Irish in passing, rushing, scoring, kickoff returns, punt returns and punting. On defense, he led the team in passes broken up and was second in tackles and interceptions.
Green Bay selected Hornung in 1957 with the No. 1 overall pick in the NFL draft. It was a monumental draft for the Pack, which also brought aboard Bart Starr,...
- 11/13/2020
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
ESPN’s NFL PrimeTime, the sports network’s flagship NFL show almost two decades, is returning with its original hosts Chris Berman and Tom Jackson. The new incarnation of the highlights show will air on the ESPN+ streaming service beginning Sunday, returning it to screens after a 14-year absence.
SportsCenter anchor Scott Van Pelt and Monday Night Football announcer Joe Tessitore will also be part of the hourlong show, which will stream live Sundays at 7:30 Et during the season. The network said each show will be updated with highlights from the late Sunday and Monday games, and each show will be available on-demand through late Wednesday.
SportsCenter anchor Scott Van Pelt and Monday Night Football announcer Joe Tessitore will also be part of the hourlong show, which will stream live Sundays at 7:30 Et during the season. The network said each show will be updated with highlights from the late Sunday and Monday games, and each show will be available on-demand through late Wednesday.
- 9/13/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
The Paley Center for Media in New York will host an expansive new exhibit marking the 100th season of the NFL, which kicks off tonight when the Chicago Bears renew their rivalry with the Green Bay Packers.
Running September 14 to October 27, A Century of Football: Celebrating the NFL’s 100th Season, which is free to the public, will feature a range of screenings, experiences and memorabilia.
One artifact of particular note was long considered a lost treasure by football and TV buffs: a recording of the CBS broadcast of the first Super Bowl ever played. Super Bowl I, the 1967 contest between the Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs, was carried by both CBS and NBC, a clear sign of how little anyone anticipated the juggernaut the league would become.
The broadcast does not include the halftime show or chunks of third-quarter action, but the audio is intact and it includes...
Running September 14 to October 27, A Century of Football: Celebrating the NFL’s 100th Season, which is free to the public, will feature a range of screenings, experiences and memorabilia.
One artifact of particular note was long considered a lost treasure by football and TV buffs: a recording of the CBS broadcast of the first Super Bowl ever played. Super Bowl I, the 1967 contest between the Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs, was carried by both CBS and NBC, a clear sign of how little anyone anticipated the juggernaut the league would become.
The broadcast does not include the halftime show or chunks of third-quarter action, but the audio is intact and it includes...
- 9/5/2019
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
NEW YORK -- CBS Sports reporter Lesley Visser has been awarded the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award. Visser, who has spent 34 years covering the NFL, is the first woman to receive an award from the football Hall of Fame. Previous winners of the Rozelle award are John Madden, Roone Arledge, Curt Gowdy and Jack Buck, among others. Visser will be reporting on the NFL again on CBS and cover the Super Bowl too. She has been a reporter for CBS News, HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel and was the sideline reporter at ABC's Monday Night Football for seven years. She began her journalism career in 1974 as a Boston Globe reporter.
- 6/30/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- After 16 years at the helm of America's most popular and media-savvy sport, NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue will retire in the summer. Tagliabue leaves behind a legacy that has built the NFL into an even bigger powerhouse than it was when he inherited the helm of the league from the legendary Pete Rozelle. Under Tagliabue's guidance, the NFL has received top dollar for its TV rights, created a highly successful cable channel and ensured labor harmony and agreements that will keep the game rolling on multiple platforms until early into the next decade. "There's no doubt in my mind that he took Pete Rozelle's legacy and made it so much greater," Fox Sports chairman David Hill said Monday. It was Tagliabue, along with the NFL owners, who took what Hill called a "huge roll of the dice" to grant TV rights to the fledgling Fox Broadcasting Co. in the early 1990s.
- 3/20/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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