[SI] Goodell Article; Football in Houston instead of LA = failure

This is fairly simple:

(a) League's rising star = Goodell = wanted the 32nd franchise in LA
(b) 32nd franchise went to Houston, not LA
(c) Failure for Goodell

It's that simple. They mention Houston because that's the fact of what happened instead of getting a franchise to LA. People not from Houston may not know that Houston got the team instead of LA - they may have thought those two things were uncorrelated. So the article clarifies what happened - that's just good reporting.

 

Quite possibly the greatest Myth yet .....

 

Agreed *uck LA they should get their act together.

 

Yeah, no kidding. I can't believe this thread is analyzing and over-analyzing one sentence which mentions Houston in a long article that's NOT ABOUT HOUSTON. I'm sure the writer was thinking the whole time he wrote the article about how to express his distaste of Houston as a city, and that he purposely added that little bit there for that reason.

 

Respect the unrespected.

 

Of course not being able to broker a deal to put the league back in LA was a failure. What league would not want a team in the 2nd largest media market in the country over just about anywhere else?

 

For a failure, he made out pretty well, he makes something like 10-13 mm a year depending on year.

Notwithstanding of course the NFL is basically a giant money machine that any reasonably well trained executive could not possibly **** up running for a fraction of that sum

 

I, too would be curious to see how much (if any) TV contracts would increase with a team in LA. Here is a snippet of an article:

"The age-old belief that the NFL needs Los Angeles more than Los Angeles needs the NFL has been debunked over the years. Just look at the league's TV contracts, which went from $900 million per year when they had to two teams in Los Angeles to $3.1 billion per year with no teams in the market. That figure is expected to double after the current contract runs out following the 2013 season, with or without an NFL team in L.A. Meanwhile, the state of California is $25 billion in the red and could certainly use the economic impact of big events, such as the Super Bowl, the Final Four and national conventions. "

http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/nfl/news/story?id=6057731

 

After the Storm, I wanted to give NO to LA but make The Super Dome the permanent home of the Super Bowl. Every year Bourbon Street rocks with partisan drunks.

 

No offense pgabs, but that's not poorly written. It's obvious that it is referencing Goodell's first 'failure' at achieving one of his goals. It's not a knock against Houston at all.

(Though I guess maybe we should be concerned Goodell has a grudge against Houston now. lol )