How Roger Goodell Became the Most Powerful Man in Pro Sports
These days, it's difficult to imagine the NFL without Roger Goodell, but it wasn't too long ago that he was just the answer to a trivia question that only the most hardcore NFL fan could answer.
Before eventually taking over for Paul Tagliabue, Goodell was once a lowly intern in the offices of Pete Rozelle and later the New York Jets. This www.49ersfootballprostore.com/Authentic-Vernon-Davis-Jersey wasn't any fortuitous stroke of luck. Goodell actually wrote the commissioner and each NFL team to inquire about job openings.
It's not like he was some high school sophomore trying to get a summer job, either. He had just graduated magna cum laude from William and Jefferson College with a degree in economics.
Roger's father, Charles Goodell, was a congressman who was later appointed to the United States Senate after Robert Kennedy's assassination. Charles fought Richard Nixon over Vietnam. However, for most of Roger's life, his father was just a Washington D.C. lawyer. His mother, Patricia Goldman Goodell, a champion of women's rights.