I cant imagine its worth $50MM to the owners for anyone to do that job.

In comparison, DeMaurice Smith makes about $3MM per year from what I can find.

I want 50 million and a private jet, too. Make it so.

He's in charge of a $9 BILLION DOLLAR+ per year enterprise.

That alone makes his salary worth at least $32 million per, which breaks down into $1 million per team.

If I was his agent, I'd be asking for $50 million per as well.

You can't get it if you don't ask for it.

If you think you are incompetent enough, give Arthur Blank a call.

Nice pic. Pretty sure he's used up his street cred with NFL fans after his abysmal run at calling games. Thankfully, announcing draft picks at the NFL draft is nowhere near analogous to calling a game. That said, there's a certain percentage of current announcers that would probably be very popular as presenters at the draft. Some others not so popular. The NFL needs likeable people that would add value to the broadcast. Rodger Goodell, it could be argued, has not been adding value to the broadcast.

Joe Buck should announce the picks.



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You good sir, are a rabble-rouser. :)

That's actually not a bad idea. The NFL is an entertainment property. they should hire someone from Hollywood, or a huge global marketing CEO to run the league.

If this was the business world: Sales are down, brand equity is down, operations are suffering. The CEO would be shitcanned months ago. Not be asking for a 70% pay increase and lifetime mile high club.

I'll do it for half that plus a private bus.

I'd be happy with just seeing who the picks are via a scrolling ticker as they happen. or on a big screen etc. Just let the "analysts" talk about players etc, then when a pick is in, just flash it on a big screen .

if the NFL were to enlist a celebrity to make the picks, or athletes, etc...I think it would just turn into more of a turd than it already is. You'd have some of the idiot old Raiders and Cowboys making fools of themselves....then others would have to one-up them.

I never thought it would be possible for the NFL to mess up the draft, but they've managed to do it the last 3 years or so.

I really like it when they bring the former players out to make the picks, so let's do the math.

Option 1. Former Player Announcements. They already have one former NFL player at each draft announcing the second round. If you added one more for each of the other six rounds, that would be 192 players. Assume $1,500 for business class airfare, $1,500 for hotel, $1,000 for food, $500 for incidentals, and a $1,000 honorarium, and you end up with a total cost of $1,056,000.

Option 2. Have Goodell do it. At a $50 million salary, the league's cost for him to attend the three-day draft is $600,000. Add in the private jet time and benefits and it's probably $650,000.

So we need to save about $400,000 to use players instead of Roger. That means we can afford 110 players. Would anyone mind if each player announced two rounds? You could also have fans announce a round or two.

Don't former NFL players announce the second round picks every year?

Not one to one. Time to get a bigger frying pan. Viewership would go up w/o Goodell. Higher ratings = higher tv revenue. Work with SB half-time stars on a package gig to do the SB & the next draft. Justin Timberlake with a 3 song set before the the draft. Maybe have a cameo wardrobe malfunction with Janet Jackson (Alternates: Kate Hudson/Lady Gaga/Beyonce). Get a new demographic watching the draft and throw in some gratuitous cleavage and nipples for the horny hard core NFL fan. Maybe have a Goodelll look-alike in a dunk tank. A lucky audience member gets to come up and dunk him every half-round. Channel your inner Charlie Finley and go crazy... (BTW, if games go PPV, this may be the only free NFL broadcast left.)

#1 pick. A-list Celebrity.
1st round - Former players with 5+ years in the league.
2nd round - B list celebrities.
3rd round - Fans.
4th round - Former players with less than 5 years in the league.
5th round - Stunts, acrobatics, and feats of derringdo.
6th round - Trained dogs.
7th round - Random people on the street who are handed envelopes with names.