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Goodell Has Ownership’s Support so Long as Sponsors Stay

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By Scott Soshnick

September 12, 2014 at 4:00 AM UTC

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Roger Goodell, 22 years old and armed with a newly minted economics degree from Washington & Jefferson College, typed a letter to National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle.

“Being an avid football fan, I have always desired a career in the NFL,” Goodell wrote on July 2, 1981.