I really enjoy most of your football takes even when we disagree but your Goodell take on helping Brady is absolutely head scratching and makes me wonder who you really might be a fan of.
I've already explained this. Even the forced Antonio Brown release in 2019 is a Goodell move. But, why with Brown's situation never having changed since 2019, is he on TB and allowed to play? I know what the answer is and so should you.
If you remember, Brown got into trouble even AFTER he was released from NE and Goodell still allowed him back to sign with TB. It's just fascinating to watch how he cheat$. Look at Watson right now in Houston.
You saw what MLB did with Trevor Bauer. They banned him. It's the normal, adult thing to do. Goodell picks and choo$e$ where he deploys his brand of justice based on financial motives.
All these owners ever wanted was to separate the Kraft/BB/Brady trio. Now that Brady is on a different team in a completely different and VERY WEAK NFL market in Florida, it's better for the league. This isn't hard to understand. The league does better if a different team wins the SB every year, especially teams that never have or haven't in a long time. This is a fact based on their financial model.
The SB was an abomination. I've never in my life, in 40 years of watching the SB seen such ticky tack PI calls out of the woodwork like that. Never. The SB is famously a let em play game unless egregious. The 2nd PI call was on a ball launched into the first row, similar to Jake Plummer launching a ball to Ashely Lelie back in January 2006 in Denver, with Samuel in perfect inside position on the play in the first place. Flag. First and goal. But, by rule the ball has to catchable. Balls out of bounds that far are not catchable yet the call stood. I can still see Samuel's face. It looked like Sweet Pea Whitaker's in that '93 fight with Chavez when Whitaker dominated the fight and won every round. Just highway robbery.
I can't help you if you can't see this or don't have a good memory going back 15+ years in this league where that stuff simply didn't happen. Or, maybe you're a teenager or early 20s person. I don't know, but I can't help that you've forgotten or don 't pay attention.
Jerseys, tickets sold out in TB, money being shifted away from NE into that new market = MORE MONEY for NFL overall.
It's the story that sells. Goodell sees the NBA making hand over fist even with an AWFUL product (IMO), so he wants that model for the NFL.