Goodell's first year was about much more than discipline

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    From FOXSports.com

    To most people, Roger Goodell's crackdown on misbehaving players is perceived as his main accomplishment in his first year as NFL commissioner.

    In truth, the long-term promise for his administration is reflected in the raves from Dallas' Jerry Jones and Buffalo's Ralph Wilson, two owners at the opposite ends of the NFL's most critical divide: revenue.
    "It's been just a wonderful year. Roger has made all the right decisions, all the common sense things that make the NFL what it is," says the 88-year-old Wilson, who has been the most outspoken of the league's small-market owners. Wilson was less than enthusiastic about Goodell before he was selected last Aug. 8 to succeed Paul Tagliabue.

    "He gets an A-plus from me," says Jones, who agrees with Wilson on very little - at least on the business side of the league.

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