Every so often, in a bid to sound threatening, a member of Congress has vowed to revoke the NFL's tax-exempt status. Now Commissioner Roger Goodell says the league will give it up voluntarily to ''eliminate this distraction.'' One result is that Goodell's compensation - about $35 million 2013, and approximately $44 million in 2012 - will no longer need to be made public. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nfl-relinquishing-tax-exempt-status-171753379--nfl.html
