By Wayne Allyn Root
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is a schmuck- the word my Yiddish grandmother used to describe an idiot, fool, or jerk.
But he’s not just any schmuck. Goodell is a pathetic, woke, liberal, self-hating, guilt-ridden, schmuck.
Goodell is an embarrassment to NFL fans- who are overwhelmingly (like me) macho male, testosterone-driven, Trump MAGA voters.
But I can tell you why Goodell is such a schmuck. Because the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
I know a lot about NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. Because…
My father fired his father 56 years ago (in 1970).
The difference between me and Roger Goodell is best explained by the families we were born to…
I met lots of people like Roger Goodell at Columbia University. 99% of my fellow Columbia classmates could best be described as spoiled brat, lucky sperm club. They were born on 3rd base, but thought they hit a triple.
That’s Roger Goodell.
An arrogant, entitled, elitist, know-it-all, who had everything handed to him his whole life on a silver platter.
On the other hand, I’m a blue-collar SOB (son of a butcher) who grew up on a dead-end street (literally). My neighborhood was all policemen, firemen, and mafia gangsters. I was the only Jew in an all-Italian, working-class neighborhood on the Bronx borderline in Mt. Vernon NY.
My neighborhood was so tough we ate broken leg of lamb.
My neighborhood may have been all white working class, but the city was almost all black. When it came time for middle school and high school, all my friends were sent to Catholic school, and I got stuck in one of the most dangerous schools in America.
Mt Vernon High School was 90% black, 10% Italian and one Jew- me. Every day I was threatened, intimidated and often beat up, or chased home by thugs.
Until I spent a summer learning how to fight, and then I fought back, stood my ground, beat up three bullies in a row, made the football team, and became a marshal- school police. Life changed. No one ever challenged me for the rest of my life.
Roger Goodell and I have nothing in common.
Roger was the definition of “white privilege.” He was the son of a United States Senator. His dad was Charles Goodell- the US Senator representing New York in Washington DC.
My dad’s butcher store was in Bronxville, NY- a very wealthy town, filled with rich, privileged, spoiled brats.
Now guess who was raised in Bronxville, NY? Roger Goodell.
Roger is 66 years old. I’ll be 65 this July. While Roger was captain of Bronxville High School’s football, baseball and basketball teams (of course), I was attending all black Mt. Vernon High School on the other side of the tracks. I was also working after school in my dad’s butcher store in Bronxville- just blocks away from Roger’s fancy high school.
Boy were our lives different.
Today Roger is a woke, liberal schmuck who sides with national anthem kneelers; dedicates the NFL to gays, lesbians and transgenders; and chooses rapper“Bad Bunny” for today’s Super Bowl halftime show- where he will sing in Spanish and threatens to wear a dress.
Roger’s halftime choice is the worst in NFL Super Bowl history- by a mile.
Roger also has chosen to start the pregame off with the Black National Anthem. He also shared with the media days ago how upset he is that only white men were hired for all the NFL’s recent head coach openings.
Roger and I couldn’t be more different. He is guilt-ridden because he has had everything in his life handed to him on a silver platter by his rich, powerful daddy, the Senator.
I had nothing ever handed to me. I had no doors opened. I fought for everything I’ve got. I earned everything I’ve got.
That is what has made me the conservative MAGA TV and radio host that I am today.
I despise DEI. Like Martin Luther King, I fight for a color-blind society that awards jobs based on merit- not racism, or reverse racism.
I don’t want any coach hired just because he’s black. Only the most qualified coach should get the job.
I despise woke gay and transgender brainwashing.
I despise national anthem kneelers.
Most importantly, I’m sickened to my stomach by a halftime show featuring a man in a dress singing in Spanish.
So, at halftime, I’ll turn the channel to Real America’s Voice TV- where they will feature an All-American halftime alternative show starring Kid Rock and country music superstars. You should all do the same.
But back to Roger Goodell, the schmuck.
I may be the only conservative TV host in America who actually knows why Roger Goodell is such a woke, liberal schmuck.
In 1962 my father answered a newspaper ad and became one of the founding members of the New York State Conservative Party.
And the first huge victory of this upstart third party was electing James Buckley as US Senator in 1970.
Buckley was elected as a Conservative third-party candidate- the first in NY history. It was a miracle. He defeated the Republican and Democrat candidates. Guess who he defeated?
Roger Goodell’s father- the incumbent liberal RINO Republican US Senator of NY.
Charles Goodell was so liberal, he ran on the Republican and liberal party lines. He was a RINO- a Republican in name only. Everything he believed in was the opposite off my father- who was a conservative Barry Goldwater Republican.
Incumbent US Senator Charles Goodell was humiliated by my dad’s 3rdparty underdog candidate. Goodell only got 24% of the vote.
This explains everything about Roger Goodell. Like father, like son. Both woke, liberal schmucks.
I’m sure the Super Bowl will be a great game today. I’ll be betting big money on it. But the Black National Anthem and halftime show will be a black eye for the NFL.
Roger Goodell has chosen to purposely spit in the face of his best customers- the people who made the NFL what it is today, and pay the NFL’s bills.
Roger Goodell’s $50 million annual salary and the salaries of all those rich pampered athletes are paid mostly by macho, testosterone-driven males who voted three times for President Donald J. Trump.
I repeat- Roger Goodell is a schmuck.
Now you know why. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Wayne Allyn Root is a CEO, businessman, best-selling author, and national conservative TV and radio host, who has interviewed President Trump 16 times. Watch Wayne’s TV show “America’s Top Ten Countdown” on Real America’s Voice TV Saturdays at Noon ET and his video podcast “WAR Zone presented by The Gateway Pundit” daily from 6 PM to 8 PM ET at TheGatewayPundit.com. His website is ROOTforAmerica.com. Read Wayne’s latest fun book, “How Democrats Have Made America Great.” It’s 140 blank pages. The joke is on Democrats!
