The N.F.L. owners had best be careful.
The league has reached a point of popularity and profitability that can be blinding. It happens to star players, and it can happen to leagues as well.
Instead of celebrating a great Super Bowl game and a breakthrough performance by Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers or Mike McCarthy’s first Super Bowl ring, Commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday was left to explain how the big, bad N.F.L. had run out of seats at its crown-jewel event.
A number of sections of temporary seating at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Tex., were not completed in time for Sunday’s game. As a result, more than 1,000 exasperated fans couldn’t sit in the seats they had tickets for and of those, and hundreds were left to stand and watch on television screens inside a club at the stadium.
Goodell took pains to point out that the Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was not responsible for the fiasco.
“We put on this event,” Goodell said. “This is a responsibility of the N.F.L.”
For the Super Bowl, the league
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/sports/football/08rhoden-nfl.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
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