Title: A Quick-Reference Guide to the NFL Constitution & Bylaws, Article VIII — Sports Law Blonde™
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Content: As you'll see below, powers paralleling our nation's other two branches of government - the legislative and executive branches - are also bestowed upon the Commissioner through the rules in Article VIII. The arbitrator power is easily susceptible to public criticism, and every NFL Commissioner has steadily seen a fair share of it because in the grand scheme of things, it feels unnatural and unfair given our democratic preferences for one entity to hold so much "endgame" power, and this authority could be the most natural and fair to pass off to another entity for checks-and-balances' sake. 2. Financial Power to Conduct League Business (section 8.4)
Similar to the president of any traditional business entity, the Commissioner sits on the NFL Executive Committee and has the most powerful voice in the room (i.e., he is the head honcho and has power paralleling executive branches of government). So, as the League's principal executive officer, he must preside at all League and Committee meetings and maintain supervision of League business affairs, generally. All proper business charges go through him for approval before payment as well. The Commissioner has financial-related authority outside the meeting room, too. Akin to presidents, the Commissioner can act and incur necessary costs on behalf of the League in its ordinary course of business without approval from anyone else. In other words, the Commissioner "in his sole discretion" can bind the entity to what he determines are necessary costs, and section 8.4 (A) expressly uses that language. Actions falling under this provision include, but are not limited to, "the leasing of office space and the hiring of employees and other assistance or service."