NFL Sacks 150 Jobs

In what NFL commissioner Roger Godell might call unnecessary roughness, the global economic slump is causing the NFL to cut staff by 150 employees and freeze salaries through 2009. The staff reductions will come from the league’s New York City headquarters, production facilities for NFL Films in New Jersey, and NFL Network and NFL.com offices in L.A. The announcement comes after the league announced that it has cut expenses to save “a significant amount of money” in October. “These are difficult and painful steps but they are necessary in the current economic climate,” Goodell said in a memo. “I would like to be able to report that we are immune to the troubles around us, but we are not.”