Roger Goodell and those wacky ideas of his.

First off, you should face the facts Mr. Goodell. As the latest commissionaire of the NFL since 2006 you have been a miserable and complete flop.

Your foolish 'innovations' have been fodder for jokes and ridicule amongst many of the 'true' fans of the NFL. The ones who watch every week, and go to every game they can. The ones who have been watching for years and have seen the NFL go from empty stadiums to full houses and extrodinary TV ratings. Accomplishments that have nothing to do with you.

A square with a 'C' and stars on Captain's jersey's - Laughable at best and ignored by many teams and the best coach in the NFL today - Bill Belichick. True fans do not require a 'C' to figure out who the captains are. LOL

Games in merry old England and even more laughable, a Super Bowl in England? You are truly a fool Roger. Nobody in England cares, understands or even pays very much attention to the NFL, just as many true NFL fans don't pay attention to soccer.

A 'conduct' policy that applies to Big Ben, but doesn't apply to Burp Favra and Rex Ryan and the Jets in general... An organization you used to work for and your favorite team growing up in New York.

Spy-gate... Even CNN-SI's Peter King can conclude that the Patriots have had a better winning percentage since that contrived scandal, than they did before it. So exactly how did the side-line tapes help them? Your association with New York and the Jets once again does not serve you well here. Bill Belichick will some day right a book and your name will surely garner a somewhat unflattering chapter, for sure.

And last but not least - an 18 game regular season??? Your lame reasoning 'fans have complained about the pre-season'-- ??? WTF!!! - I've been watching the NFL since the 1970's and not once have I ever heard anybody complain about the pre-season. The pre-season is what it is - a pre-season.

So you and many of your bosses (I'm assuming that's the NFL owners, and not the wise-guys in Jersey and casino owners in Vegas) want to add two more regular season games.

The NFL is one of the most bet on sports in existence as this excerpt from a June 16th 2009 article by Hannah Karp from the WSJ clearly illustrates..."The NFL says its surveys show that "a very small percentage" of the more than 100 million people who watch the NFL on TV bet on the games -- but there is no question that the NFL is the nation's most popular gambling sport. Bettors wagered $81.5 million in Nevada's sports books on this year's Super Bowl -- a sum that's approached $100 million in previous years, according to the Nevada Gaming Commission. A total of $1.1 billion was wagered on football, both college and pro, in Nevada over the 12 months ending in April 30 (not including parlay bets), nearly three times the amount wagered on basketball. Analysts estimate that tens of billions more are wagered on the NFL at offshore casinos. (Internet betting is illegal in the U.S., although individual bettors are rarely prosecuted.)

The NFL's relationship with gambling is a long one. Its founding fathers included Tim Mara, a legal bookmaker from New York whose grandson, John, is a current owner of the New York Giants; Art Rooney, who bought the Pittsburgh Steelers with his gambling winnings and whose family still owns racetracks; and William Barron Hilton, who led Hilton Hotels Corp. into the gambling business several years after selling his controlling interest in the San Diego Chargers in 1966. (The Las Vegas Hilton is now home to the country's largest sports book.)"

The players working longer and earning the same amount of money?; The fans watching two more useless games at the end of a season which has already taken it's toll on many of their favorite players?; Or the gambling and crime syndicates?

If you picked the later, you chose correctly. Regular season games see 10 to 15 times more betting action than that of a meaningless 'pre-season' game.

You're not fooling anybody Roger Goodell. I just hope the 'clean' owners see you for who you are - a fool - and show you the door before you do any more damage to what was and is one of the best sports ever played.

“Making the players and coaches wear pink in support of breast cancer awareness, but ofcourse anything like support of prostate cancer or non-female specific issues won’t be included because that doesn’t pander to women.”

You forget that the NFL made a generous donation of $1,000,000 on December 28th. http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d81d45907/article/nfl-donates-more-than-1-million-to-american-cancer-society.

I figure, based on what I make each year, that would be like me putting $5 dollars into the offering tray at church. However, I didn’t wear pink stuff for an entire month before I did this.

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