Can one of his sycophants in the NFL courtier press please explain to This Blog specifically how Roger Goodell has the right as the commissioner of the National Football League unilaterally to punish Terrelle Pryor and Jim Tressel for violating NCAA regulations. I mean, why don't they just give him a helmet and some mirrored glasses and let him work for the Alabama Highway Patrol to see if any of this year's Crimson Tide squad is violating local traffic ordinances? Let him work the underage-drinkers beat in Madison, or the dope-smoker beat in Ann Arbor. Give him a pair of horn-rims and a nice frock and let him work the Overdue desk at the campus library in State College.

This Blog firmly believes that, without gambling and the wish for authoritarian solutions to all of life's problems, the NFL would have been out of business 30 years ago.