Finally!!! Football Season is around the corner. If you're like me the offseason has been nothing short of torture. If you're a Saints fan like I am,  it has been your worst nightmare...NO Kidding!!! Although everyone has their own opinion(you may not care very much for mine) I respect yours and hope you give me the same courtesy as you read further. In spite of what you may have heard,  if you live outside the New Orleans area, we are still very much behind our team. Whatever city you may hail from,  keep in mind the next time Roger Goodell goes off half cocked it could be your team he decides to lower the boom on. There's an old saying "absolute power corrupts absolutely" and Mr Goodell has taken it to a new level. I will make a prediction right now.  If Jon Vilma wins his lawsuit, meaning the NFL or more to the point Goodell himself cannot provide more than heresay evidence of any bounty program, or that Mr. Vilma's involvement is not proven beyond any reasonable doubt, the NFL Commissioner's position will be open in the near future. The owners will see the folly in keeping someone around who has a hidden agenda or is simply taking out his frustrations on someone he hates or dislikes. Notice I said someone not something. You see,  Roger Goodell has taken up for the Saints(the team) in the past,  but the bad blood between he and Sean Payton is well documented. Sean Payton beats to his own drum and doesn't much care for an ego manical commissioner who has a god complex. Payton has a pretty big ego himself and I am sure the room feels claustraphobic when they are in it together. This is probably why Goodell feels the need to show Payton who's boss. In the end the owners will see that Goodell is more trouble than he is worth. Especially, if it is proven that he has no concrete evidence to support all of the allegations he has made. He doesn't seem to understand that defamation of character is not protected by the CBA.  After the owners replace him and they should. They will need to establish an "Appeals Board" with say 5-7 onwers. The board could be rotated every year with a new set of owners. This way it would give each team a say in the process. The "Board" could be divided by having 2-3 reps from the NFC and 2-3 from the AFC each year with each conference alternating the extra rep. You could limit the appeal process to serious violations only and ones involving player suspensions. This way the board is not meeting everytime a player complains about a $10,000 fine. The "Appeals Board" could decide whether a suspension was warranted or if in their view too harsh and could reduce such penalty. If the player in question's owner is serving at the  time, that owner would need to recuse himself from the review. This makes the process more fair than the current one where the person delivering the punishment also hears the appeal which makes absolutely NO sense whatsoever. This same process would apply for coaches as well as referees. Ultimately, this would solve a lot off issues without players needing to get an attorney and file suit in court. Roger Goodell seems to think that now that football season is almost upon us everyone will forget and move on, but until Vilma's libel case is settled, like the season itself we are just getting started.