Big Ben Quandry for the Commish

As the NFL commissioner Roger Goodell gets ready to announce his possible punishment I can't help but think he is in a no win situation. The majority of the NFL players union want a punishment that is relatively comparable to the players that have been suspended that weren't qb's in the past years. There is also a racial angle to the unions grievances because the majority of players that have been disciplined in the past have been black and are looking for equal treatment. Roethlisbergers employer and team, the Pittsburgh Steelers would have backed a substantial suspension to appease their fans who are extremely upset about Ben's behavior, and agreed to wait a week until after the draft for an announcement. Now the Steelers are receiving trade offers from other teams, that want to know the length of the suspension before finalizing a trade. Now the commissioner has to make a decision today to keep everyone happy which he can't do. The really bad part of the story is that if Goodell never tried to be the "Morality Commish", he would never be in this position. So as the saying goes now, he has made his bed, and it is HIS time to lay in it. If I had to make the decision he has put himself in I'd suspend him for an entire 17 game season, and suspend 13 of them to hang over his head if anything else happens to embarrass the NFL. While he wasn't charged with a crime due to the polices botched investigation, the severity of a second accusation is enough to warrant a substantial suspension.