You ever have those stupid conversations with your friends about what you'd do if you won the lottery when it's some absurd amount destined to go ONLY to people about to die within 5 years so the state can pocket the money? The conversations generally go as such...

-The guy who says he'd give a bunch to charity, then his family, then invest it. You know he's lying if there's a hot girl around that can't see bullshit if you stick her head up a steer's anus.

-The guy who is honest, and mentions giving some to close family and friends, but noting that a big ass kegger is coming to his house, complete with strippers, and a pig farm to rid the backyard of any casualties from partying for 7 days.

-The guy who talks about traveling, buying a sports team, and doing outlandish things that most people would dream of doing. He too is honest. He too plans on having a giant brouhaha.

And yet, here we are again, putting another athlete on the cross and watching him bleed out because he does "stupid things" that we'd do in about 45 seconds if we had his type of money.

Dear Roger Goodell,

Don't suspend Big Ben Roethlisberger. This isn't about me singing Nelly Furtado at his house drunk in college with him or feeding his fish lunch meat. This is about the erosion of America, and what type of society we've become when the main ethnicity can be given one term..."hypocrites."

For one, it's a slap in the face to our legal system. Police and prosecutors charge murder suspects when they have so much as "a drug dealer who will testify against the accused." Yet they, after a solid month of investigating (and guessing not much happens in Milledgeville, GA to take them away from this one) couldn't find anything to even CHARGE the guy, which means they get a grace period to strengthen the case.

I'm a pee-on. So are all of my friends. But in the past, we'd go out. We don't have millions, but we don't collect food stamps either. And we got ripped. We spent dough. We did things no one would be proud of. But it was funny. And when we rolled into work the next day reeking of Admiral Nelson and IU Co-eds, no one was suspending us for the arbitrary and overused term "conduct detrimental to organization." Which basically means, if you leave your fly open and someone doesn't like it...oh look, a loophole for punishment.

And then there's the whole issue of race. Well, Santiono Holmes got suspended and traded, so it sets a difference precedent. Well, Santonio Holmes also has a rap sheet. For this individual crime, or non-crime, NO, he shouldn't be jacked four games. For the illegal transgressions, yes. But it isn't racist. That's a copout by whiners for equality, when they haven't the foggiest idea of what it is. Suspending Ben sends a message, and that message is the wrong one. The message is, we pay you stupid amounts of money, and then we expect you to act like an 80 year old in a coma with it.

What would YOU do with 20 million dollars? And remember, for this exercise, you're 28 and single. Not 54 and impotent. You're getting blasted. You're meeting women you never could meet beforehand because you have money. You're not sitting home playing Yahtzee with the neighbor's kids and 2 fat chics. And if you even try to convince me otherwise, you'd best go to confession...like...tomorrow.

We see it time and time again. We expect something of others that we are completely incapable of giving ourselves. We buy overpriced tickets, beers, souviners, and apparel...and then complain about the money these guys are paid. Well, newsflash, overly "smart" America...they don't make that much loot without you giving the opportunity to them.

We've become a society of Judge Judys. We are littered with drones who turn on ESPN and say "oh, I agree with that" without ever walking in another man's shoes to critically think out the situation. We punish people for not breaking the law. We punish people for breaking the law. We ignore the three facts that make up this and too many other situations...

1. Rich people drink and party

2. Women like money

3. Alcohol adds false elements to situations

Deal with it. It won't change. So let Big Ben off the hook. Yeah, he made some bad decisions, but they weren't illegal ones. It's not about race, Jim Beam, or blumpkins. It's about being fair. Yeah, he should know better. Yeah, he's got the money to have women come to HIS house. And when he walks out of the tunnel in Cleveland and Nirvana's "Rape Me" is blaring over the loudspeakers, when his own fans boo and the entire free world treats him like some sort of axe murderer...that will be his punishment for stupidity. Now, when are you gonna get yours for being such a foolish hypocrite?