Does Justice really pay?  Or is it a phrase we like to use whenever we’re in trouble?

In the aspect of the National Football League, we have seen Commissioner Roger Goodell suspend players and coaches alike for taking part in a bounty hunting scandal where players saw thousands apon thousands of dollars handed out whenever an opposing player got injured.

Justice served right?

So we’ve thought until a player stepped forward recently.

Jonathan Vilma, a linebacker for the New Orleans Saints had decided that this dictatorship in the NFL is enough as he has filed suit against Goodell for charging someone guilty without due process.  A clear violation of Vilma’s 5th Amendment rights of due process of seeing the evidence against him.

Goodell rejected Vilma of this honor because Goodell said that Vilma already knows what he did was wrong so there is no need to show him the evidence.

Do I believe what is going on here to be right?  To a point.

Goodell was justify in suspending Vilma for taking part in a improper action.  But at the same time too, Goodell set himself up to fail, lawsuit or not, because he refused a amendment right of Vilma’s.  In that case, I’m siding with Vilma.

The NFLPA has stepped up even to back up one of their own because of how wrong the commissioner is reacting to this request.

More or less, if Goodell was trying to make a point that these x-amount of people were involved and should be punished; then yeah he is justified in his actions.  But if a player wants to see the evidence against him, and with Goodell saying no;  by theory, Goodell had put himself in position that he had no evidence to defend himself.

Which brings me to this, if there’s no evidence, no beef behind these claims made by Goodell; or he is too afraid to show it cause he’s wrong.  Then he’s at fault from the get-go.

As a fan, I want to see this evidence as well that had cause this giant stir.  But, I guess we’ll see on June 18th and this summer of what will happen.