Say what you want about Roger Goodell’s reign of terror as NFL commish, the bottom line is that generally anything he’s wanted to do, he’s done. Roger wanted to clean up the league’s image, so he started suspending players for doing anything that may sully it. Roger wanted the Patriots Spygate story to go away, so he did that as well just by saying he saw the footage and there was nothing to be concerned about.

Of course, it’s not just the teams and players that make up his NFL that Goodell is concerned about. He does care about the fans as well, and obviously he cares about the league’s premier event: the Super Bowl. So for his next trick, Roger plans on finding a way to help fans get a chance to actually go to the Super Bowl by keeping tickets out of the hands of scalpers.

From the LOS ANGELES TIMES:

Goodell said Tuesday that the league was looking into the best ways to get its lowest-priced postseason tickets into the hands of actual fans, and not into those of secondary ticket brokers who send prices skyrocketing.

“It’s difficult and it’s time consuming, but it may be the next step that we need to take is where you actually say, ‘You come to the stadium with your identification, and you’ll get your two tickets after you’re inside the gate,’ ” Goodell told a small group of reporters in Los Angeles.

“The reality is that Super Bowl tickets are trading at four to five times face value,” Goodell said. “One of the big issues that we had in reducing those lower-priced tickets is, do they fall into the wrong hands? Do the scalpers go and take them, and they get the reduced price?

“All they do is get a better margin, which we’re not interested in. . . . We’re trying to figure out how to get the tickets to the fans.”

Exactly how Roger plans on doing all this, I have no idea, and I don’t think he does either but I wouldn’t put it past him that he’ll figure something out. Personally, while I appreciate that Goodell is trying to keep prices to the Super Bowl lower so we can all go, I don’t think it makes a very big difference.

Sure, the price may stay at $500 but the odds of me being able to buy a ticket are still miniscule. With the brokers the prices may increase drastically, but so do my chances of actually being able to buy a ticket. All I have to do is come up with the money. If I want to buy tickets through the league not only do I have to come up with the money, but I have to cross my fingers and pray that some machine draws my name out of a pool of millions.

Maybe instead of trying to solve this unsolvable situation, Roger would be better off trying to teach his referee’s what forward passeas are and instructing his players that games can end in ties.