With a potential lockout looming after this season, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has his hands full, so much so that he's letting a few things slip through his fingers.

That's where I come in.

So, while leaning back on a nice leather chair in a swanky office, here are a few missives I'll fire off before he comes back.

From the Office of the (Temporary) Commissioner:

1. Catches are catches. For example, Calvin Johnson's end zone catch, which would have given the Detroit Lions a huge victory over the Chicago Bears in Week 1.Getting two feet down, landing on the ground, having a defender touch you on the way down, roll up and push the ball off the ground to get up — sorry, that's a catch.If all a running back has to do is break the plane of the goal line, why should a receiver catch the ball, control it all the way, sing "Mary Had a Little Lamb," then walk away to make it legal?Ridiculous. You catch it and hold it to the ground, that's enough.

2.

The 18-game regular season — scrap it. This ranks up there will the stupid idea of holding a Super Bowl at London's Wembley Stadium.If it wasn't already painfully obvious, Week 1 showed that football is a dangerous sport. More games means more injuries and a weakened product on the field by season's end. And if you clinched a playoff spot three or four weeks early, like Indianapolis did last year, those games will be fun to watch.

3. Kill long-term contracts. Contracts need to be honored. A player like Darrelle Revis signs a six-year deal, gets millions of dollars up front in a signing bonus, then, three years in, he holds out because lower than another star player.If guaranteed money is the hook, guarantee the contract. Nothing more than three-year deals should be doled out with the money spread over the length of the contract. What you pay each year is the salary cap hit.Players can play to their contracts, then move on if they chose and owners can do the same.4.

Put more money into the retirement and health funds. Sadly, those behemoth 350-pound linemen no longer have that day-to-day physical activity. You're going to see a lot of players have life-and-death issues as early as their 40s.5.

Half-price exhibition seats, available on a first-come, first-served basis. No packaged deal with regular-season and playoff games.6.

Turn back the clock. Return to Sunday games at 1 and 4 p.m., two Thanksgiving Day and Saturday wild-card games only.I like the NFL, but I can't squeeze it into my schedule four days a week.Well, gotta run, someone's coming. I have a lot more ideas, but I don't think I'll be asked back.Sam Tallarico is a staff writer for the Butler Eagle.