The village idiot of Las Vegas chats about the state of the NFL with a homeless comedian.

"You think if Roger gets fired he will have to sleep outside with Mike and me?" My friend Bob is a funny guy, I would venture to guess he is the funniest homeless guy in SW Las Vegas. The Roger he was referring to is Roger Goodell...the commissioner of the National Football League. "Something tells me Roger is going to be alright if he loses his job," I tell him with a grin on my face, "I don't think you'll see him sleeping on a bench outside the library anytime soon, but than again...I'm not always right," the two of us have been running this gag/discussion on each other since the Ray Rice video became public. It has blown over since then, but at one time it looked like Goodell's job might be in jeopardy.

"What about Ray Rice?" my homeless comedian friend says, "Do you think he might be sleeping on the bench next to the one Mike sleeps on?" I start laughing again and say, "He'll be sleeping on the bench long before Goodell does. No one is going to want the women beater of the year on their team."

We share another laugh and then he gives me the rundown on a show Jim Brown had at the Hilton many years ago. (Bob has been around Las Vegas for fifty years. Surprisingly, he looks good for a seventy year old homeless guy). Anyways, he tells me how Jim Brown called O.J. Simpson a women beater back in the early eighties on his show. And in turn O.J. threatened to come to Las Vegas and whip his ass - "You know what Jim Brown said to his audience when he heard about the threat?" Bob is great at delivering punch lines, "He said, 'I may be forty six, but I will whip O.J's ass in a second. The only people he is capable of beating up are women."

We share a laugh or two more and then I tell him I must be on my way, he says this as I am parting - "If Roger does lose his job, and he tries to move in on the bench Mike sleeps on," there was a brief silence and then he began to shake his head and wag his finger, "Well, I can tell you something right now brother. We will have some problems. He will have to sleep on the bench where all the cats congregate at. Mike and I hold the prime real estate at the library," I start laughing even harder than before.