Mr. Goodell, may I have a moment of your time?

I don't write many letters these days ? most of my communication with people is done over e-mail, text messaging, phone calls and the always present Facebook. However, after some thinking over the last few weeks, I decided to polish up my letter writing skills and pen a quick note to Roger Goodell.

After all, it's not like he's got a lot of work to do these days.

Dear Mr. Goodell,

I understand that your time is at a premium these days so I'll do my best to keep this note short. Actually, I have one simple question for you right now:

Am I going to be able to continue my Sunday routine or not this fall?

You see, Mr. Goodell, I became a creature of habit in the last five or six years regarding my football teams on Sundays. In college, I got into the habit of working either the 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. or 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. customer service/photo lab shifts at Hy-Vee. This steady pattern meant I would either get home in time to catch the last bit of the Chiefs game or the first half ? either way, I was guaranteed the missing parts to be filled in by a friend who loved his Chiefs. Logan always let me know if his beloved team had self-destructed ? again.

My Sundays felt empty if I didn't catch even a few moments of a Chiefs game, Mr. Goodell. Then I moved to southeast Iowa and re-discovered my love for Packers football. After the move, I began a new Sunday habit of listening to the noon Chiefs game on the radio and then hoping at 3 p.m. to be able to watch the Packers game, if my over-the-air signal was working. I started scheduling my laundry and cleaning schedule around these games.

Even if I had three plates and a handful of silverware left to wash in the kitchen sink, once one of those games came on, I knew those dishes would still be there in a few hours. Unfortunately, they wouldn't clean, dry and put themselves away during the games; the same could be said for my two-week build up of laundry.

Mr. Goodell, I'm not saying I'm against change ? I embrace change most of the time. But this lockout situation seems just plain silly when you consider it will possibly upend mine and millions of other Sunday routines across the globe. That's a lot of upset people if you ask me.

Without football, the Monday morning conversations in America will be dull and nearly lifeless. Talking heads on cable networks may be laid off without any content to discuss on air, thus keeping the percentage of unemployed workers on a monthly upward tick instead of slowly dropping. But on the flipside, productivity trends among those who are employed may slowly increase without the ability to converse about Sunday's games. Mr. Goodell, you don't want to be responsible for that, now do you?

I understand the root of this lockout is money and whether or not the players and owners are making enough of it. Most people these days are concerned about whether or not their paychecks can stretch just enough to cover their living expenses, why shouldn't the million and billionaires?

I've learned this magical skill called budgeting Mr. Goodell, as I've discovered that since leaving college sometimes, paychecks just don't go as far as one would like. I understand that some players have been vocal about the money they've already been paid not going as far as they would like. Perhaps if the players can not work out at their team's multi-million dollar facility, you may be able to point the players in the direction of a low-to-no cost financial management class in their town.

The same can be said for team owners concerned about their share of the money. Sometimes, sitting down and looking at your expenses makes you realize you really don't need that summer home on Cape Cod and those personal cooks might not always be necessary. Unless a team owner wants to make apple crisp, then I recommend keeping a cook around at least part time.

Mr. Goodell, when you start to think about it, this lockout is bad for this country. Not only is it potentially depriving millions of a few hours of escapism each Sunday for a few months, it isn't helping the economic recovery in this country. After all, isn't putting Americans back to work the main focus for the recovery right now? If the players can't work, the players can't spend their hard earned money and the economy stays in the tank.

I guess there probably is no simple solution to this problem. Litigation is time consuming, expensive and tedious. But, Mr. Goodell, just in case the current process doesn't bring about any end to the lock out by the beginning of training camp, may I suggest a potential solution since regards of the current outcome, someone is going to be rather upset.

Rock-paper-scissors. Best two of three, just to be fair.

Thanks for listening Mr. Goodell.