Roger Goodell doesn't care what Ezekiel Elliott and the Dallas Cowboys want.

The controversial NFL commissioner is continuing to drag out a probe that has already been deemed invalid by Elliott, his agent and Cowboys' owner Jerry Jones at every turn. Even the Columbus (OH) criminal justice system found the allegations of domestic violence to be worthy of a dismissal, and nothing more.

One year after opening their very own probe into the 2016 rushing leader, the league is still reportedly mulling their verdict.

No Ezekiel Elliott decision expected this week, source said. Commissioner waiting for 4 outside advisors who attended meeting to finish work — Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) July 31, 2017

It's bad enough the NFL launched the probe in the first place, but to drag this on so unforgivably with seemingly no evidence is apprehensive even for Roger Goodell. Making the growing public relations nightmare even worse is news the lead investigator, Lisa Mendelson Friel, is a New York Giants' fan -- according to a feature done on her by The Daily Beast shortly after she was hired by the NFL:

She’s the sort of fan who turned the den of her Brooklyn home into a shrine (painting it Giants blue and red and decorating it with team paraphernalia and a life-size wall-hanging of Eli Manning), boasts season tickets that have been in her family for more than 60 years, and cheers her lungs out at every game at MetLife Stadium in the New Jersey Meadowlands. “She’s a rabid Giants fan,” says Friel’s former boss, Linda Fairstein, the famed New York prosecutor-turned-crime novelist. “I can be sitting at home staying good and toasty, watching a game, and she’s out there in all kinds of weather,” Fairstein says. “She knows football inside-out.”

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The Cowboys continue to churn on in a business-as-usual fashion, not knowing what decision Goodell and the league will render. And now, they'll be forced to wait that much longer while wondering if the league is actually being as impartial and fair as it claims.

At this point, they've already been anything but those two things.

If the NFL does hand down a suspension, you can count on this bit of evidence rearing its head in the appeals process; or a court of law, should it go that far.

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