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MapleLeafBlueJayBoy said:
Tim & Sid were talking today and said there have been 78 NFL players involved in domestic disputes since 2000. Only 7 have been released from their teams.
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Well "domestic disputes" probably don't always result in knocking out your fiancee. And I bet everyone who was caught on video was cut.
 
JackBurton said:
I think with this and the Sterling situation, emotion and humping-the-gun is occurring rather than studying the facts.
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Well, as far as I know, the facts are that a professional athlete knocked his fiancee out cold in a casino elevator and secondly, that it looks really bad on the NFL and the Ravens to have one of their athletes knocking out said fiancee out cold in a casino elevator.

So it seems to me the appropriate thing to do would be for the NFL/Ravens to punish him in some way and only a 2 game suspension definitely seems a little inappropriate given the circumstances. I wouldn't really have a problem if he eventually got a second chance in the NFL but I'm a little confused as to why some are so upset by the notion he might not play in the NFL again. I'm not sure how it'd be much different for another high profile person in a non-football career really. Companies don't like to be publicly associated with people who have behaved this way.
 
JackBurton said:
TMZ is reporting the NFL never asked to see it
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False. TMZ is reporting that the NFL did what they always do, which is they asked law enforcement for a copy of the tape. Who denied them.

If people want to blast them, and say they should have gone further than that to try and acquire a copy of said tape.....have at it. To say they didn't try to acquire it tho, is lying.
 
JackBurton said:
I think with this and the Sterling situation, emotion and humping-the-gun is occurring rather than studying the facts.
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Fact is, the NFL is a private club. Guys who embarrass the league on tape, whether they are a senile owner or an over the hill running back, can easily be replaced. Rich old farts and 27 yr old backs might as well be considered a dime a dozen. There a hundreds of them and they only need 32 of each.

This would be more interesting if this was the NBA and Lebron was caught on tape doing/saying something despicable.
 
Yep, after he served his time a team felt he could help them. I don't see it happening with Rice. If this was 2 years ago sure... but he's on the down slope now.
 
Habspatrol said:
Yep, after he served his time a team felt he could help them. I don't see it happening with Rice. If this was 2 years ago sure... but he's on the down slope now.
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He's also a RB, much easier to replace....and harder to get a starting gig.

No one is going to take that kind of baggage for a platoon RB on the decline.
 
"Ed Werder reporting on ESPN that NFL players have agreed on raising testing threshold for pot which would immediately bring 20 players back."
 
@AP: BREAKING: AP Source: Law enforcement official sent copy of Ray Rice tape to NFL executive in April




Ol' Roger may be kissing his $42 million dollar job goodbye.
 
Montana said:
@AP: BREAKING: AP Source: Law enforcement official sent copy of Ray Rice tape to NFL executive in April




Ol' Roger may be kissing his $42 million dollar job goodbye.
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I really like how this isnt about domestic abuse anymore.
 
MapleLeafBlueJayBoy said:
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones accused of sexual assault.
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I read the complaint.

A woman who photographed Ole Jerry with a stripper type, says he forcibly kissed her, fingered her and forced her to watch another woman go down on him. Of course, it took her five years of trauma counseling to get to the point she could sue him.
 
corksens said:
Ray Rice isn't the victim, but this incident is apparently significantly worse because it was captured on an audio-less camera.

We have absolutely zero context to what happened between the two. None of that makes what he did acceptable. Context is important no matter what.
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Jesus christ Cork, really?

It is not OK to hit a women under any circumstance. End of story.
 
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