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I don't think any athletic commission should be acting as a moral authority in the first place, to be honest. If this guy seriously assaulted his wife, it's a criminal matter and he should be tried, possibly serve some time or probation etc, then the NFL can decide how to act based on what is legally pending. What they have to say about it before the fact is and should be completely irrelevant, and it speaks to how silly people are about sports. If one a)believes this guy is guilty as charged, and b) puts their faith in the NFL to determine his punishment, they may as well go knock themselves unconscious imo. How many days of work do you think the average person deserves to miss for assaulting their wife? Not exactly the way things should work.
Very good, logical post.

I don't think a player should be banned for knocking out his wife either. Now if you attacked another player in a game, then sure, the authorities can ban you and legal action can be taken too. But something outside of that is personal and I don't think your job is a 24 hour one. That's why I am also against workplace drug and medical checkups, I just don't think it should be any of their business. If you are doing your job, then that is enough. If you hit your wife and she wants to sue you and divorce you, then that is cool too. I hate the media and how they try to make stories about nothing and this is another of those. That one about the racist team owner was another non-story. Mainstream media is beyond pathetic.

I don't think anybody has the right to hit any other person. We can say things heatedly, but when it comes down to it, unless somebody tries to attack you, then you should never lay a finger on another person. Hitting somebody else is the ultimate sign of weakness and loss of control. Knocking your wife out is one of the worst things you can do, but the result of that is up to the wife to decide. It should have nothing to do with your boss. I don't see how they are connected....unless the wife is also the boss perhaps?





We want to be so damn technical about things, we lose the humanity of it all. Yeah... so it's up to the law-enforcement authorities to do something about incidents like Ray Rice's KO-ing of his wife. The NFL should stay out of things, unless it includes on-the-field incidents. That's all nice and sweet, but.....


BULLSHIT. Goodell first of all was big enough to admit that the 2-game suspension first handed out to Rice was inadequate, in the face of all the criticism he and the NFL received. The NFL does not operate in a vacuum. It caters to fans... many of the very young and impressionable variety. How many young boys out there would see that play out like it did at first... watch graphic videos of Rice knocking out his then-fiancée... and get a slap on the wrist from the league. Worst yet.... see the guy welcomed back with open arms by his team and his fans.


Anyone can make a mistake. But Rice's mistake was huge. Some here will joke around that he should've used an open hand... or he should've just jabbed instead of throwing a hook. But is it really that funny? How must the woman's family feel? How about the real problem of spousal abuse? Trying to make up ground and working to resolve a very real problem... how about those people?


I'm gonna say it again. Goodell earns whatever money they pay him. He's got to deal with the media circuses surrounding every time a player takes a dump in the wrong place. He gets second-guessed left and right. Too lenient... too strong.


The NFL is not your typical workplace... so quit trying to draw parallels. Professional athletes are entertainers. They get paid ridiculous amounts of money to play a game... and all we ask in return is that they refrain from being wife-beaters, drug-addicts, or habitual law-breakers. What a tough job!


Will the NFL get every decision right? Of course not. But they've shown the balls to go back and reverse their field when they feel they've gotten it wrong. It's the most human and thoughtful thing to do.