The Ray Rice Elevator Video

No I meant Goodell is family at Fox News. His wife used to be a bubblehead there.

 

Important distinction to be made here: If the source told King the league "had to have seen it" without coming right out and saying "the league saw it," then King royally fucked up all on his own.

Journalism 101. You don't assume shit, especially when it's a huge national story that could destroy your credibility. Duh.

Now if the source told King that NFL higher-ups definitely saw the video, and was lying, then yeah cut the source loose in as humiliating a manner as humanly possible.

 

The source told King the league saw it. I have no doubt. But King is so invested in league officials looking good that he will help them with anything.

 

Mort, on TV this summer:

"Janay, very effective in explaining her errors in this assault."

Good god.

 

It is so awesome to watch the NFL and NFL media establishment try to squirm out of this while Deadspin keeps throwing fastballs at their collective heads.

 

so basically Peter King is an intern in the NFL PR office

 

Maybe he's angling for a job. He could be the NFL's Baghdad Bob, as it were.

 

Schefter last month: "Was the commissioner lenient enough?"

 

Feb. 20 NBC Sports. Elevator video showing punch in police hands. How did the NFL not see this? And how did they think this is different? I recall reading somewhere a quote from month or two ago like "He hit her with an uppercut. He hit her like he would a guy." How would that be 2 games before?

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/02/20/report-video-exists-of-ray-rice-knocking-out-fiancee/

 

Such a fucking lawyer.

 

Strong column from Greg Beddard as MMQB tries to regain it's
credibility:
http://mmqb.si.com/2014/09/08/ray-rice-video-cut-by-ravens-suspended-by-nfl/

"As for the Goodell and the league office, their credibility took a huge hit in regards to the video. Whether they saw it before Monday or not doesn’t really matter in the end, because it ends up in the same place: ineptitude. If they saw the video and thought two games was the proper suspension for Rice, they failed. If they didn’t push to see the video before reaching their original decision, they also failed."

 

No, it doesn't. It makes her a very typical victim of domestic violence, though.