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The Ray Rice Elevator Video

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by YankeeFan, Sep 8, 2014.

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  1. Double Down

    Double Down Well-Known Member

    And you're not wrong. But Harbaugh isn't going to say ANYTHING without direction from his bosses on this, who have decided they simple do not need to answer questions about it. He may sound like a meathead, but he's being offered up to the media by people who actually make the decisions. If Bisciotti or Newsome had told Harbaugh to condemn this from the beginning, that's what you would have heard. He's about as corporate of a coach in front of cameras as there is.
     
    Double Down, Sep 9, 2014
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  2. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    That's interesting, DD -- his brother is the exact opposite, working in conflict with the organization to the point that they often have to clean up his mess.

    Of course that's why he could win the Super Bowl this year and yet still be gone by mutual decision.
     
    LongTimeListener, Sep 9, 2014
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  3. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    NFL Announces New Zero-Tolerance Policy On Videotaped Domestic Violence

    "I also want to stress that this utterly reprehensible behavior is something we will in no way tolerate as long as the footage is completely uninterrupted and the entirety of the assault takes place within frame."

    http://www.theonion.com/articles/nfl-announces-new-zerotolerance-policy-on-videotap,36885/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=LinkPreview:1:Default&recirc=unsponsored
     
    LongTimeListener, Sep 9, 2014
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  4. Double Down

    Double Down Well-Known Member

    Yup. Now give me 5,000 more words on both men and you've got a great book proposal.
     
    Double Down, Sep 9, 2014
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  5. dreunc1542

    dreunc1542 Active Member

    http://www.sbnation.com/2014/9/9/6126121/why-i-stayed
     
    dreunc1542, Sep 9, 2014
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  6. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Think about this, then: The company line of the Baltimore Ravens, as determined by high-level executives and disseminated through the GM and head coach, was, essentially, "She was asking for it."

    What bubble do you have to live in in 2014 America to gather in a room and, by consensus, decide this is what you're going to go with?

    And, the thing is, for seven months, the bastards got away with it.
     
    Dick Whitman, Sep 9, 2014
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  7. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    Because their main concern was that it blow over so they could "get back to business," not that justice get served.
     
    MisterCreosote, Sep 9, 2014
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  8. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Fuck every left-leaning Web site that is in full outrage mode today. Fuck Slate. Fuck Salon. Fuck Mother Jones. Fuck The Atlantic.

    Seven months ago, John Harbaugh was spewing bullshit that would have made a 1950s American shake his or her head. They could have saved Janay Palmer Rice from seven months of this nonsense. They elected not to. Go team.
     
    Dick Whitman, Sep 9, 2014
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  9. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    Probably too soon, but I laughed:

    http://www.sportspickle.com/2014/09/ravens-release-joe-flacco-seeing-video-playing-football
     
    Steak Snabler, Sep 9, 2014
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  10. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    I didn't say anything about the TV contracs, but about revenues and income being up.

    I do believe that Goodell is a force behind their TV revenue. It is the one thing he is consensus considered good at. Goodell played a major role in the launch of the NFL network (he ran NFL ventures, too), and even before he was commissioner, he played a major role in negotiating the TV contracts.

    At the end of the day, those TV contracts only get more and more lucrative if the NFL has leverage. That means the NFL has to be popular. And it is hugely popular. As a result, it has been able to make crazy demands on the networks and still get them to line up and bid against each other for the right to broadcast games. The networks are getting hit by streaming services such as netflix, which makes the NFL super valuable to them.

    It would be easy to say that with that leverage, a chimp could have negotiated the TV contracts. But I'd say that is unfair. In any negotiation, no matter how much leverage you have, you can only push the other side so far. The league has been emboldened to carve up the rights to its games over and over again in a variety of ways, in order to suck more and more revenue out of them. And in the process, they have had to say no to networks that they had done business with for decades. That is not easy to do, and still ensure that the next time around, they are going to be at the table bidding, eager as ever.

    Also, without the NFL's popularity, those rights aren't so valuable. What I posted earlier was that the NFL is still riding a popularility wave, even with all of the embarrassments that DD posted. From the owners' perspective, those embarrassments only reflect poorly on Goodell, if viewership is down, merchandise sales are down, etc. That may happen yet. And in the short-term this is sad, because a major component in the NFL's success over decades has been its ability to control its image. But until the recent missteps result in people tuning out (fans are the source of all of the revenue). ... I'd imagine the owners aren't turning on Goodell.
     
    The Big Ragu, Sep 9, 2014
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  11. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    I pray this incident (the cover-up, not the crime) is the tipping point for the NFL's long and well-deserved slide into ignominy. Nothing lasts forever, and the chorus of lapdogs telling us how great the NFL, is, what a huge business it is, how it's the greatest sport on Earth, clearly signals the beginning of the end.
     
    goalmouth, Sep 9, 2014
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  12. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    As millions of people hit refresh on their fantasy football stats.
     
    Songbird, Sep 9, 2014
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