The Ray Rice Elevator Video

Ravens' Purple is the color of Domestic Violence

 

So CBS has abandoned plans for a Rihanna song to be part of their coverage tonight. Hard to believe this was even on the table before the video leak, given the lyrics.

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jayz/runthistown.html

 

Uh oh, where's the Irony Police?

 

Michael Strahan on the Ray Rice Controversy:

 

Wow. I'm agreeing with fart boy on something. This is a really odd feeling.

To be fair, the league did wait until after the legal system was done with Roethlisberger. That is not the case with McDonald.

 

Yeah, because agreeing on the runnings of a kangaroo court is so outlandish.
If Jerry Richardson had the integrity he has claimed to have, he would discipline Hardy himself.
And if Goodell does not step down or is not dismissed, the power to suspend must at this point be placed elsewhere.

 

I mention that purple is the color of domestic violence awareness.

Female co-anchor: "Ah, the same color as the bruise."

 

Has it?

Oh, I know eleventy billion people have proclaimed their outrage toward The Shield.

How many will spend their Sundays on some other endeavor as a result?

Let's see what the attendance figures say, the TV ratings, the fantasy participation. Hell, let's see if there is any drop on this board's participation in the Week 2 NFL thread from the Week 1 thread.

I won't hold my breath.

 

if enough journalists treat the NFL with same skepticism and cynicism with which their colleagues treat the Presdiency and the Congress, maybe the Shield becomes a sieve. You don't have to treat the games the same way you treat the league.

But for the sake of your pride as journalists do you have to be so reverential to the NFL ? And for the sake of your professional souls there is no reason that NFL sources should be confidential. My god, it's not life or death

 

NBA players were (perhaps) ready to boycott playoff games because of a belief that the games and the league are linked, and the latter better clean its shit up or there won't be a former.

Is it too much to ask fans to share the same sentiment, when it costs them absolutely nothing? There really are thousands of ways to entertain oneself on a Sunday afternoon.

 

Ray Rice told NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on June 16 that he punched his then-fiancee in a casino elevator, four sources have told "Outside the Lines," an assertion that contradicts Goodell's statement this week that "when we met with Ray Rice and his representatives, it was ambiguous about what actually happened."

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/11509397/ray-rice-told-nfl-roger-goodell-june-had-hit-wife

You punched her? Are you sure? You didn't really punch her, did you? No, I can't believe that.

Christ. Did Goodell do anything right, anything at all?

 

name the sources. No reason to be anonymous.