OT: Ray Rice Suspended Two Games
Ray Rice reportedly suspended two games by the NFL for allegedly beating his fiance (now wife) unconscious.
What an absolute joke.
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24635625/report-ravens-rb-…
Ugh.
DJ Gallo: The Ray Rice lesson is clear: If you're caught smoking weed, quickly tape the joint to a woman's face and punch it.
People have been teeing off on this on twitter. Rice gets two games but Terrelle Pryor gets five for getting free tattoos when he wasn't even in the NFL. It's also a four game suspension if you test positive for adderall. Just a farce.
You mean Pryors college ban right? You can't blame inconsistency between 2 totally different organizations
The NBA (rightly) expells Sterling for being a bigot, while the NFL slaps the wrist of someone who beats women.
Follow the money.
Just sickening...
This is morally repugnant of the NFL. How can they seriously justify a two game suspension?
NBC ended their article with this bit of appropriate sarcasm:
"But perhaps more poignantly, he’ll be back on the field by October, when the NFL wraps itself in pink to remind us how valuable their female customers are to them."
Just a wonderful, strange world down there at the NFL office in New York. Potential year-long ban for pot, the threat of hefty fines for wearing the wrong cleats (the whole Brandon Marshall thing), but two games for a violent assault on someone. Roger Goodell hasn't perchance visited small terrestrial planet known as Earth, has he?
Don't forget gay players being a "distraction" and players being blackballed from the league for expressing support for civil rights.
Assuming you're talking about Chris Kluwe, I rather doubt he's being "blackballed" for "supporting civil rights." He's not on a team because he's not a very good punter and has one of the weakest punting legs in the league, and he's old and expensive for a punter.
Plus it's very hard to want to sign a guy who makes incredibly loud noises about suing when he doesn't get his way. Michael Sam: not really a distraction. "I'm suing the team because they didn't do enough about a coach who said things I didn't like" = HUGE distraction.
Fair enough. The NFL doesn't exactly have a great track record of tolerance though. Kerry Rhodes didn't somehow become terrible at football overnight.
Apparently, the woman married him, but was he convicted? My stance is and will always be that conviction or an admission of guilt (even a no contest plea) should be the minimum before a league suspends anybody. Charges alone mean nothing, especially with corrupt police.
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2014-07-01/features/bal-ray-rice-janay…
Corrupt police (it's in NJ, but not AC)
Two VERY different systems of punishment, with different standards of proof, rules of evidence, etc. No one suspended for steroids is ever convicted of anything. No one suspended for bumping an official or attempting to injure an opponent is ever convicted of anything. Tropp and Conboy never saw a courtroom.
In this case, there are witnesses to Ray Rice punching a woman in the face. There is video of him DRAGGING an unconscious woman out of an elevator. Conviction or no, you suspend his ass for WAY longer than two games.
They are different, but your examples are not a fair comparison.
Steroids are against the NFL rules because of an unfair competitive advantage and bumping an official/ purposefully injuring an opponent happens on the field of play.
The video (of his alleged uppercut) was never released to the press. I think we both agree that Ray Rice is a sack of sh*t, but the NFL (or any league) should not be able to suspend players (and deprive them of income) when the police don't charge the player, especially for cases where the offense is routinely charged. It's the only neutral way to handle things.
I understand why the NFL suspended him (for PR and to not have protests at games), but that's not a good enough opinion, IMO.
Their CBA gives Goodell pretty wide latitude on "personal conduct." Suffice it to say, Ray Rice's conduct was less than good. If the NFL doubted the evidence, Rice likely wouldn't have been suspended at all. It's pretty clear that they tolerate Rice's behavior more than that of others who've been suspended longer.
2 seasons?
Just from reading up on the case, it appears that he pleaded not guilty on May 1st. He was then allowed to enter into a Pre-trial Intervention Program on May 20th that allows the charges to be dropped after he completes the program along with counseling with his now wife.
If he did plead guilty my arguement is null and void.
Lol stop dude. There is video of him beating the shit out of her.
Nor does any study alleging racism in New Jersey. The whole incident was caught on tape.
Aaron Hernandez should still be in the league (provided he was out on bail of course). He hasn't been convicted of anything, and admits he didn't do the crimes against him.
So Josh Gordon gets suspended for a year, for harming nobody, while smoking a plant thats legal in Colorado even....
..and Rice is caught on tape having knocked out his girlfriend and dragging her unconscious out of an elevator, and he gets a slap on wrist.
Josh Gordon is a bad example. The guy is self-destructing and will hurt someone eventually if he doesn't get help soon.
Baltimore Ravens > Cleveland Browns I guess.
Only makes sense - a player beats the living shit out of women and gets a two-game suspension. Josh Gordon wll miss the entire year for the henious crime of smoking a joint. And I guess the year long suspensions only apply for these crimes against humanity only apply to players. Havent heard anything about Mr Irsay getting asked to remove himself from the Colts now have we?
Seriously - how in the hell does Godell look himself in the mirror?
The Irsay thing bugs me. Adam Silver was quick to get rid of Sterling for sharing his opinion in a private conversation. Yet Goodell doesn't care if his owners commit felonies.
So much for Roger trying to clean up the league. It's a disgrace. Another reason why the NFL sucks.
Clearly the NFL inhabits some sort of hyper-Iowa, where everything is 40 years behind the rest of us. Smoking marijuana is a significant crime (we don't want a bunch of hippies running around), gay athletes are a major distraction, but beating a woman is just part of keeping her in line. If you cross the line and go too far, well, we understand, but we need to give you a slap on the wrist (wink, wink) so it doesn't look like we're condoning it.
Let me know when the NFL progresses 40 years, and I'll start watching it again.
Point taken but, to clarify, it's the media making a stink about there being a distraction with Sam, not the NFL. Nobody actually inside the league has said anything about him being anything other than a model citizen and a rookie trying his hardest to make the team.
More than a few front office folks and coaches made anonymous statements about being wary of drafting him. Yes, it's also ex-coaches and commentariat saying it, but not just them.
Ya but she loves him.
/s
Alright NFL... message received.
That'll teach him.
the NFL wears pink to show their solidarity.
Will be quite ironic seeing Ray Rice decked out in pink gloves and shoes
Damn Shame
Hey diddle diddle Ray Rice up the middle
Remember when Goodell was thought of as a good commissioner...
Not only has he removed a significant portion of the fun out of the game, players are getting away with a lot... It's all about the money.
Unfortunately, we have no alternatives, and when I say I am not going to watch, you all know I'm lying... So how do we fix this going forward?
Would you all feel as strongly about him deserving a longer suspension if it had been a man that he hit instead of a woman?
Is this Man a Buckeye fan???
So I can knock you out and drag you around the Big House by your hair?
You can try, brah.
Assault is assault.
Why didn't you neg the guy who said no? Clearly he believes you are wrong.
BTW, I agree with you. However many people on this thread seem to be stressing the fact that he hit a woman, not that he committed assault.
Thanks for pointing that out. He has also been negged.
I was more negging because our POSbang to NEGbang ratio has been thrown out of balance with our 4-5 POSbangs a week. We need to get our points under control.
Sorry you had to feel the brunt of my crusade. You have earned a point back.
Inflation is out of control! I commend you for your work in the MGOBLOG Treasury Dept.
That why so many of you think you are doing the right thing and "standing up for women" when in reality you are just feeding a culture that has held them back for years. People can't be equal if you refuse to treat them as equals.
It's like all those people who sign Jay Leno's petition to end women's suffrage, keep fighting the good fight!
Was that wr who killed a guy while drunk driving suspended? Can't think of his name, but he never did jail time because he paid off the family. I think he played for Cleveland and Pittsburgh.