Posted on 09/20/2014 11:54:32 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
The Ravens and the NFL were reeling Friday night from an explosive report stating the team conducted a wide-ranging cover-up of Ray Rice's elevator assault almost immediately after it happened in February.
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In defense of the NFL, this case is getting into a very gray area between an individual team and the leadership of the league. There are two things that limit the NFL’s ability to deal with situations like this: (1) the terms of the collective bargaining agreement between the NFL and the NFL Players Association, and (2) the fact that players are under contract with individual teams, not the NFL.
Covering up a video is a gray area to you? Wow.
Who covered up the video?
What does the NFL have to do with the personnel from a team conducting a "wide-ranging cover-up?"
I understand the idea of double jeapordy under the law but surely that doesn’t apply to organizations like the NFL. I’d think the nfl could penalize Rice as many times as it would like CBA notwithstanding.
Meanwhile, Ray Rice never denied the situation, completed the court-approved counseling, married the girlfriend and they attest to being a successful couple and parents. So why is Ray Rice the one who’s being punished?
I wish the media had shown this much interest in Benghazi. Or Fast and Furious. Or the Black Panther voter intimidation.
Well, why not?
After all, obama does it ALL the time!
“...you DIDN’T see what you think you saw... we DIDN’T say what you heard me say...”
This is the NEW Amerika... Ain’t no rules no more...
-only for Christians and Conservatives.
IOW, she started getting physical, he finished first.
And basically, who gives a ####? He makes (not earns) millions playing a game and has eight months off a year. She rides the gravy train and possibly drinks a lot. Oh, and she has a stupid made-up name.
Does this hotel or casino where Rice brutalized his fiancee routinely release security videos to the media and the public? I know they must have turned over the video to the police, just trying to understand how and why this video got into a game of keep-away between the Ravens and the media, neither of whom seem to have any obvious right to it.
I don’t get what it matters, or changes. People knew what he did without the video. It seems some are essentially taking the position that if it’s not on film, it didn’t happen.
They never wanted to see the video. The Ravens owner also contacted Rice right after his release via text to tell him he had a front office job waiting for him.
This was to keep him quiet and it backfired.
Harbaugh was virtually the only one in management immediately calling for Rice to be terminated over the incident. Was overruled by the owners.
The story I'm hearing in New Jersey is that a now-unemployed casino employee who got shafted on his severance pay sold it to TMZ. That's why this has hit the airwaves in recent weeks.
Former Major League Baseball commissioner Faye Vincent was interviewed on a New York City sports radio station today, and this was the main subject of the interview. He said the NFL's handling of the whole situation has been a disaster, but he also pointed out that a professional sports commissioner has to walk a very fine line when penalizing players who are already dealing with a criminal/legal process.
He mentioned a case involving Lenny Dykstra from his tenure, when Dykstra was involved in a motor vehicle crash while driving drunk. Vincent said he was reviewing the case to see what action the MLB commissioner's office should take, and ended up doing absolutely nothing -- on the advice of a retired judge who informed him that inserting himself into a case where a player was already facing criminal charges could be very problematic from a legal standpoint.
The real problem here -- which nobody wants to talk about -- is that the NFL has very little authority over individual teams, has no interest in getting involved in player personnel decisions, and has no way of dealing with team owners who insist on signing psychotic mutants to play on their teams.
32 teams, ~50 players each, ~1600 positions. Not all positions are open.
How many college football players have a shot? How many make it?
Think being accepted to medical school is difficult?
There are over 800,000 physicians in the USA!
Yes, people need to get fired!
Lets see if anyone is punished-they won't be!
Slap on the wrist!
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