Problem is, when you talk about all the "horrible" things she did, you take away from the fact Ray Rice cold cocked his fiancee. I've been spit on by a chick, I've been kicked in the head, punched in the face by a chick.... my immediate reaction was not to cold cock them. In fact tbh it wasn't all that bad because I outweighed them by like 100 pounds.

The sentence should go like this, Ray Rice is an asshole and deserves to rot in prison.

Not Ray Rice is an asshole and deserves to rot in prison BUT his girlfriend is a stupid head for hitting him. Come on man, get it through your head.

Yeah. She probably burned dinner the night before, too. Just sayin'.

He settled with the woman out of court for money.

Cards John Abraham out indefinitely and might even be considering retirement after getting a serious concussion during the Chargers game.

Doug Martin didn't practice today either, probably will sit out this week. I hope so since that scumbag Triple A has him and I'm going against him in D&D battles

<font color=goldenrod>Less than 24 hours after Goodell went on national TV and explained that they asked law enforcement officials for the tape and never received it...the law enforcement official who was asked for the tape confirmed that it was sent to Goodell and the Ravens 3 months ago.

Goodell is done.</font>

NFL "investigating" the executive/s that received and watched the video. Looks like they are going to try to pin it on their employees instead of Goodell. Classy.

According to ESPN'S Outside The Line report, Ray Rice spat on his wife at least once leading up to the incident in the elevator. Might explain why she was in a piss off mood and hit him prior to getting knocked out cold.

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/...sportscenterTW

<font color=goldenrod>Yep. I think Goodell will wind up gone anyway though. I said it when the video first got out on Monday - anybody who had any part in the decision-making process has to go.

If this happened in nearly any other company in America, everybody on top would have been fired months ago.</font>

I should send my resume to the NFL, just in case

I wonder if the next NFL commissioner will actually care about the concussion epidemic we're watching these current players live through.

good guy Sean Payton

click

Always good to hear a positive story like that... sucks about Stills' daughter though, that is heartbreaking

I dont agree with what Ray Rice did but also dont see what the big deal is here. Rays wife has forgive him for what he did and she is the victim, so why cant any one else. If a construction worker was to have done this would they be calling for his bosses job for letting him work. Goddel shouldnt be fired or resign for somthing one of his players did. 2 games for a misdameanor is good enough I think.

shut up

More from ESPN's Outside the Lines report stated that Rice told Goodell everything that happened in the elevator and wasn't "ambiguous" or Rice hiding/lying about certain things.

Even if the NFL's claims of never seeing the full video were true, Rice told them the entire story.

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NFL fined Antonio Brown $8,200 for the Brogue Kick he gave to Cleveland's punter during last week's game.

This just pisses me off even more. I could see the reaction to the video on Monday if he had lied in any way about what happened, but if he owned up 100% to what happened in the meeting with them then there shouldn't have been anything "shocking" about what was on the video. I'm in the group who thinks his suspension is the result of the NFL trying to save face from the whole fiasco when they didnt levy a harsher penalty to begin with.

Ray Rice could sue the NFL

he'd have to have proof the NFL saw the video from inside the elevator before they levied the original 2 game suspension, since its against the collective bargaining agreement with the players association to penalize a player twice for the same issue.

I just want this game to start, and its still over an hour away..ugh

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Phil Simms looks like Bob Backlund from the old school WWF <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/nfl?src=hash">#nfl</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbs?src=hash">#cbs</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/tnf?src=hash">#tnf</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ravens?src=hash">#ravens</a></p>&mdash; Matthew (@droford) <a href="https://twitter.com/droford/status/510220197190709248">September 12, 2014</a></blockquote>
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If I wanted to read your tweets, I would follow you on Twitter. Why couldn't you just post that normally?

and we 're even on the BS penalties

What the fuck are people talking about "receiving the tape" and it being "mailed" to somebody. It was a fucking iphone video

I'm pretty sure it was security camera footage that would have been recorded. I bet the term tape means disc though.

The Steelers probably should be concerned their offense has scored 9 points in the last 5 qtrs.

Steelers are shit.

Steelers are very bad.

It can't be that the Ravens are good? Defense has allowed 7 FGS/1TD in 2 games. This Ravens team has enough offense to win games if the defense can keep that up.

and the Hay is in the barn!

Hey the Ravens won :)

They are a decent/good football team but the Steelers seems AWFUL.

Ravens defense is solid. Better than I thought they would be this uear. Steelers D is pretty shaky.

Getting Owen Daniels was a good pickup. Have always loved that guy.

<font color=goldenrod>Regretting that Steelers 2nd wild card prediction.</font>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-7jhExgppE

skip to 4m 38s too see NFL official

My thoughts on Ray Rice Punching wife

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0R8...Hzsf2LCKAlbrQA

It's Week 2

<font color=goldenrod>I know. Doesn't change that they've looked very bad though, can't forget they very nearly choked away a huge lead at home to Cleveland.</font>

Seems like every year in week 2 Dallas goes on the road to play a team that ends up making a "surprise" playoff appearance. With Tennessee being a trendy pick to make the playoffs even before last week, it got me thinking how oddly similar every week 2 game has felt lately.

Last year in week 2 it was @ Kansas City. 2-14 the year before, surprise playoff appearance.

The year before it was @ Seattle. 4 straight losing seasons, surprise playoff appearance with a rookie QB.

The year before it was @ San Francisco. Perennial NFC West basement dwellers, surprise playoff/NFC championship appearance.

And now @ Tennessee this year.

<font color=goldenrod>Not totally sure how much of a surprise KC were. Like yeah obv they were horrible in 2012, but a lot of people penciled KC in for the playoffs last year simply because they had Charles, a good defense, a new coach (it's fun to make fun of Andy Reid but he has at least gotten teams to the playoffs a bunch of times) and most importantly one of the weakest looking schedules in NFL history.

Still not too sure how I feel about Tennessee. Can't decide if they played really well on Sunday or if KC just completely suck.</font>

<font color=goldenrod>Another day, and things continue to look worse for Goodell. NFL has now given the reason for Rice's increased suspension, basically saying it's because he lied about what actually happened. This of course flies in the fact of the Outside the Lines report with multiple sources claiming Rice told Goodell exactly what happened, and the report from Ravens executives that what Rice told them was exactly what was on the video.

For us to believe this latest pile of bullshit, that would mean that the NFL based its first suspension not on the criminal report filed with police, which explained the events in detail, matching what was on the video, but instead they based it entirely on the testimony of Ray Rice.

There is literally nothing the NFL can do anymore that doesn't immediately contradict something else they said or make them look like complete and utter morons.

And on the new drug policy front, it's expected to get approved tonight, allowing Welker to play this weekend, somehow, nonsensically, Josh Gordon still has an 8 game suspension.</font>

What people are losing in all this is that the Ravens "fully backed and supported" Rice while hearing the same recanting of events from Rice himself that the NFL did, and only had issue with it when it became a PR disaster. Fuck the Ravens too

The fact that no one, the league nor the team, got the whole story and just took Rice at his word bothers me. It seems that, if the report of Goodell being told the real story in June is true, no one from "the office" went to the Ravens with that information.

Like, are we to believe that Rice lied to the team so he could have their support, but told Goodell the truth?

Had a longer post but it kept fucking up because mobile

http://www.myfoxhouston.com/story/26...ld-injury-case

Wonder what he did.

They should investigate the child to see what he did to provoke Adrian Peterson.

He <strike>disciplined</strike>beat his kid with a switch. Vikings have "deactivated" him.

now we get to have the "is it discipline or child abuse to beat your kid with a switch" debate and the inevitable "back in my day my parents whacked me on the behind with a 2x4 and I turned out great" thanks NFL

AP de-activated. Vikings going down now! Happy birthday to me!

<font color=goldenrod>Peterson allegedly shoved leaves in his child's mouth and beat him with a switch several times, including hitting him in the scrotum with it. Fucking terrible, if true.</font>

what is a "switch"

edit: like a tree branch thing i guess

it'd be funny if the Vikings still beat the Pats without him.

:nono:

http://ll-media.tmz.com/2014/09/12/0...injuries-7.jpg

That's what he did. Guy deserves to get canned from the NFL. Just because that's how he was punished as a kid doesn't make it alright. Gotta rise above the abuse of the past generations and figure out a way to raise kids that doesn't involve senselessly beating them when they do wrong.

Stuff like that can be a really tough cycle to break but agree about him needing a big punishment. That's well beyond just normal discipline he did to his kid.

They shouldn't do anything to Adrian Peterson because he's on my fantasy team and that's not fair.

Kids need an ass whoopin sometimes, nothing to see here.

Ended up taking 2 grand juries to get an indictment possible.

http://www.click2houston.com/news/at...ounty/28035452

<font color=goldenrod>Panthers deactivate Greg Hardy. Good. The owners can't say they are against domestic violence and still allow these guys to suit up. The teams need to police themselves for now because the league is incompetent.</font>

Dammit, Locker. TONY ROMO is supposed to be the one to throw interceptions NOT YOU!

RG Knee is now also RG Ankle.

May as well just pull this from the casual thread.

RG Michael Vick 2

one of the things that should be discussed all week is how bad the Broncos offense has been in the 2nd half. only 3 pts today after 7 last week, nearly giving away the game again.

SORRY ASS RECEIVER!

Crabtree gets first TD in the new arena on his birthday.

Game clock was at like -1.

Touchdown confirmed.

welp....thanks for 15 years of great football, Mr. Tillman. Those tears tell me its over.

Can't believe the bears are in this. Down to two healthy corner backs. One is having a hell of a game.

DA BEARS!

Well that was quite a day of football.

Fuck.

On one hand you're right it is kind of sad they shut down at halftime, on the other 24 and 31 should be enough to win games no matter when they are scored.

Browns are the best team in the league!

<font color=goldenrod>Walt Thurmond done for the year with a torn pec. Ugh.</font>

J Cutler ridiculous stat line... like 176 yards and 4 tds

Vikings reinstated Adrian Peterson after his 1 game punishment.

So, violently beating the shit out of your child gets less of a punishment than smoking pot...

Yay NFL!

This was the Vikings reinstating him, The NFL has not punished him, yet.

Josh Gordon messed himself over because he CONSTANTLY had the same issues going on. The drug policy has just been redone. PLUS, if the rule book clearly states that you will receive a 8 game ban for smoking pot then why the heck are you doing it? That is on the idiotic player.

You're right in the fact that he knew the rules and took the risk. He deserves some sort of punishment. That fact remains though that marijuana being a banned substance is a ridiculously antiquated rule. It needs to be addressed. No matter how many offenses there are, it is a relatively harmless substance. Seems ridiculous that there could ever be a full season suspension for any marijuana related crime, really. (Except for maybe mass distribution)

Oh it is. Agreed on that. Just can't stand when people bring up the "Well this rule does X amount of games and this rule does X amount". Especially when the NFL did not even punish Adrian (yet, as in he may be punished later). This was the Vikings doing, deactivating their player. Would just make sense to wait and see what the punishment actually is before complaining.

But the team has punished him so they can now defer it to next year.

Got to get Touchdown's in the red zone.

Can and will are two different things.

Peterson now facing another child abuse allegation for another son he has with that one involving him beating the kid in the head.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/11...use-accusation

Stop losing yards in the Red zone. So frustrating.

Adrian Peterson needs to do 2 things.

1) Stop beating his kids.
2) Stop having children.

Then his problems will be solved

That was a really nice interception.

That was awesome.

The media just isn't going to let this go. They smell blood. They are going to rip and tear at it until it explodes. Somehow Adrian Peterson's attorneys and PR people have prevented this from destroying him thus far but Ray Rice is only going to be a story for another week or so and they are going to need somebody else to hang. Probably not looking good.

Don't beat your kids, y'all.

until next week when we find out andrew luck eats babies while they are still in the womb

It'd be a different story if AP denied and ran from authorities. he did admit to going a little too old school on his son's ass. I think he should have to serve some punishment though. Especially in a world where discipline is gone and everyone is righteous.

<font color=goldenrod>Peterson has been put on the exempt list and is now barred from all team activities until his legal issues have been resolved.</font>

The big winners in all this are the people tired of hearing about Johnny Manziel

Manziel has to be pissed theres no way he can be considered a "bad boy" now