“Does not make sense. If the League kept this video in their back pocket, then they were idiots period.”
I simply posed a question. ;-)
However, one often wonders about what goes on in the smokey back rooms. ;-)
The NFL is in a bad PR position either way. If they ignored the elevator video, the investigation process is awful and if they saw the video during the investigation then a possible cover-up to quickly end the investigation with a multi-game suspension to one of the Raven's key offensive player/hide visual evidence to protect the league's image (Although the events speak for themselves).
The media has done a great disservice by displaying a harsher reaction when the video was released 7 months after the event compared to the *actual* event which took place back in February.Societies thought process is 180 degrees out of phase due to visceral reactions and not analyzing the actual crime. In an age of CGI and editing techniques, this conditioning can lead to all kinds of havoc.