[Bidimus1]

did you mean mea culpa, when you wrote auto de fe ?

[FredZarguna]

Nope. A mea culpa doesn't really have to be -- and quite often isn't -- a public act, and at the point where the NFL suspends him it's not interested in his admitting to it; he's regarded as guilty if he admits to it or not.

Auto-da-fé: "the ritual of public penance of condemned heretics," is more appropriate. He's already condemned once the NFL suspends him. The Auto-da-fé is performed to avoid harsher punishment. [You're still going to be burned, but you're saving your soul through the public admission.]