Lewis said in a comment last week that he was mentoring Ray Rice. I almost blew my cola out my nose.
If I enjoyed professional sports, I would not have been able to get rid of television in 1997...
Kind of like Whoopi Goldberg and her “rape-rape” nonsense.
The NFL has become a circus with the game itself being reduced to a sideshow. I’m done with this sordid spectacle.
“Will ESPN hire O.J. Simpson when he gets out of prison?”
Can they mike him up from the inside? They’ve probably already looked into it.
It is annoying and tiresome to hear the hypocritical rants of these sports and network commentators. They are making a huge amount of money off these young men who are employed to perform violent acts and take punishment. Why would any rational person be shocked, just shocked, that they would also be violent in their private lives. These phonies are vying for the “Most Politically Correct Hypocrite” award.
I finally watched the videos.
Too low-res and blurred to be sure, but I’m not sure he punched her at all. She attacked him soon after they got in the elevator, he backed up, she pursued and made another try at hitting him.
Then he swung at her. When he did, her head and body jerked violently to the left, not back, as one would expect from a punch.
I suppose he could have thrown a roundhouse punch that caught her on the side of the head, creating the movement shown, but it looks more consistent to me with a solid slap rather than a punch. It’s notable that there’s no blood to be seen in the aftermath, on the floor or on either of their clothes. A solid punch from a guy this big and I’d expect some bleeding.
It also looks like she may have hit her head on the steel rail after being slapped/punched.
I also find it more than a little bizarre that nobody is commenting on the obvious fact that SHE started the domestic violence and HE ended it. This is simply not an example of the stereotypical notion of “domestic violence,” where the evil man corners the helpless and utterly innocent woman and beats the snot out of her with sadistic glee.
Case in point, Skip Bayless, the most clueless analyst on TV, was criticizing the Dallas Mavericks defense. Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban, was on the show. He asked Bayless what defensive scheme Dallas was playing that he had a problem with. Bayless could not name it. Cuban then took the next few minutes to school/insult Bayless on the finer points of the Dallas defensive scheme.
Murder Trial
Following a Super Bowl XXXIV party in Atlanta on January 31, 2000, a fight broke out between Lewis and his companions and another group of people, resulting in the stabbing deaths of Jacinth Baker and Richard Lollar. Lewis and two companions, Reginald Oakley and Joseph Sweeting, were questioned by Atlanta police, and 11 days later the three men were indicted on murder and aggravated-assault charges. The fight occurred about 200 yards from the Cobalt Lounge at 265 East Paces Ferry Road in the Buckhead Village neighborhood about two miles north of downtown Atlanta where Lewis had been celebrating.[41][42] The white suit Lewis was wearing the night of the killings has never been found. Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard alleged the blood-stained suit was dumped in a garbage bin outside a fast food restaurant.[43] A knife found at the scene did not have any fingerprints or DNA. Lewis subsequently testified that Oakley and Sweeting had bought knives earlier in Super Bowl week from a Sports Authority where Lewis had been signing autographs.[42][44] Baker's blood was found inside of Lewis's limousine.[45]
Two weeks into the trial Lewis's attorneys, Don Samuel and Ed Garland, negotiated a plea agreement with the District Attorney where the murder charges against Lewis were dismissed in exchange for his testimony against Oakley and Sweeting,[46] and his guilty plea to a misdemeanor charge of obstruction of justice.[12] Lewis admitted he gave a misleading statement to police on the morning after the killings (initially telling them that he was not at the scene).[47] Superior Court Judge Alice D. Bonner sentenced Lewis to 12 months' probation. One year in prison is the maximum sentence for a first-time offender,[48] and the immediate probation was the judge's decision. He was also fined $250,000 by the NFL, which was believed to be the highest fine levied against an NFL player for an infraction not involving substance abuse.[49] Under the terms of the sentence, Lewis could not use drugs or alcohol during the duration of the probation.
Oakley and Sweeting were acquitted of the charges in June 2000.[50][51] No other suspects have ever been arrested for the crime.
The following year, Lewis was named Super Bowl XXXV MVP. However, the signature phrase "I'm going to Disney World!" was given instead to quarterback Trent Dilfer.[4]
On April 29, 2004, Lewis reached a settlement with four-year-old India Lollar, born months after the death of her father Richard, pre-empting a scheduled civil proceeding. Lewis also reached an undisclosed settlement with Baker's family.[50]
During a taped pre-game interview with Shannon Sharpe that aired on CBS before Super Bowl XLVII, Sharpe told Lewis that the families of the slain men find it difficult to see Lewis be idolized by millions of fans, believing he knows more about the killings than he shared.[52] “What would you like to say to the families?” Sharpe asked. Lewis said: "God has never made a mistake. That’s just who He is, you see.... To the family, if you knew, if you really knew the way God works, He don’t use people who commits anything like that for His glory.”[53]
Really? They brought out Ray Lewis?!?
Reminds me of Ted Kennedy during the Clarence Thomas hearings.
Correct. The lives that were lost meant nothing to the NFL or ESPN. One would have to think logically and responsibly and kick Lewis out of the league.
Hell I can’t root for the jets cause they picked up the dog killer.
I don’t care if he did his time.
I excoriated him initially but, after viewing the full video yesterday I dunno.
Seems she backhanded him before getting on the elevator and who knows what she did before that. She then appears to advance on him, in that cage called an elevator and the result was her getting laid out.
Not ready to call it self defense but, it appears to be a reaction on his part to end her aggression.
It could be argued that he could have restrained her but, who knows what would have been the result of getting into a tussle with a woman, hell bent on dominating a clearly superior opponent.
Some people just go full tilt and she could have received more injuries as he “thoughtfully” tried to control an unthinking and out of control, mentally deranged person.
Flame away...
If these guys break the law they should go through the criminal justice system like anyone else. If their character is such that a team doesn’t want to hire them then so be it, and if a team wants to take a chance so be it.. It shouldn’t be up to a few empty suits in the “Almighty NFL” league office. The empty suits have made a mockery with allowing the officials to ruin games with their outrageous penalties. Fans are interested in watching great players play football. If ESPN thinks they need a thug like Ray Lewis, to make money, so be it, folks can tune him out if they choose.
Let the cops handle it...keep the damned NFL out of it...next they will start recommending school lunches.
Who do you email at ESPN?
The NFL should not have needed to see the video. Rice told the NFL what happened and they tried to brush it under the rug with a two game suspension. Ray Rice was not fired for beating the crap out of his woman, he was fired because we all saw a video of him beating the crap out of his woman. I am boycotting the NFL until such a time when Commissioner of the NFL, Roger Goodell, resigns.