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Ray Rice terminated after newly released video shows NFL star punch fiancee
CNN/TMZ ^ | 9/8/14 | Jill Martin and Steve Almasy

Posted on 09/08/2014 11:49:41 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue

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To: bigdaddy45

I was taught that it was better to marry for love than for money. A loving spouse wouldn’t do what Rice did to her.


41 posted on 09/08/2014 12:34:58 PM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: CincyRichieRich

Throwing a punch is different than possibly throwing a game bet on.


42 posted on 09/08/2014 12:39:49 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: driftdiver

It sounds enticingly axiomatic but the Ravens just disproved it by releasing Rice.

The NFL is full of bad actors; I have no sympathy for either side. However, if business is the watchword then in the Manhattanite bubble of the league office they are, at present, more concerned about cable talking heads on ESPN and elsewhere, especially now that non-sports media will be hurling the usual PC invective. It sounds mad but they will be more concerned with threats of boycotts by groups who don’t even watch the NFL than they will by their current paying customers.

For now, Rice is more of a symbol than a person and will be treated as such. It will come as absolutely no shock if his suspension is increased for PR purposes and it will come as no shock if and when he is signed by a team seeking a running back, with the usual cap-in-hand platitudes mouthed by front office types.


43 posted on 09/08/2014 12:41:25 PM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

lol


44 posted on 09/08/2014 12:46:20 PM PDT by italianquaker
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To: Rodamala; mbarker12474

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45 posted on 09/08/2014 12:46:54 PM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: driftdiver

Employees that bring large quantities of bad press are not your best.


46 posted on 09/08/2014 12:48:19 PM PDT by discostu (We don't leave the ladies crying cause the story's sad.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Remember Bob Costas and his idiotic remarks decrying America’s “gun culture”?

What he should have paid attention to is the NFL’s (and his own network’s) promotion of “thug culture”.


47 posted on 09/08/2014 12:52:44 PM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: TangledUpInBlue
Its getting too PC everywhere. A man can't kick his dog or beat his wife without repercussions anymore. Sarc/
48 posted on 09/08/2014 12:55:41 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: ansel12
It is shocking, he is dragging around his unconscious fiance, like a sack of potatoes.

Ravens tweet:

Janay Rice says she deeply regrets the role that she played the night of the incident.
— Baltimore Ravens (@Ravens) May 23, 2014
49 posted on 09/08/2014 12:56:04 PM PDT by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: ansel12

The NFL probably wished that video was not released, but once it was, they had no choice.

Now they need to do the same to that killer, Josh Brent.


50 posted on 09/08/2014 12:57:51 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Well it appears once she got out of the hospital she married the guy so if she’s happy I’m happy. There is no cure for stupid.


51 posted on 09/08/2014 12:59:41 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

She isn’t going to be married to him much longer, now that the money train has come to a grinding halt.


52 posted on 09/08/2014 1:00:26 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Probably true.


53 posted on 09/08/2014 1:05:17 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: discostu

The NFL doesn’t care that he did it. They only care that it became public.


54 posted on 09/08/2014 1:05:58 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Red Badger

Just go back to the hood and join the rest of he thugs.


55 posted on 09/08/2014 1:06:17 PM PDT by Busko (One thing is certain, nothing is certain.)
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To: iowacornman

Earlier today, ESPN was still trying to cast doubt on the video, saying “we cannot guarantee this video has not been altered”...still pimping for the NFL and Rice


56 posted on 09/08/2014 1:13:39 PM PDT by NOVACPA
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To: TangledUpInBlue
You're Terminated
57 posted on 09/08/2014 1:14:11 PM PDT by TangledUpInBlue (I have no home. I'm the wind.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

The fact that they married after that episode leaves me wondering which one is the bigger fool.


58 posted on 09/08/2014 1:15:19 PM PDT by mrs. a (It's a short life but a merry one...)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Women are serving on the front lines now. They are Marines. They are in submarine crews. There is a UFC champion who’s female.

More than this, marriage ain’t what it used to be. What if the partners here are both male? What if Michael Sam gets caught in an elevator cold cocking his partner and dragging him out of the elevator by his foot? Is it still bad?

So, we’re supposed to get upset over all of this in one sense, and in another pretend its perfectly OK to make 100 lbs females into cops and firefighters?

I’m not saying what Rice did was right. It wasn’t. However, in the age of anything goes, so what? She could enlist in the Marines tomorrow morning and graduate 16 weeks later and join an infantry company.


59 posted on 09/08/2014 1:19:48 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: FamiliarFace
I am wondering why the hell the young lady married him after suffering that! Seriously, doesn’t anyone have any sense about them any more?

Why? Well, the lure of all that $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$, of course.

60 posted on 09/08/2014 1:27:58 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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