If he would've come out immediately after the incident and offered to quit football while he sought professional help, maybe.
But since he let it play out the way it did, no.
Let Rice sign with the Redskins. Then the media can have two names to refuse to mention.
Since there’s a difference between transgressions caught on video and those that are not (the latter becoming a scarce commodity), there needs to be two different schedules of punishment. After all, to many of the near brain dead in our celebrity culture, if it’s not recorded, it didn’t happen.
Maybe Rice should announce a run for public office as a Dem so the liberals in the sports media (about 98% of the total) would turn their current scorn into adoring support. Maybe float the idea that his wife is a Republican who had just uttered some political heresy and deserved a thwacking - then the sports media would immediately get on board.
The FBI compiles all sorts of data by race. Why not urge them to set up a task force to keep a scorecard on NFL wife beating. Maybe merge it with a new fantasy football stat category.
Does anyone remember the last time a white player got in trouble for this?
2nd husband made threats against my safety. Numerous & Nasty.
I finally turned to him & told him he better get me with the very first blow.
Why? he asked. I said because he couldn’t stay awake forever and I would beat him to death with a cast iron frying pan the first chance I got.
He looked long & hard at me. Didn’t say a word.
Didn’t get any more verbal threats.
Divorced him after only 15 months of ‘marriage’. Never regretted the divorce, only regretted the marriage in the first place.