“And now the NFL is the first league to punish a guy for domestic violence and the first league to have codified rules against domestic violence.”
That right there suggests there’s a lot more of this going on than the public knows about. Of course the libs will try to blame it on head injuries, or trot out their specious Superbowl Sunday statistics. But this is a cultural problem infecting pro sports that none dare call by name.
Not really. It’s been known around sports for quite a while that there was a very quiet domestic violence problem, not just for the NFL but the whole industry. Athletes don’t hear a lot of no, and get a bit bristly when they do, especially after a bad day at the “office”. It usually comes out in divorces, and the press rarely if ever bothers to pick. Guy on the radio this morning said there’s 21 NFL teams that have at least one player with a domestic violence charge on his record. Also plenty of NBA teams, NHL teams, and even MLB teams.
By being the first league to have this policy in place the NFL is calling it by name. They really shouldn’t punish the first sports commissioner in America to do that. Yeah it would be nice that he got there without the fits and starts, but he got to the place some people have been complaining sport needs to get to for at least a decade. The people who have been pinging on this issue need to not lose the forest through the trees.