Posted on 07/29/2014 2:16:44 PM PDT by Vigilanteman
Baltimore Ravens fans gave running back Ray Rice a standing ovation as he jogged onto the field during training camp practice on Monday, according to the team's website.
Rice acknowledged the cheering fans by pointing to the crowd.
Rice was seen on video in February dragging his then-fiancée out of an Atlantic City casino elevator. He was charged with third-degree aggravated assault after Janay Palmer, whom he later married, was left unconscious following the incident. Rice agreed to enter into a diversion program to avoid a jail sentence.
More: Lenient penalty for Ray Rice troubling proof of where NFL's priorities lie
The NFL suspended Rice for two games without pay due to the incident, sparking debate as to whether the punishment was too lenient.
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Indeed, if it turns out she initiated the violence, will she be suspended from her job without pay for two weeks? Will others on this thread be as quick to refer to her as a thug?
Its not like he asked her not to hang around with black guys or anything.
I cannot think of any reasonable scenario where it is acceptable to hit a woman.
I’d rent a snow making machine if she would shovel my walk.
I'm pretty sure they have it bassackwards as usual. The laws of entropy pretty much have a slam dunk on the evolution belief system.
It’s better than. It’s the only sport, of the big 5, where it is acceptable for two men to settle things with fistacuffs.
I live near Baltimore and work in the city. I refuse to bow to the altar of the Raven. When my office has a football season opening lunch, they say to wear your favorite team colors. I wear a NASCAR shirt.
I was given tickets to a ravens game. My son and I were about the only ones not in purple. It felt good.
Oh I can. They fall under the category of self defense. Meanwhile though we don’t actually KNOW that Rice hit anybody, we’re pretty sure he probably did, but we don’t KNOW. On the short list of things we do know is that the fiance is now the wife and the DA thinks his record should be expunged, and he’s still suspended for 1/8 with further fines eating up another good chunk of his salary. Which is a lot of punishment for doing nobody is quite sure what exactly.
Really? Given how many women kill their children, would shooting them be OK? /half-joking
How about in self defense against something like this?
The light red (barely Commie) county in the center is Centre, home to Penn State.
Yeah, Balto is a hell hole, but I think you're forgetting a few of your own infamous players - Roethlisberger, Holmes, Harrison, Burress, Davenport, Seigler, and so on. It's an American cultural problem which certainly isn't limited to one city. Steeler fans come to Balto and behave in abhorrent fashion. I've seen it far too often. Yeah, Baltimore and their fans have a lot of problems, and I get it that Steeler fans hate the Ravens, but you're throwing stones from a glass house.
If he were white he’d been booed off the field. But, as usual there is a different standard for blacks. Think ‘OJ in the White Bronco’.
Exactly. SHE had been previously arrested for domestic assault. My guess is that she started it and he finished it.
LOL!
The ghetto culture taking over most sports is why I can no longer stand to watch them. I’m down to golf.
Used to enjoy football. But that was before the players were all gangstas, the fans were all trash, and the sports media were all faggots.
Well, there’s always http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxhqXzVBen4
Or the fastest game on grass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmzivRetelE
Well, yeah. But Pittsburgh is a Democrat city too!
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