IMO - don’t blame the NFL - this is a cultural problem. It is a conditioning process by looking upon women as less than human. Just listen to the words of today’s music, the prevalence of porn.
I’m not accusing the NFL of cultivating a violent culture, as they are getting an end product of a lifetime of cultivation.
But I do hold the NFL responsible for keeping any players who are accused of serious levels of criminal activity and violence.
To be clear, I’m not talking about stuff that a normal person could commit and not have his life being over. A person’s career shouldn’t be over because of a weekend bar fight, where he was defending himself and happened to seriously hurt somebody who attacked him.
I’m talking about the Ray Rice’s, or Ray Lewis’, or the drug dealings, or the rapes, and the other stuff that goes on that would have ended yours or my life as we knew it.