Posted on 09/08/2014 7:15:28 PM PDT by tobyhill
The Ray Rice story isn't close to being over.
Although the Baltimore Ravens released Rice and the NFL suspended him indefinitely following the release of the bombshell video of Rice striking his wife in an Atlantic City hotel elevator, TMZ claims it has more to the story, via Philly.com.
TMZ's Harvey Levin appeared on Fox5 Philly and said that he plans to release information that the NFL knew about and saw the Rice video (which the league has denied) but that it ignored it.
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That's up to the employer. If I own a plumbing business and I find that one of my employees did what Ray Rice did... 'You're fired!'
Goodell had to know before today. All those high-powered attorneys that work for the NFL, and they didn’t file a public records request?
I guess you don’t need to if you have already seen the video.
Goodell might as well start packing his bags; he’s a goner.
The NFL has got to the point that there is no difference between a prison yard and a football team...
I didn’t say she was fine. Were any tests done for a concussion?
Actually they gave him a big ovation at practice the other day.
If the NFL knew of or had this video, it’s going to pretty difficult to deny Rice his money for the full season.
So you think it’s okay to hit a woman so hard that it knocks her out because she slaps you? He’s a big tough football player. Surely he can take a few swats from a woman.
Anyone who supports Rice after seeing that video is no different from lefties supporting Obama after the facts are right in front of them.
I think once someone gets knocked out, that constitutes a concussion. He admitted to knocking her out so there’s no dispute there.
Bet those investigators are crawling all over TMZ and their people tonight trying to stop the release or find out what it is about.
Day-um!
Who does Goodell think he is; Barack Obama?
They were hoping it would turn up missing after all the money they spent in making that happen.
I think once someone gets knocked out, that constitutes a concussion
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That’s what I think, too. And that’s why I want to know if she was tested. I also want to know because she was hitting him, too, and she was charging him when she was hit. Rice isn’t a doctor, and anybody can fake being unconscious.
The way she bounced off the wall, it’s unquestionable that she had a concussion.
The way she bounced off the wall, it’s unquestionable that she had a concussion.
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Is that some kind of new medical test? Is it admissible in court as proof of a concussion?
I’m going to express a contrarian view.
First I’ll be compelled to say that I have never hit anybody. I’ve been hit more than a half-dozen times. I am pretty much a pacifist, and turn the other cheek kind of guy.
That said — we pay people money and turn on our TV to watch as two men beat each other often until one has blacked out. The excuse is, they both understand the arrangement, and are willing to risk being knocked out for the benefits they receive — in this case, getting paid money.
So, why is it unacceptable that a woman, OR a man, might CHOOSE to get hit sometime, for the benefit of a relationship? I mean, I wouldn’t call that a relationship, but who am I to judge? That woman, having been married to a star football player, was essentially making millions of dollars. I bet she got more money for that punch than the typical UFC fighter.
Now, if she filed charges, I’d be right there calling for him to go to jail. Even though it looks like she hit him first, and was actually running back at him when he hit her.
But she didn’t file charges, she didn’t ask for him to be punished, she MARRIED him.
Now she’s screwed, because the guy she got married to, and has a kid by, just went from being a millionaire to being an unemployed and possibly unemployable drain. She is being punished as much as he is. Does that make any sense?
I’ll say one more thing — if you fired every player in the league who ever punched out another person in anger, I bet you’d lose HALF the league.
Of course, I know that they would care less if some guy punched him in an elevator and he responded by putting the guy’s light’s out. And that this is all about keeping the feminists from sending the politicians after the NFL’s sweetheart deals with various governments.
The video of him dragging his fiance out of the elevator looked pretty bad.
If there was this additional video back then, why was it not released? If TMZ had the video back then, they certainly would have released it. There was no advantage to anybody who wanted to make money on this to wait until now to release the video.
It is hard to imagine that if the NFL had seen this video, that they could actually believe it would never be public.
Do you seriously believe executives at that level could be stupid enough to think that nobody would want to get this video out to the public?
And therefore, it also seems absurd that they would have SEEN this video, and then made the statements they made, knowing that the video would EVENTUALLY be released.
Now, I COULD believe that someone IN the NFL could have seen the video, and decided to try to bury it, and keep it from the other NFL execs making a decision. They may want to get those execs in trouble, or have other motive.
As I said in a later post — it doesn’t justify what he did, but people do actual “sport” where they get knocked out, for a LOT less money than she got.
Punishing him this way essentially says to her “you are too stupid to know what is best for you”.
I would have thought they’d suspend him indefinitely and force him into anger management. There has to be a way for him to get back into the league, or else you are essentially destroying a person for one bad act of judgment.
If he is shown to do this again, then fire him.
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