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I won’t be surprised if some team signs him if they think he can get them into the playoffs or to a Super Bowl. Ca$h is King.
Michael Vick has a job and a lot of folks care more about animals than people.
Much ink will be spread and rants will abound.
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I eagerly await the opportunity to watch a wife beater play football again.
Not.
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Forced to make a hypothetical choice between a spouse/partner/girlfriend-boyfriend staying or the dog gets to stay I’d say most of the time it won’t be the dog’s ass the door strikes. The devotion people develop for a damned dog borders on the insane.
what rice did is definatly wrong and should be punished in the court of law. But everyone deserves a chance to live a a productive life and a chance to redeem themselves by walking straight from there on.
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Anyone expect any different from the National Felons League?
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Yeah, he’ll never, ever hit a woman again.
My IRA against yours, he ever relapses I collect. On?
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He should have been suspended a year from the get-go. However, this ruling is correct, given what happened.
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Now which team will hire this wife-beater?
You are saying then that it’s OK to smack the living crap out of your girlfriend now spouse? And all you get is a year suspension.?
For me (and I’m speaking only for me, you are welcome to your opinion) someone who beats a woman and then pulls her out of the elevator like she’s no more than a sack of potatoes should be in jail for that year if not longer. That was an assault. And I saw no attempt at any sort of “Oops I did bad…are you OK honey?” behavior. Take a look at the video of that beating and see if I’m wrong.
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According to the bigots, it is gays who are “defiling the sacred institution of marriage.”
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I don’t think that’s what he said.
Reads to me that the ORIGINAL penalty was way too light, and the arbitrary second penalty applied was merely in response to the fact that the NFL and Goodell expected to be able to brush yet another incident under the rug without any pushback. When the pushback continued and Harvey Levin showed Goodell his own ass, instead of Goodell admitting they not only completely screwed up but also intended for you - the public - never to know just HOW BAD they screwed up, is when he pulled this “new” suspension out of his ass to save his neck.
I’m a woman and highly offended and angry about what Ray Rice did. But you can’t arbitrarily apply both penalty, nor judgement, without proper parameters. Which is exactly what Goodell did. Because he’s a dope.
A direct quote from Chris Kluwe, who knows a little something about the NFL and the arbitrary bullshit they pull:
He’s right. Today wasn’t about the act, it was about the labor issue and Goodell’s piss-poor handling of the whole affair.
You can certainly look at what happened today from the position of righting the wrong of the arbitrary application of the second penalty WITHOUT condoning the original activity for which it was applied.
Ray Rice is still an abuser. Ray Rice still assaulted his fiancé-now wife. The NFL still sucks at addressing these issues, and Roger Goodell should still be fired without delay. But the judge’s decision today was the correct one in terms of the law around the second penalty.
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Even if he’s immediately eligible, I would be surprised if anyone stepped up to sign him anytime soon. PR poison.
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Clearly you’ve never had a dog or you would not be posting an uninformed statement on the human and dog relationship. Dog owners do become devoted to a dog because they are loving, guiless creatures who return love without conditions, provide faithful companionship and wouldn’t knock you out in an elevator. Give me a dog (or give me my late dog back) over a football player anyday.
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Wishin’ and hopin’.
P.S, Nice to see you back.
Frankly, I never understood how society expects a for-profit money-grubbing enterprise to divest itself of a money-making personality to impose a punishment on that personality because the criminal justice system won’t do so, presumably because of their status as a personality.
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It’s a big problem when an employer chooses to do the punishing for a criminal act. Yes, Rice is a beating ass, but some employer will take it upon itself to fire some one accused of a crime because of the precedent the NFL set with Rice. And that’s far worse than letting a fiancee-beater slam into other men.
It’s justice for honest domestic abuse. Hallelujah!
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Finally violence is dragged out of the elevator and back on the football field where it belongs.
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Yikes! An individual who gets his knickers in a knot about human beings’ devotion to dogs is probably missing a few nuts and bolds somewhere in the vicinity of where his heart should be but isn’t.