Discussion for article #227893
With reports that the NFL employs ex FBI and Secret Service for its security and “knows everything” about players and their activities and families, I’m wondering if management treated these voyeuristic details as entertainment rather than anything actionable and are equally interested in suppressing this aspect of their inaction?
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I don’t suppose conspiracy and accessory after the fact is enough to make an owner lose his franchise…
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To quote that great intellectual Gomer Pyle----
Surprise, surprise!
From an early age, jocks believe they are entitled elites, the big man on campus belief that is carried with them throughout their lives. That includes the former jock owners of pro teams.
What’s a child abuser or wife beater when their are games to win?
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We are the Marketing Team. The Brand must be protected. Resistance is futile.
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Robert Mueller, formerly the director of the FBI who will be leading the investigation into the handling of the video and the subsequent suspension of Ray Rice, works for the law firm WilmerHale that helped the NFL negotiate a multi-billion dollar deal with DirecTV. That law firm has also represented the owner of the Washington Redskins, Daniel Snyder. The president of the Ravens, Dick Cass, worked for over 30 years at that law firm.
Exoneration for everyone is on the horizon.
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i can’t see why having ex fbi and ex secret service is supposed to fill us with confidence. Anybody remember the old Woody Allen line that he was going to write a nonfiction version of the Warren Report?
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Don’t forget the jock wannabees, the sports reporters.
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The NFL never gave a crap about domestic abuse. They just chalked it up to boys being boys. Now that they are under intense media scrutiny they have to start giving a crap, and pretend that did all along,but it’s obvious they did not.
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What are you talking about? How did the owner commit a crime? The police knew what happened and elected not to charge him with a crime. The team, NFL, media, fans, etc…knew that he punched his wife and they didn’t really care until the video came out and created the fake outrage we see now.
On the playing field, Rice’s and Peterson’s behavior would get him thrown out. Off the field, many so-called pundit gasbags are making excuses for them. Shameful, shameful, shameful. It’s a world gone mad!!
“contains numerous errors, inaccuracies, false assumptions and,
perhaps, misunderstandings.”
That’s just stupid. “Gee, I saw a video where this guy knocked
this woman out cold, but I might have misunderstood what I saw.”
I grew up in an environment where no one ever took responsibility
for anything they did. Consequently, my first response when I goofed
was to come up with an excuse. I was in my 20s before I realized
that the best and most mature thing to do was a mea culpa.
It’s remarkable how much easier it is to deal with folks after I mess
up when I say, “You’re right. I shouldn’t have done that. I’m sorry, now
what can I do to try to make it right.” Not only is it easier, it’s also
quicker. We can move right on rather than dwell on my inadequacies.
The more insipid excuses you make the longer the ordeal is dragged out
and the stupider you look: especially in this info-redundant age
where the truth is almost certain to come out.
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Beginning with (noted thief) Doug Gottlieb and Scott Ferrall, both of who think a lot of this is overblown.
“…a seven-month odyssey…”
No.
A cover-up.
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if you don’t give all the details you know about them its a crime of omission… if several people help by keeping quiet then its conspiracy… do you really think Ray Rice would’ve gotten probation and counseling if the police and DA had seen this video?
helping Ray Rice avoid felony charges could be construed as accessory after the fact…
The Baltimore Ravens engaged in “purposeful misdirection” while the NFL took an “uncharacteristically passive approach” in the investigation of Ray Rice’s domestic violence, according to an explosive report from ESPN’s “Outside the Lines.”
According to the report, a lengthy tick-tock that details the sordid saga from the start seven months ago, Ravens personnel was aware of what the now-infamous elevator surveillance footage showed mere hours after Rice punched his then-fiancee, Janay Palmer, and knocked her unconscious.
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Something is very wrong in our culture if the only way someone that assaults a woman until she is unconscious, (caught on video), gets punished is if the victim presses charges. It should not be acceptable for Ray Rice to keep his job and not face any kind of criminal charges no matter what his victim wife and unethical employers decide.
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If you haven’t done so yet, read the full ESPN report, linked to this article. It’s scathing about the NFL and Ravens subterfuge and Goodell’s cronyism with certain team owners.
It also adds some perspective to the newly unveiled statue of Ray Lewis in front of the Ravens’ stadium.
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Nobody has a duty to tell all they know to the media. They only have a duty to answer questions under oath, and to tell the truth to law enforcement IF they chose to tell them something. But they don’t have to say anything to law enforcement if they don’t want to.
The only crimes here were committed by Ray and Janay for hitting each other. And it doesn’t look like either one of them will be charged for that, since Ray will officially not be charged (as opposed to “not officially be charged”) once he completes in 6-month course which he should be doing soon, and charges against Janay were dropped soon after the incident.
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The Ravens response " What? No Way! We didn’t know anything"