09-09-2014, 06:44 AM
cyclemax wrote:
[quote=artie67]
Mr. Rice will be in a courtroom soon.
He already had his day in court. He was charged with felony aggravated assault in the case, but in May he was accepted into a pretrial intervention program that allowed him to avoid jail time and could lead to the charge being purged from his record. The Police had copies of the linked video. And, the woman married him after all this happened.
Yep. Not to defend Ray Rice, it was pretty abhorrent to strike a human being with enough force to knock them out cold, but why is it okay she hit him first? I wonder if he had called the police and filed a report if anything would have happened? Maybe he should have. It would have been better for both Mr and Mrs Rice than the awfulness of the elevator incident.
How can the NFL suspend Rice two games and then suspend him more for the same incident? Seems self serving. The NFL should be ashamed and I hope the union appeals and wins the case as it will rub it in just how the NFL is run by a bunch of self serving jerks. The NFL desperately wanted the case to go away, suspended Rice two games (never mind dude in Cleveland is out for an entire year for partaking in recreational marijuana, oh the hypocrisy!!!), and now are look like a bunch of dopes for the initial penalty. Which of course prompts the not so surprising overreaction.
Ravens also look pretty stupid right now, but the cynical side of me thinks if Rice had not been a washed up running back making major bank (hence the benefit of voiding his contract), they would have kept him around to come back after the suspension. Didn't they just post a blurb on the official team site about how Rice was a great guy?
Oh, what a mess.