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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 12, 2014 -> 08:18 PM)
He will be allowed to play again. Will anyone sign him will be the question.

 

I guess the Vick thing showed anything is possible. I think it'd be very unwise for an owner/GM to employ Ray Rice. I say no team will be dumb enough to sign a person like Ray Rice.

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QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 12, 2014 -> 03:24 PM)
I guess the Vick thing showed anything is possible. I think it'd be very unwise for an owner/GM to employ Ray Rice. I say no team will be dumb enough to sign a person like Ray Rice.

 

I say you very much underestimate teams. There are many players in the NFL that have been arrested for domestic violence, and many of them continue to play

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/break....html?track=rss

 

ormer Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice will appeal his indefinite suspension, but reportedly is asking for commissioner Roger Goodell to recuse himself from the review.

 

Goodell, who said Rice's version of events was "ambiguous" when the parties met prior to an initial suspension, turned over the New Orleans Saints bounty-related suspensions to former commissioner Paul Tagliabue.

 

The league reversed course banned Rice indefinitely last week, the same day the Ravens released Rice as video surfaced showing him punching and knocking out his then-fiancee, Janay, in February at an Atlantic City hotel. Janay Rice blasted media for releasing the video. She and Rice were married and have actively engaged in counseling, Ray Rice told media in May.

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I guess this fits best in this thread.

A former NFL executive said teams did not discipline players in "hundreds and hundreds" of domestic violence incidents during his 30 years in the league, and said he now regrets his role in the failure to take action.

 

"I made a mistake,'' Jerry Angelo told USA TODAY Sports. "I was human. I was part of it. I'm not proud of it.''

 

Angelo, who was general manager of the Chicago Bears from 2001 to 2011 and has been out of the league since, said his typical approach after learning of a player's involvement in a domestic violence case was to inquire, "OK, is everybody OK? Yeah. How are they doing? Good. And then we'd just move on. We'd move on.''

 

"We knew it was wrong,'' Angelo said. "…For whatever reason, it just kind of got glossed over. I'm no psychiatrist, so I can't really get into what that part of it is. I'm just telling you how I was. I've got to look at myself first. And I was part of that, but I didn't stand alone.''

 

The Bears released a statement later Thursday denying any knowledge of Angelo's assertions. "We were surprised by Jerry's comments and do not know what he is referring to," the statement read.

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If the NFL had any understanding or handle of the situation, I don't think people would much care if the response was "We used to think that domestic violence issues were a private matter left to the police, now we understand our position in American culture and as role models and are dedicated to leading the charge against domestic violence" ...

 

but because I'm not sure the NFL really understands what wrong is, they'll probably just try to cover it up and make it worse.

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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 10, 2014 -> 07:28 AM)
I will at least say good for Angelo for coming clean. That being said, he will never work in professional football again after what he just said.

Is this really news though? I mean, isn't this what we already knew? We knew there were hundreds of incidences of this, and we knew they weren't getting suspended for it...so he's just verbalizing what the numbers would show was happening.

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QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 10, 2014 -> 07:35 AM)
If the NFL had any understanding or handle of the situation, I don't think people would much care if the response was "We used to think that domestic violence issues were a private matter left to the police, now we understand our position in American culture and as role models and are dedicated to leading the charge against domestic violence" ...

 

but because I'm not sure the NFL really understands what wrong is, they'll probably just try to cover it up and make it worse.

Yeah, that is clearly something that shows their understanding is evolving. I agree. There has got to be some other concern on their part though. I refuse to believe they aren't wise enough to say something as obvious as that, in this day and age of damage control. My guess is they are concerned about the data they already have and the effect on their players and League if they make certain statements like this and what it means for them moving forward.

 

Bottom line is, there is so much domestic violence and other stupid criminality occurring by players and other NFL employees that I am not sure they really can be leading the charge all the time. That consumes a lot of resources.

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QUOTE (iamshack @ Oct 10, 2014 -> 09:36 AM)
Is this really news though? I mean, isn't this what we already knew? We knew there were hundreds of incidences of this, and we knew they weren't getting suspended for it...so he's just verbalizing what the numbers would show was happening.

 

It is news because he has been the only member of management I have seen from the NFL who has been honest about what happened in the past. Everyone else is either pretending it didn't happen, or that NOW THEY ARE GOING TO BE TOUGH!

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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 10, 2014 -> 09:40 AM)
It is news because he has been the only member of management I have seen from the NFL who has been honest about what happened in the past. Everyone else is either pretending it didn't happen, or that NOW THEY ARE GOING TO BE TOUGH!

Yeah, an actual admission is different from "what we all know"

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