NFL IS A JOKE

Video of this thug dragging his unconscious girlfriend out of an elevator led the NFL commissioner to suspend this asshole for 2 lousy games. You get that for an illegal hit in a game. How did the commissioner think she became unconscious? This creep had a $35 million contract, with a $15 million signing bonus.

Now the video of him knocking out his woman has convinced the team and the NFL to finally take action in order to appear tough. Why isn’t this scumbag in a jail cell? The hypocrisy of the NFL is breathtaking. His indefinite suspension will eventually be lifted and some team will pay this piece of shit millions. He will be hiring a public relations firm to rejuvenate his reputation. He will pretend to get counseling, act remorseful, go on The View, make a massive donation to a battered woman’s shelter, and marry his sweatheart.

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Chicago999444
Chicago999444
September 8, 2014 9:25 pm

There is something about team sports and celebrity players that reduces the males of the U.S. (and many other countries) to the same level no matter what their walk of life, race, age, or level of intelligence (or lack thereof) -that of slobbering, panting,screaming, rabidly irrational retards who will forgive absolutely any crime committed by some thuggish dolt of a sports “hero”, even if said hero is only a player on the local championship high school team.

The term “worshipful” or “adoring” is inadequate to describe the emotions that these brainless, pampered, self-entitled louts evoke in so many men. I really wish someone would explain it to me.

I’ve never understood it. I tend to be a little baffled by celebrity worship in anybody over the age of 14 or so, but the obsession with corporate team sports and their loutish, obscenely over-paid players totally eludes me. I mean, I can see why men might feel fanatical loyalty towards the neighborhood buddies who formed the first sports teams of yore, but I cannot for the life of me comprehend the emotional state that sports seems to induce in so many otherwise sensible males. I cannot understand how anybody could be depressed for WEEKS just because the da Bears lost their first game of the season, and I really, really can’t understand why millions of people happily acquiesce to having their pockets picked by these corporate teams and their uber-rich owners, on the price of the tickets, on the junky sports merchandise, or most of all, in our taxes by cities that bend over and pick up the soap everytime a team threatens to leave town if the city doesn’t build it ANOTHER 60,000 seat stadium.

What this guy in this vid did to his girlfriend is rather minor compared to crimes some of these guys commit and walk free of thanks to the sentimentality and brainless sports worship of otherwise rational and sagacious men. I forget the loser’s name, but you all might remember a St Louis Rams player who, about 15 years ago or so, was driving drunk and rammed some woman’s car in the side while driving drunk in that city, and killed her. At his trial for reckless homicide, he was given a suspended sentence by the judge, who didn’t want to “wreck his career”. The son of that slain woman went to college here in Chicago, and was so grief-stricken by the loss of his mother at such an early age that he not only had a huge oil portrait of her in his apt, but kept all her clothes packed away. You see, he was highly intelligent but disabled by Tourette’s, and he had been extremely dependent upon his mother for almost everything. The grief and need of this young man was considered as nothing beside the “career” of a retard sports player by the sports-addled judge.

Stucky
Stucky
September 8, 2014 9:35 pm

He’ll probably play for the Eagles (see Michael Vick).

SSS
SSS
September 8, 2014 9:41 pm

Rice is history. Fired by the Ravens. Indefinite suspension by the NFL.

Millions just went up in smoke. Good riddance, creep.

Do you fucking get it now, shitbag? Do you?

Mark
Mark
September 8, 2014 9:59 pm

It’s too bad that boot hog Valerie Jarrett wasn’t in the elevator with him.

DaveL
DaveL
September 8, 2014 10:00 pm

SSS says…”Rice is history. Fired by the Ravens. Indefinite suspension by the NFL.

Millions just went up in smoke.”

Great. Now the taxpayers will pay $100K a year to take are of his ass in prison.

Jackson
Jackson
September 8, 2014 10:06 pm

Why isn’t this scumbag in a jail cell? That was my first thought. Next was, ‘What are the police and DAs doing about this?’ With the video and a fair or better police investigation, I’d expect a prosecution. It should have occurred earlier; it can still happen. Some DA, probably for political reasons, just washed his hands of this case and probably justified it with, “The victim doesn’t want to prosecute and Rice is being penalized by the NFL.”

In my experience, money, position, influential friends, and power often mitigate consequences. The more of the four one has the less he’s likely to suffer much of the latter.

Tommy
Tommy
September 8, 2014 10:34 pm

I hear the TSA is hiring.

Jackson
Jackson
September 8, 2014 11:59 pm

Copy, then paste this headline, “Culture of blaming the victim is root cause of failure for NFL, Ravens in Ray Rice case,” on a search line and read the accompanying article. Wow! What an indictment of the NFL, its teams, and Roger Goodell. Apparently Ray Rice isn’t the only NFL thug who’s beaten up his precious punching bag and has then been excused. Ray McDonald, Greg Hardy, and Floyd Mayweather apparently are all good at keeping keeping hold of the football, their future, and their girlfriends’ necks. But then who’s going to believe “an erratic young woman” whos beaten body might get in the way of better football if we look more closely at the NFL?

harry p.
harry p.
September 9, 2014 5:57 am

What the fuck do they think happened in the elevator before the video came out, she slipped on a banana peel?
But the batshit crazy women stay with them and even marry them.

If you do anything with nfl footage without the “expressed consent of the NFL” they will get you for a fuckton of money but beat up women and get a slap on the wrist until the in your face camera angle comes out. I wonder what ray rice’s buddy, Rev Ray Lewis thinks about this?

I suspect there are a lot of former players now on tv that would be fired if they gave their true opinion on this.

Stucky
Stucky
September 9, 2014 7:37 am

Chicago999444

I believe it’s as simple as this; men live vicariously through “their” teams or heroes. When “their” team wins a championship, then they too are champions. When Michael Jordan scores 40 points … they scored those 40 points. When their team loses, they are losers … and that’s why so many of them cry after an important game.

BTW, some women act the same way, although the percentages are lower.

Tommy
Tommy
September 9, 2014 9:50 am

I just don’t care – it’s none of my business or the NFL’s. If his employer, the team owner, wants to shit can ’em – fine. Who actually thinks these dickhead gladiators are gentle giants in their private lives? More shit to make you, me, and them stare with amazement while the real story plays out. Yeah he’s a dick, so don’t buy his jersey and sports shit, don’t follow the team, don’t watch or go to the games – if it bothers you let it show, otherwise you’re supporting the very thing you hate.

Anonymous
Anonymous
September 9, 2014 10:50 am

Stucky–do men really cry after their team loses important games? Is this common? I hate to be ignorant, but I’m not a sports fan, and I’ve never heard of this.

Chicago999444
Chicago999444
September 9, 2014 11:27 am

I see a small number of female morons acting this way about the characters in daytime soaps.
These cretins actually think that the characters are real people, and that the actors playing the parts are the characters.

Same thing with other types of shows. Ever meet the “Trekkies” who attend the Star Trek and science fiction conventions? You have to meet these people to believe them. They are so brain-dead that they actually believe that the action on the show really happened, and once asked the handsome bald actor who played the part of the captain for a while, how he liked piloting a spaceship. The actor was incredulous and sputtered, “do you people have LIVES? It’s a TV show, for godsake!”

dc.sunsets
dc.sunsets
September 9, 2014 11:43 am

Living vicariously through the cultural “heroes” of the zeitgeist of the day is hardly new.

I liken it to people tattooing their bodies with trivial bullshit: It helps me to identify the mindless drones, the sad, deluded herd animals whose actions are governed by the hive mind, so I can avoid them whenever possible and keep a wall to my back when they’re around in numbers.

Hive mind people in groups are the most dangerous creatures on Planet Earth. They are the animating power of mob actions, group monkey dances (i.e., the most dangerous social violence that exists) and wars.

Prudent people should never ignore them.

Stucky
Stucky
September 9, 2014 11:51 am

“Stucky–do men really cry after their team loses important games? Is this common?”
———— Anonymous

Absolutely. You didn’t watch the soccer World Cup, did you? MANY tears … especially from Brazilian fans, like this woman.
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Kentucky Wildcat basketball fans are notorious criers … many are suicidal after a big loss.

North Carolina’s COACH, Roy Williams, cries ALL the time. And their fans might be the biggest pussies of all.
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Yeah, happens all the time. Our own Admin hasn’t stopped crying since the Eagles won their last Super Bowl. And that’s a loooong time to be a Weeping Willow.

Stucky
Stucky
September 9, 2014 11:53 am

Brazilian woman in agony
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Stucky
Stucky
September 9, 2014 11:54 am

One more time
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Stucky
Stucky
September 9, 2014 11:59 am

“They are so brain-dead that they actually believe that the action on the show really happened, and once asked the handsome bald actor who played the part of the captain for a while, how he liked piloting a spaceship.” ————- Chicago999444

A parody movie was made about EXACTLY that premise —- Galaxy Quest — and it was very funny.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Quest

Billy
Billy
September 9, 2014 1:36 pm

Hey Stuck,

We have a tendency to take our negro ping pong very seriously down this way…

I haven’t watched a bakka-bawl game in.. I don’t know… I think the last time I watched a game was in the mid-90’s? Haven’t seen a feetsbawl game since Riggins retired.

Pro sports is a sham. Tattooed thugs chasing a round or oblong ball for millions of dollars while dupes pay big bucks to cheer them on…

College sports is equally a sham. Recruiters entice prospects with all sorts of riches so they’ll attend their particular school, then pencil whip their grades so they can concentrate on Oblong Ball or Negro Ping Pong, win a “Champeen Ship” or two, then bail out for the Negro Felon League or Negro Bakkabawl League…

Fuck em all. I’d rather get my teeth drilled than watch any of that crap…

About the article? So some Negro beat his woman. Whoopty shit. This happens EVERY DAY in the ‘hood… the only reason anyone is bitching is because said Negro is a feetsbawl playuh… to understand the concept of “don’t lay hands on a woman”, you have to be human. Negroes don’t qualify, so I don’t hold them to that standard…

Stucky
Stucky
September 9, 2014 4:36 pm

I’m down to two sports, Billy.

IU basketball ….. but the NCAA is a sham organization, and massively corrupt.

NATIONAL soccer (USA, Germany) …. but you would be hard pressed to find a more corrupt organization … in the world …. than FIFA.

“The world” has taken away even what was once enjoyable … a simple game of bb and soccer. Bunch of fucking crap. Well, at least I still have porn.

Llpoh
Llpoh
September 9, 2014 4:57 pm

SSS – Rice is not history. He will be back. Book it, Dano.

If Vick can come back, Rice is a dead cert to come back.

IndenturedServant
IndenturedServant
September 9, 2014 5:24 pm

Chicago, nice rant!

I can honestly say I have never watched an entire NFL football game in my entire life. I was once in a room at RAF Bentwaters in the UK for the entirety of a live broadcast of a Superbowl in the early 90’s but I have no idea who was playing. The only football game I’ve ever watched from start to finsh was a homecoming game at my high school. I’ve never watched an entire basketball game at any level either. Except for a couple of my little brothers Little League games, I’ve never watched an entire baseball game.

I have watched a few arena football games and about two dozen minor league hockey games. In those instances I’m always amazed at the frenzied behavior of so many of the fans. It’s almost like they’re under some kind of mind control. At the pro level I get the impression that the NFL and NBA are composed of mostly criminal thugs.

The only “sport” I was ever into was Nascar. The main attraction for me was speed. I began watching with the first, and now infamous, televised Daytona 500 where Cale, Donnie and Bobby commenced whipping each others asses at the finish. Funny thing is I never had a favorite driver because back then I had met many of the drivers and they were just guys like my dad and his friends. Even Richard Petty was nice guy who took the time to talk to you. Nascar was not commercialized back then and a kid could wander the garage area, meet drivers and even have a crew member show you how to rebuild brakes after a practice session. Drivers like Lennie Pond, Dave Marcus, David Pearson, Benny Parsons and Jody Ridley were just regular guys who had real passion for what they did. Most had to work day jobs to be able to race and I think they were amazed that they even had fans. The closest I ever came to having a favorite driver was Benny Parsons but the main reason I liked him was because of how generous he was off the track. For decades he quietly gave money and his personal time to a bunch of orphans in Ellerbe, NC.

I used to go to Darlington Speedway twice a year for four days and as you got close to the track you would see race cars of famous drivers parked at little “dive” motels in the small towns surrounding Darlington. Their cars would be on open trailers just like you’d see at a local Saturday night dirt track.

I was a fan from 1978 to about 2004 and by then I was just sick of the bullshit tactics the organizers implemented or allowed both on and off the track in pursuit of the almighty dollar. Greed fucking ruined it all.

Econman
Econman
September 9, 2014 5:25 pm

Ray Rice should become a cop.

Then he can get away with beating the shit out of people.

Peaceout
Peaceout
September 9, 2014 5:33 pm

Transcript from Roger Goodell’s office meeting with Ray Rice and his lovely wife Janay prior to his original two game suspension from the NFL.

Goodell: Welcome, thanks for coming in.

Rice: What’s up commish?

Goodell: Ray, I needed to bring you two in today to find out what exactly went down in that Casino elevator?

Rice: Well Commish, it’s like dis, sometimes bitches be crazy, you know what I’m sayin’? And when a bitch be crazy then you gots to knock that bitch out. You feel me?

Goodell: I feel you Ray, I feel you. Janay, what do you say?

Janay: Ray be right, sometimes I be a crazy bitch.

Goodell: Alright you crazy kids I think I’ve heard enough. After minimal consideration how do you feel about a two game suspension? We have to give the people something.

Rice: Sounds good commish, I can deal with that shit but, do I still gets my money?

Goodell: Now Raaaay…….Hey look at the time you guys got time for lunch?

SSS
SSS
September 9, 2014 6:56 pm

“If Vick can come back, Rice is a dead cert to come back.”
—-Llpoh

Vick killed dogs and went to prison. Dogs don’t buy football tickets.

Rice decked his future wife. Women buy football tickets.

End of today’s economic lesson.

Stucky
Stucky
September 9, 2014 7:02 pm

Football games are usually sold out. Tickets are hard to get. 1 woman leaves … 10 others (men and women) will snatch ’em up.

Thus endeth today’s economic lesson.

Chicago999444
Chicago999444
September 9, 2014 7:20 pm

I’ve reached the point where I don’t want to hear a frackin’ WORD about any sports or entertainment celebrity. I don’t want to know who they’re going with, or what they’re wearing, or what their opinions are on any matter, or if they’re having babies. I don’t want to see photo-spreads of their vulgar $100 million houses, or their private jets or yachts or luxury cars. When they die, I do not grieve- after all, they aren’t my mother or best friend. And when some brainless star-fucker of an acquaintance or friend brings one up, I quickly shut them down cold.

TE
TE
September 9, 2014 7:38 pm

@Chicago, what a beautiful rant!

I feel the same way about Apple idiots, or the latest video game idiots, or designer clothes/shoes/accessory idiots.

Apparently today’s modern Christians completely misunderstand the lesson of the golden calf.

These things and institutions are nothing but golden calves.

I cannot believe the money (debt) laid out in support of these “hobbies” while more than half of them save not a dime for their future – or a rainy day.

I used to love sports, I played them, my son played, my brothers even made All State (big deal in Michigan), and I attended and rooted for the pros. Then I woke up.

I worked for a very rich man, who’s father was Real Old Money, and he swore to god that college and above was all rigged to make the rich, richer. That really started to wake me up.

Anyway, thanks for the rant. Truly enjoyed it.

@Jackson, I read this morning that he was prosecuted, and “convicted” of aggravated assault, pled down to lessor charge, issued fine, community service, probation and bullshit anger management classes.

So, no worries, the corrupted organizations that are bleeding us dry through “punishment” all got theirs. Jobs for clerks, judges, probation officers, connected therapists, and cops or bureaucrats to supervise the community service.

Feel better now?

GilbertS
GilbertS
September 9, 2014 10:04 pm

I agree, Chicago, I have never understood the mania that some people feel towards professional sports. It always seemed insanely stupid to me, too. My father once sat me down and explained it as the difference between Field Oriented, or Other Directed people, who essentially derive their sense of satisfaction from submerging their identity into a larger group (the majority of people), and Self-Directed people, who derive their sense of satisfaction from within, from being individuals (the minority). That’s why some/many people can’t function without being in a group, while others accomplish more without a group.

I couldn’t help pointing out that the Unabomber, of all people, pegged this in his Industrial Society and it’s Future.
http://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/howard/Anarchism/Unabom/manifesto.html

“84. Another way in which people satisfy their need for the power process is through surrogate activities. …a surrogate activity is an activity that is directed toward an artificial goal that the individual pursues for the sake of the “fulfillment” that he gets from pursuing the goal, not because he needs to attain the goal itself. …Some people are more “other-directed” than others, and therefore will more readily attach importance to a surrogate activity simply because the people around them treat it as important or because society tells them it is important. That is why some people get very serious about essentially trivial activities such as sports…, whereas others who are more clear-sighted never see these things as anything but the surrogate activities that they are, and consequently never attach enough importance to them to satisfy their need for the power process in that way. ” (He might have been crazy, but the man was educated before he boarded the crazy train.)

It’s kind of sad, really, to watch otherwise normal, somewhat intelligent, well-meaning people submerging their identity into a larger group in order to gain a sense of belonging and accomplishment (in their team) that they otherwise don’t feel in their lives. They make utter fools of themselves in the process and act like complete idiots. Like the US fans at the world cup in Brazil. They were complete morons who spent untold thousands of their own dollars to go act like idiots over what was essentially a bunch of adults playing a children’s schoolyard game. Grown adults acting like morons because some other grown adults can kick a ball and run around for a while.
It’s absolutely pathetic.

GilbertS
GilbertS
September 9, 2014 10:09 pm

Oh, and what a glaring double standard this whole event has been. The way the public have handled this has just been amazingly awful to watch.
OK, children, the lesson here is this: If you are good at sports, you, too, can do whatever you want. “They’re winners and winners get to do whatever they want!” -Ricky Bobby, expert on childcare and racing
The other lesson here is, if you’re a girl, you stick with your abusive man because he makes a lot of money. It remains to be seen if she will divorce him and take her cut, or not. Seeing her actually taking “responsibility” for her part in the affair at an official Ravens press conference was just… sick.

Where are the feminists on this one? This ought to be some real grist for their mill. Perhaps they were too busy watching the game, too?

SSS
SSS
September 9, 2014 10:15 pm

“Football games are usually sold out. Tickets are hard to get. 1 woman leaves … 10 others (men and women) will snatch ‘em up.”
—-Stucky

Stuff it. You don’t know what you’re talking about.

My parents held season tickets to the Redskins for 40 years. My father was a die-hard Philly fan, both baseball and football. Mom doesn’t like baseball, but loves the Skins.

Guess who won? Guess how many times that scenario is played out across America? As fans, women are major players in professional sports.

Ray Rice will NEVER play in the NFL again. Deservedly so. Book it, Dano.

Stucky
Stucky
September 9, 2014 10:23 pm

SSS

You’re probably correct. But I have no faith in what the National Felon League says.

An Anonymous
An Anonymous
September 10, 2014 12:27 am

Well put Gilbert S. What you wrote is exactly how I feel about sports. Although I have a good job and a comfortable life, I crave excitement and meaning in my life. I get both from identification with a few sports teams. I do follow baseball and basketball teams but only tepidly. The reason: those sports allow too much individual action whereas the power of the mass appeals to me. That’s why I like football. In football the men become a team with a uniform purpose and a violent drive. I want to become a cog in a machine or a soldier in an army smashing ahead, crushing, and winning. I identify with that.

I want to brring up something else that I think none of you follow-along commentators have thought about. What’s worse, being verbally abused, hit, or spit on? I’d suggest the latter. People who insult you or strike you are acknowledging your superiority and their inferiority. People who spit see you as inferior and are contemptious of you. Being spit on is a worse insult than being hit and you thoughtless me-too follow-alongs should realize that and judge Ray Rice and his wife accordingly.

Jackson
Jackson
September 10, 2014 12:59 am

A candid comment after having had a few drinks – In vino veritas.
Through the legal system I’ve had some association, over the course of 40 years, with spousal abusers. Most were controlling men. Most got arrested, pled guilty or were convicted, and had jail, counselling, and other consequenes imposed. Though a few may have lost their jobs, now I can’t remember a single one who did.
Ray Rice, I think should be prosecuted, convicted or plead guilty, if he’s guilty (as seems likely from the videos). Rice should suffer the consequences like other spousal abusers.
But why should Ray Rice lose his job? Why should he suffer that consequence when all, or almost all others in his situation, don’t lose their jobs?
For those of you crying for Ray Rice’s head (and job), chronicle the recent domestic abuse cases in your county and tell us how many, if any, defendants have lost their job for their crime.

Llpoh
Llpoh
September 10, 2014 6:24 am

It depends on the stance of the nflpa takes, and the length of jail time he gets, if any. Depriving him permanently of an opportunity to make a living would open up a can of worms.

The Vick comparison does come into play – I suggest the NFL would be hard pressed to bar Rice for life.

The the issue becomes does a team think he can play at 2012 season form. If that is yes, then if Rice expresses proper remorse (what a load of crap), his wife continues to stand by him, etc., then Rice will again grace the fields.

IMHO.

flash
flash
September 10, 2014 8:08 am

so a silly bitch milking a gangsta thug gets knocked out..WTF?

http://www.voxday.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-one-punch-standard.html

The one-punch standard
The football world has been striking poses left, right, and center, pretending that Ray Rice is the Second Coming of OJ Simpson. The Ravens released him and are giving out free jerseys in exchange for his old ones, the ever-sanctimonious Roger Goodell added an indefinite suspension on top of the previous two-game suspension, and various players and commentators are ritually denouncing him.

And for what? A single punch.

This is absolutely and utterly absurd. There are punches thrown in NFL games and practices every single week. If the NFL were to apply the one-punch standard consistently, half the African players would be out of the league by the end of the season.

This is not to say that Ray Rice is a good guy. If you watch the video closely, it looks like he does something to provoke her in some way at the elevator buttons. It almost looks as if he spits at her, she shoves him, he shoves back, and then she charges him and gets KO’d. We’re clearly not dealing with a pair of innocent angels here.

But here is the salient point. He’s not “beating her up”. He’s not abusing her. He’s not attacking her. In fact, the reason she got knocked out isn’t because he’s a big strong man, but because she was rushing at him. What he threw was clearly a defensive punch, and quite likely an instinctive one. I’ve been knocked out in much the same way while sparring, by walking directly into the sort of jab that one normally wouldn’t even feel. Remember, F=MA, so while Rice has a fair amount of Mass, a significant part of the Acceleration that provided the knockout force came from her rushing towards him.

There is a reason the prosecutor saw fit to allow Rice to avoid trial, most likely because there is considerably more than a reasonable doubt involved. One never knows with the inaptly named U.S. “justice” system, but it is highly unlikely that Rice would have been convicted of the one count of third-degree aggravated assault with which he was charged. To call his one-punch KO an assault, or even abuse, is to insult the men and women who are genuinely assaulted and abused. While ignorant people only look at the effect of Mrs. Rice crumpling to the ground, anyone with fighting experience is looking at how she rushed at him, how he retreated to the side of the elevator, and how he didn’t step into the punch or snap his hips. The police appear to have taken notice of these things as well.

“After reviewing surveillance footage it appeared both parties were involved in a physical altercation,” read the Atlantic City Police report.”

Lest you forget, intent matters greatly with regards to the law, and there is absolutely no indication that Ray Rice entered that elevator with any intent to harm his fiance or that he had any intent to do more than keep her off him when she rushed him. In fact, the only party that is seriously harming his fiance, now his wife, is the NFL, as Roger Goodell is depriving her husband of his ability to support her. That will certainly have more long-term negative effects on her than thirty seconds of unconsciousness did.

I see this as nothing more than pink shoes in October. It’s just another aspect of Commissioner Goodell’s clumsy and misguided attempt to market the league to women. Ask yourself this: how many of you, male or female, would still have your job if you were held to the one-punch standard being applied to Ray Rice?

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Mark
Mark
September 10, 2014 8:35 am

Let’s tell it like it is.

His Gold Digger whore girlfriend spat 3 times in Rays face and he knocked the bitch out.

I guess it took Ray that long to figure his girlfriend really didn’t love him ?

Not defending any man striking a women because we are different animals and should know better.
But let’s face it. His wife is a bitch whore who deserved what she got.

donna
donna
September 10, 2014 9:11 am

Mark thats what battered women are told by their abusers -“You deserved it “Sad that any humane being would believe that tripe.

Stucky
Stucky
September 10, 2014 9:16 am

At a time when the term “distraction” somehow has become a bad word in the NFL, Rice presents a distraction that no coach will want to tolerate. It won’t take many players in any given locker room to create a critical mass that makes it impossible to welcome Rice to the team, and few if any teams ever will have few enough dissenters to justify giving Rice a job.

Rice’s shot at redemption becomes undermined in three ways.

— First, Rice apparently lied to the team and the league about what happened in the elevator, creating the apparent impression with the Ravens that a punch wasn’t even thrown.

— Second, the video becomes indelible and undeniable; if video had existed of Mike Vick drowning or electrocuting dogs, for example, it would have been hard for the NFL to give Vick a second chance.

— Third, and most importantly from a football standpoint, Rice plays a position that has more supply than demand. With six years of wear and tear and signs of diminishing skill, teams will opt in all cases for a guy who doesn’t carry a big, nasty pile of baggage into the building.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/09/09/ray-rice-most-likely-is-done-in-the-nfl/

Mark
Mark
September 10, 2014 9:20 am

Donna get with reality. Abusers tend to find each other. I personal don’t think a man should ever hit a women, child , pet or even get close to take photos of wild life.

And if you get too close to a Bisson or Moose and the animal charges at you who’s fault is that?

Both parties here are culpable to a degree . If I’m on a jury in a “civil case” and she tries to sue him. Yes, he’s guilty but what right does she have to his money ?

Go ahead Donna tell us we would love to hear?

Stucky
Stucky
September 10, 2014 9:32 am

@Mark ——- Both people are reprehensible. But I find it hard to agree with you that “she deserved what she got”.

“But why should Ray Rice lose his job?” —- Jackson

Because, like it or not, people who work in the public eye are subject to higher standards … and subject to harsher penalties when those standards are violated. (Except for politicians, the rich, copfuks, etc.)

Llpoh
Llpoh
September 10, 2014 10:39 am

Stuck – you said people who work in the public eye are subject to higher standards.

What utter fucking bullshit. Total load of stinking, smelly, slimy runny corn-laced poo. With all due respect, of course.

How many of those fucks get away with more than the average joe? All of them. Every single fucking one.

Power and money almost always = you skate.

Clinton, skates. Paterno, skates. Crack smoking mayor of DC, skates. Bieber, skates. Etc ad infinitum.

Unless of course they use the N word – then they go down hard.

Those fucks, even if they go down, resurrect better than Jesus did.

flash
flash
September 10, 2014 11:43 am

The NFL is a joke not because it is predominantly a sport played by intellectually challenged gangsta thugs, but because of the retardic fans who upon seeing a touchdown or a tackle for the umpteenth millionth time still jump to their feet in a slobbering fit of unbridled ecstasism as if they themselves just accomplished some great feat never before beheld by the eyes of man.

And Donna, bum rush a man and get pwnd like one …try it some time.

e.g. although the stupid bitch would not have lasted that long with a trained fighter. .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpW2ygr97ZY

TPC
TPC
September 10, 2014 11:49 am

His gal is already publicly forgiving him. They will publicly go into couple’s counseling, he will take anger management classes.

He will be back. He’s too good not to be back.

Llpoh
Llpoh
September 10, 2014 11:52 am

In London. Just finished afternoon tea – how civilized!

Kuwaitis and Saudis everywhere. They totally flaunt minor laws – they park their Ferraris and Rolls and Bentleys anywhere and everywhere. A few grand in fines means jack shit to them. There are 20 year old ragheads driving convoys of million dollar cars around. One was gold plated. It is majorly disturbing that anyone would let their children behave thus, much less actively promote it.

The world is fucked.

We are staying across from an apartment block where the are selling for 35 million pounds – around $65 million. The building is empty year around. Ragheads, russian mafia, and chinks buy them up, and no one lives there. The average Londoner is fucked.

The world is fucked. But then I repeat myself.

Stucky
Stucky
September 10, 2014 12:00 pm

“Stuck – you said people who work in the public eye are subject to higher standards. What utter fucking bullshit.” ————- Llpoh

Are you sitting at a beach getting shitfaced? Did Pocahontas stroke your Tiny Lizard when you wrote that?

You don’t fire one of your married employees is they get a blowjob from Betty Sue in accounting. In fact, you would probably promote him for showing initiative. Blowjobs are not illegal, even if you’re married. But, if a preacher gets a blow job from Betty Sue in the choir, more than likely his ass is gone.

Good Lord, what planet are you vacationing on?

Now, I am saying it is SUPPOSED to work that way. Clearly, it often does not, as your examples have shown.

Football owners are VERY SENSITIVE to what the public says, or wants. Specifically and especially if it involves ticket sales. The owners wouldn’t have fired the Ravens janitor if he beat his wife … no one cares, no one sees the janitor. But Lewis’ actions might have been bad for sales, and it’s certainly bad for the Ravens’ public image …. so, Lewis, the expendable niggah … he be gone.

When are you gonna write about your travels?? I’m tired of waiting.

flash
flash
September 10, 2014 12:09 pm

Loopy, I’m surprised you can even access TBP anywhere in UKanistan. I still say we bombed the wrong country in WWII .How many good Germans did we murder to save a nation of sackless rotten toothed cowardly curs? The Lionheart is spinning in his grave.

but as least Kraftwerk survived the mass murder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g4x82CuNPM

Bullock
Bullock
September 10, 2014 12:16 pm

Fuck football, quit watching that shit several years ago. Only sport I watch anymore is drag racing. Takes a man to sit in a 10000 hp nitro burning car and go 1000 ft in under 4 seconds. And now the women are starting to get real good at it also. And the crowds are not a bunch of drunken morons either. Everyone should experience a NHRA race once before they leave this dump.

GilbertS
GilbertS
September 10, 2014 7:05 pm

I’ll tell you why Rice should lose his job, and every other sports thug who breaks the rules-for the simple fact that they are made out to be role models, for some reason.

I don’t know why, but affaletes are held up as role models for young boys and girls to emulate. The fact many of them are drug addicts, cheat, get into dog fighting, spousal abuse, super-ultra-mega womanizing (i.e. Magic Johnson), act like bullies, start fights, and otherwise act like spoiled children seems to get left out of the equation. When I was a kid in school, our affaletes were expected to wear a shirt and tie on game day and to maintain a gentlemanly appearance and demeanor. They were also expected to keep their grades up and otherwise behave like model citizens. Membership in the Key club, or some other community group was popular, as well. That’s a long way from where we are today with our “professional” affaletes.

As long as we’re going to cling to the myth that they’re role models and examples for others, then we should punish the snot out of them when they screw up. Same goes for celebrities, the wealthy, and politicians for pretty much the same reasons.