You don’t know what you’re talking about. There is EVERY guarantee my wife would react as I’ve described. If she didn’t, the first time my father-in-law saw her with a black eye, HE’D call the cops, if he didn’t try to kill me himself.
This thread isn’t about your wife astorian, get out.
The mistake you’re making here is assuming that abuse starts with a raised fist. It starts with a long process of slowly and subtly undermining your partner’s confidence and self-worth, until you’ve convinced them that they deserve to be beaten.
That’s why abusers whose partners come from good families learn to hit where it doesn’t show.
“When Ravens running Ray Rice exited the tunnel and was introduced to the home crowd, he drew a standing ovation. There were no audible boos, if any existed, for the three-time Pro Bowl runner following a rocky offseason where he was arrested for felony aggravated assault that led to a two-game NFL suspension for violating the NFL personal-conduct policy.”
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you: Ravens fans.
I’m a Ravens fan who is seriously considering giving up football altogether because of this (and other) incidents.
I’d be willing to bet that there’s barely a fanbase in the league (especially among the diehards who go to training sessions and pre-season games) that wouldn’t have done the same thing as the Ravens fans did last night. Unfortunately, the NFL, like most incredibly popular things in the United States, counts among its fans millions of morons.
If you want to engage in team-based pissing contests, go start your own thread.
I’m inclined to agree, and despite the obvious echoes of Ray Lewis in the case of the Ravens, I can’t entirely rule out the possibility that this kind of response would happen in another sport.
It was the unanimity of the cheering that was most telling to me. Of course, every team has complete morons who are going to support someone who helped people get away with murder or beat their wife unconscious. But a standing ovation? Without boos? That tells me it’s not just a few morons, it’s a pandemic of stupidity.
It’s not exactly a representative sample of Ravens fans, though - fans who are upset about the way the league and the team handled everything aren’t likely to shell out $60/ticket for a preseason game just for the privilege of booing in person.
Something that pisses me off more than any number of idiot fans is the way that ESPN is going out of its way to rehabilitate the guy. The way they have their collective tongue up his ass, i won’t be surprised if they nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Before last night’s game, of all the Ravens they could have chosen to interview, Sal Paolantonio interviewed Ray Rice, and asked him, among other things, “What did your wife say to you in final words of encouragement before you took the field?” Is he fucking kidding with this?
Who’s saying they should buy tickets to boo? The problem here is that the people who did shell out for these tickets cheered.
Everyone see the prequel that came out yesterday?
He pounded her pretty much unprovoked. Then he dragged her around like a bag of yard clippings. I don’t know how his teammates can look him in the eye after this.
I can’t imagine that Goodell saw this whole tape and still only suspended this douche for 2 games.
And what’s wrong with this chick going on to marry him? $$ $$ $$?
Yeah, the new video evidence made things even worse. Rice’s attempts to look contrite and remorseful already looked feeble, but they look even more pathetic now.
This is NOT a guy who just lost his temper for a minute. He’s a genuinely vicious and sadistic creep.
And yet she married him anyway. Sigh…
I read that the NFL has already released a statement this morning that they had never seen this video before today.
And there are some high-placed reporters (as in firmly in the NFL’s information feed, if not pocket) who dispute that …
I’m really struggling with whether to continue following the NFL (and I’ve been struggling for several years before this, based on the NFL’s actions or inactions on a number of other issues). I’m not at all certain that even a potential release of Rice by the Ravens, or (and this is a loooong stretch) Goodell resignation will change my perception. Yesterday’s Bronco game may very well have been my last.
I know they won’t miss me, but my conscience sure will feel better.
I think it was on ESPN maybe but the Ravens are saying that they never saw the video before today but that what they saw is exactly what RR described to them.
I do want to point out that he hit her with his left hand. Is he left handed? If so that explains why he’s so messed up.
And now King says that the NFL (says that it) didn’t actually see the tape. King notes, significantly, that no one from the NFL ever disputed his reporting that the league had seen the footage.
This is getting stinkier and stinkier: the league’s mouthpiece’s, like King and Adam Schefter, cannot be pleased about what this has done to their (perceived) journalistic reputation, and the NFL/Goodell/Ravens/Rice have got to be reeling.
I didn’t watch a single game this weekend. I dropped out of all my fantasy leagues before the start of the season. I miss football, but the NFL will need to reform itself considerably to regain my support.
I’m not sure i understand how the video could be a factor in the short suspension.
What he means, i think, is that King, at the time, had understood that the NFL had seen it, and that the NFL had argued to King that it showed that the whole thing wasn’t as bad as expected, and therefore Rice deserved a short suspension.
As Deadspin points out, one of the really interesting outcomes of all this is how willing the NFL has been to lie to a whole bunch of reporters about the issue. It seems that either they lied at the time, and had not actually seen the video before issuing the short suspension, or they had seen it, gave a short suspension despite how bad it is, and are lying now when they say that they hadn’t seen it before.
At least, that’s my understanding based on a quick reading of the story.