Now King has clarified that when he wrote that the league had seen the tape, that was based on a source he trusted saying they assumed the league had seen it. So not only did he not get this from the NFL, the source he did get it from didn’t even present it to him as a fact.
The available evidence would seem to suggest that this statement is, unfortunately, incorrect.
Yeah, **mhendo **-- I read your posts (and Marley23’s) upthread the days you wrote them, and considered writing that I likewise was about done with the NFL. That was before the footage of Lewis actually knocking his fiance unconscious was released.
Enough. I’m out, too (and I know I should have made that decision before I actually saw a woman get punched out by an NFL player).
It’ll have exactly zero effect, but I do plan to write a letter to Goodell about it, and I’ll cc the PR departments of every corporate sponsor from whom I saw advertisements yesterday (and there are puh-lenty).
Wow. That’s why we’ll never see MMA coed matches.
He’s cut:
Yeah, got an update on my phone about that. I can’t decide whether I’m shocked or not. The Ravens would take tons of heat if they kept him, though, that’s for sure.
And now they probably expect people to believe that today was the first time they saw the video of the punch.
Edit:
And if [url=]this story is to be believed, Rice lost the support of his own team-mates today as well:
Hearing now that the Ravens have terminated his contract.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
ETA: Ninja’d
Also suspended from the league indefinitely.
Geez. I have to admit the video is worse than I expected. I incorrectly assumed there were some mitigating circumstances and that was very, very wrong.
The girl apologizing during the press conference for “the part she played in the attack” looks so bad now.
This was absolutely the right thing to do, even if it came far too late.
But am i the only one who would have been curious to see whether another team would have picked him up? It seems that this has blown up so badly that no team would have been willing to touch him with a 40-foot pole, but then again, you never know. It is the NFL, after all. A commenter on Deadspin asked, “How long before Jerry Jones is on the phone?” 
Yeah, that was the first thing i thought when i saw the video: “She actually apologized for her role in this incident?”
Is he in jail? And if so, why he hell not? I don’t follow football but I saw that report on my Facebook feed. Hours later I still feel my eyeballs widen in horror at it.
The self righteousness/hypocracy in these situations is a little nauseating, for sure. (Oakley/Trek in the Lance Armstrong Saga and then the NBA in the Sterling saga)
He was allowed to enter a first-offenders diversion program requiring counseling.
It’s worth noting, too, that the victim refused to testify against him, which can make a conviction in a domestic abuse case very difficult, although i’m not sure if the presence of such damning video evidence could still be used in the absence of the victim’s testimony.
Although the new video evidence is awful, what exactly does it show us that we didn’t already know? Did somebody think that she fainted spontaneously? Of course he knocked her out. We already knew that; we just now have video of it.
Never mind- someone got to it first.
They could have been horsing around, both a bit tipsy, and in a comedy of errors he accidentally clipped her with his elbow. Video proves otherwise.
For me, the video pretty much confirms what i already suspected.
It’s amazing how many people, though, were arguing that she must have done something really bad to provoke it. This wasn’t helped by the awful press conference that inspired this thread, where she took much of the blame upon herself, suggesting that she might have done something to justify the knockout blow. Some people on the internet even speculated, based on this, that she must have been attacking him furiously, and he simply did his best to defend himself.
I hope those people are ashamed of themselves now.