Quote:Here's there problem I have with this. And I'm not talking about you specifically. But I hear a lot of people questioning why did the league needed to see the video before handing out the punishment. But THOSE SAME PEOPLE'S REACTION TO THE INCIDENT CHANGED UPON SEEING THE VIDEO. It's blatantly clear that the outrage now upon seeing the new video is exponentially greater than the outrage when it was first reported. Whether people like to admit it or not, seeing the video made a huge difference. The public has generally accepted NFL's policies on domestic violence for years (mainly because there is a legal system that addresses these things). So with that said, the actual act wasn't a real issue for the NFL. If the new video never came out, the outrage would have never escalated to this point, there wouldn't have been an investigation, Ray Rice would play, nobody would be calling for Goddell's head (any more than usual), and the NFL would have continued business as usual. It's not about domestic violence. It's about the video. Those are the facts.

Certainly seeing him deck her was more impactful than what we imagined, but I almost found the first video, the aftermath, as disturbing. I love football and I hate the sport I love is tarnished by something like this. I hope they just get it figured out and we can go back to worrying about who's starting at QB. No one knows for sure who saw what, but we tend to need proof of that to justify the punishment. I guess I was just thinking it seemed to be enough as it stood. But what do I know.

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