<p>This has picked up to be a great game. You can’t deny the tenacity of Luck. I do not know why Denver did not just run the ball. You’ve been in the league forever Peyton; just kill the clock.</p>
<p>I am pretty sure Pete Carroll was at the flag football tournament today. He was talking to Mike, Duff & a couple other people but I didn’t want to stare.
But my H tells me he often comes out for community events and earlier he did look like he was waiting to be recognized.
Duffs team won the celebrity game, but that’s cause Chris Adams did a great job as qtrback.
( the musicians were like " nah, I need my fingers!")</p>
<p>Fun!</p>
<p>Fantasy football makes football nuts. I had Peyton in one league, Luck in my other, and my husband was playing against me in one of them to boot. Very divided loyalties!! Good game, though! </p>
<p>Just saw the Ray Rice video. He could have killed her and acted like it didn’t matter. I have to reconsider watching the NFL unless they revisit his penalty. By reconsider, I mean I am revulsed and can’t put up with it.</p>
<p>I came here to say the same thing! I just saw it while watching ESPN during my workout. Horrific! The elevator exit was bad enough and deserved a much stiffer penalty but this is just awful. Now I wonder how the police had this all along and he got a diversionary program and if the NFL saw it. If not why not. He hit her twice! Just Ack! I can’t say anything that would be strong enough. </p>
<p>He needs to be gone this week either via the NFL reopening the case or the Ravens waiving him. And over on the left coast the other Harbaugh isn’t doing to great on domestic violence either.</p>
<p>Why wasn’t that video released a long time ago? It was from inside the elevator and should have been accessible as easily as the video outside the elevator.</p>
<p>Rice cut from Ravens!!!</p>
<p>My fantasy football autodraft picked him for me. Joy.</p>
<p>Agree, razorsharp. There is still the question of why the NFL didn’t have or didn’t respond appropriately to this video. They’ve had since the middle of February to do the right thing.</p>
<p>It is sad to me the outlook of a battered partner that she married him anyway and was “forced” to make a statement and give interview as if she had culpability. I was angry to hear one commentator this am say that one could see from the video that she hadn’t “egged him on” as if that is even possible. A woman could say anything at all and it wouldn’t justify that sort of behavior. I am angry that people are still implying that she could have somehow brought it on herself (aside from being with him to begin with).</p>
<p>One the other hand, by releasing Ray Rice his income drops which will affect his wife as well. She is being punished financially for his actions which she apparently forgives because she chose to marry him. I wonder what the wife will say now?</p>
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<p>Not much question in my mind as to why they didn’t respond appropriately, saintfan. It would have reflected badly on the league. And it would have cost them the services of a talented player. Balanced against those two factors, a battered woman’s rights and well-being don’t count for much with the NFL.</p>
<p>It’s not credible that they didn’t have this new video before today, but let’s suspend disbelief for a moment and say that that’s true. Apparently the video they DID have – Rice dragging his unconscious fiancée out of the elevator – didn’t alarm them enough to issue him more than a slap on the wrist. </p>
<p>I agree that the whole business of Janay’s “responsibility” in this is disgusting. razorsharp, may I suggest you do some reading on the psychodynamics of abusive relationships. </p>
<p>I’m happy to see that they finally addressed the situation appropriate but it is very sad to me that this young woman is now his wife. Someone needs to intervene and get her away from this man. Men who behave like this never do it just once.</p>
<p>Did you hear a UConn player quit today because of concussion issues? Football has got to get it together on all these fronts.</p>
<p><a href=“UConn QB Casey Cochran Quits Playing Football Due to Concussions – NBC Connecticut”>UConn QB Casey Cochran Quits Playing Football Due to Concussions – NBC Connecticut;
<p>I predict/hope the UT QB follows suit.</p>
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<p>May I suggest you learn how to read posts. I am fully aware of the psychodynamics of abusive relationship. You need to learn about straw man arguments. In other words attributing an argument to someone who made no such argument is the same as making an assumption and we know what happens when you make an assumption.</p>
<p>I remember finding this piece to be really informative and helpful in understanding more about the perspective from a person who is being abused in a domestic situation. Yes, razorsharp . . . now it will be her “fault” that he is out of a job and that is why many women don’t press charges. That is often the case with the wives of police officers. I hate to think of where this goes from here on a family level. Maybe it will be a wake up call for Ray McDonald’s fiancée. One can only hope.</p>
<p><a href=“A Raised Hand | The New Yorker”>A Raised Hand | The New Yorker;
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<p>I never said that or suggested that. your post is a lie and you should apologize to me.</p>
<p>I read that as sarcasm, not as an accusation to razor-sharp.</p>