Powerful Pre-Game Statement On The NFL And Domestic Violence

[Jazzy]

In the lead-up to tonight's NFL match-up between the Baltimore Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers, CBS commentator James Brown took a moment to address the issue of Ray Rice, domestic violence, and the attitudes in football that perpetuate it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I1o3PEyVxE

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Your thoughts?

 

[DrLeftover]

Words are cheap.

And Mr. Brown does not work for the NFL.

 

[DrLeftover]

One thing that everybody is dancing around and nobody has mentioned is....

What about women who intentionally provoke said violence, even to the point of punching their male 'friend', not slapping, that's a woman thing, a closed fist punch.

I am familiar with such a case, and the domestic assault charge against the man was dismissed when the woman admitted in court that she had punched him twice in the face before he hit her, THEN she called the cops and had him arrested.

Why she wasn't charged with the same thing upon her admission is more of a statement about the court system than anything else.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Very pretty and idealistic words. Words that mean zip at this point.

 

[DrLeftover]

Fourteen NFL games will be played Sunday, but the attention of many fans is still focused on the shocking series of events that took place since Week 1 drew to a close. In the wake of Adrian Peterson’s deactivation and indictment for negligent injury of a child, ESPN’s Cris Carter delivered a powerful speech on child abuse on NFL Countdown. Before that show started, anchor Hannah Storm closed SportsCenter with her own story of how she explained the NFL crisis to her daughters.

“On Monday morning I was genuinely excited to come to work and break down what I thought was a fascinating first weekend in the NFL. Instead I kicked off ESPN’s coverage of the horrific Ray Rice elevator video. Meanwhile, one of my daughters has her first fantasy football team this season, but at breakfast this week, instead of discussing how her team was doing, we watched the Ray Rice video play out again in all its ugliness.
I spent this week answering seemingly impossible questions about the league’s biggest stars. ‘Mom, why did he do that? Why isn’t he in jail? Why didn’t he get fired?'”

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/09/espn-hannah-storm-nfl-reaction


Why is everybody going to such lengths to do damage control for the NFL?

You Do Not Need To Watch Football To Live!

Turn the damned thing off and find something else to do with your time.

You'll be much happier.

 

[DrLeftover]

I just found the answer to my last question.

13 Sept

Larry Wansley convinced himself long ago that three hours’ sleep is plenty. His thoughts kept him up anyway, but even if he did drift off, the chances were good that the phone — always next to his ear, whether at home or in a hotel room — would ring.

Sometimes it would be a contact in the Dallas Police Department; other times there’d be a nightclub owner on the other line. So rather than close his eyes and take his chances, the Dallas Cowboys’ longtime security director learned to stay up and wait.

“All my professional life,” Wansley said, “has basically been on call, responding to situations that take place and addressing them, resolving them.”

Wansley is one member of a vast network of problem solvers who work security in one capacity or another for the National Football League. America’s most popular sports league is also one of its more valuable companies, generating about $10 billion in annual revenue, and behind the scenes is an intricate and largely secretive three-layered security force — mainly comprised of former federal agents — in charge of staying in front of the league’s problems.

Its emphases are swiftness and thoroughness, its tentacles reaching into states even without an NFL team, its code mostly one of silence. And while its agents can help keep bad actors from ever getting to the league by vetting them beforehand, they are equally if not more valuable in funnelling information back to the league office once problems occur to help make sure NFL leaders are not caught off guard.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/redskins/nfls-elaborate-security-network-is-supposed-to-protect-league-from-trouble/2014/09/13/795949aa-3b4a-11e4-8601-97ba88884ffd_story.html