Let the CYA begin!
This story has blown up in the NFL's face, and it might not be finished blowing up. It seems as if the NFL's (and the Baltimore Raven's) contention that it did not see the video from inside the elevator is a lie. I figure that reporters are scrambling to find some way to confirm that both the league and the team had the video (Sports Illustrated's Peter King had implied in an early report that the league had seen the video, and tried to clumsily walk back the claim this afternoon). If they do confirm this, the league is facing a serious backlash, not the least from all of those reporters whose glamorous "NFL insider" status just became "you're a shill for a despicable bunch of woman-hating assholes."
The issue of domestic violence among sports professionals is now front-and-center and may remain so for some time, especially in light of situations like this one and the brutal assault by an MMA fighter, who savagely beat his ex-girlfriend for the crime of being his ex-girlfriend. The NFL attempted to have its cake and eat it, too. They may wind up choking on it.
This story has blown up in the NFL's face, and it might not be finished blowing up. It seems as if the NFL's (and the Baltimore Raven's) contention that it did not see the video from inside the elevator is a lie. I figure that reporters are scrambling to find some way to confirm that both the league and the team had the video (Sports Illustrated's Peter King had implied in an early report that the league had seen the video, and tried to clumsily walk back the claim this afternoon). If they do confirm this, the league is facing a serious backlash, not the least from all of those reporters whose glamorous "NFL insider" status just became "you're a shill for a despicable bunch of woman-hating assholes."
The issue of domestic violence among sports professionals is now front-and-center and may remain so for some time, especially in light of situations like this one and the brutal assault by an MMA fighter, who savagely beat his ex-girlfriend for the crime of being his ex-girlfriend. The NFL attempted to have its cake and eat it, too. They may wind up choking on it.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
