Blogger 365 Day 253 - Really?

     So now the NFL is bringing in independent  investigators to see if the league handled the Ray Rice case appropriately.  Really?  Is that the best Roger Goodell could do to protect his own ass.  Let's not kid anyone, the video of Ray Rice striking his girlfriend and knocking her unconscious in an elevator was in the possession of the local prosecutor and Ray Rice's own attorney, so just because the video wasn't out there for public consumption does not mitigate the fact that the video was out there for the NFL's consumption, should they want it all that much.  The fact of the matter is they didn't.  Just like they didn't want Janay Palmer's testimony all that much, so they had her tell her side of the story while the man who beat her was in the room. Nothing screams coerced testimony quite as much as having the victim of abuse tell their side of the story while their abuser is in the room.

     I go back to what I said before, either the NFL had seen the video and was complicit in a coverup or they were willfully ignorant and didn't want to see what was readily available to them, that being the video of Ray Rice punching his now wife and knocking her unconscious.   Either option is grossly inadequate of the hierarchy of a professional sports league.  Roger Goodell needs to resign and he needs to do it today, each day that he remains in the chair of NFL commissioner is a day where the league gives tacit approval to beating women, as long as nobody sees it, or claims to have seen it.