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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRice case: purposeful misdirection by team, scant investigation by NFL
The seven-month scandal that is threatening Roger Goodell's future as NFL commissioner began with an unexpected phone call in the early morning hours on a Saturday in February.
Just hours after running back Ray Rice knocked out his then-fiancée with a left hook at the Revel Hotel Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the Baltimore Ravens' director of security, Darren Sanders, reached an Atlantic City police officer by phone. While watching surveillance video -- shot from inside the elevator where Rice's punch knocked his fiancée unconscious -- the officer, who told Sanders he just happened to be a Ravens fan, described in detail to Sanders what he was seeing.
Sanders quickly relayed the damning video's play-by-play to team executives in Baltimore, unknowingly starting a seven-month odyssey that has mushroomed into the biggest crisis confronting a commissioner in the NFL's 95-year history.
"Outside the Lines" interviewed more than 20 sources over the past 11 days -- team officials, current and former league officials, NFL Players Association representatives and associates, advisers and friends of Rice -- and found a pattern of misinformation and misdirection employed by the Ravens and the NFL since that February night.
http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/11551518/how-ray-rice-scandal-unfolded-baltimore-ravens-roger
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Rice case: purposeful misdirection by team, scant investigation by NFL (Original Post)
yuiyoshida
Sep 2014
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Rex
(65,616 posts)1. Good Old Boys club. Got to protect what is important to them.
Women? Not so much.
procon
(15,805 posts)2. And that would be lots and lots of $$$. nt
jakefrep
(3,982 posts)3. Who cares if the NFL didn't investigate?
It's not their job.
yuiyoshida
(41,864 posts)4. No there is only that CONTRACT
The players sign in regards to their conduct on and off the field...