Knocking your fiancee unconscious on tape - 2 game initial suspension.

[R3druM]

Quarterback "more probably than not" deflating few balls: 4 game suspension, 1 million fine, loss of draft picks.

Video for those few who haven't seen it yet. http://www.tmz.com/videos/0_ekaflcqq/

NFL priorities these days

[LittleBlue]

1. It wasn't just the crime

It was also the cover-up. Brady refused to hand over his phone to investigators. Not to mention this is a second offense for the Pats after Spygate

League had to do something or everyone would cheat

[UglyGreed]

2. Wow looks like

deflategate will beat out the number of Ebola threads on DU

[NCTraveler]

3. Two completely different issues.

One has to do directly with the integrity of the game. The other has to do with a crime, morals, and the integrity of the individual.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

4. I'd like the criminal justice system to handle Ray Rice

By the way, Bob Kraft thought Goodell did "a great job" with the Rice thing.

[HassleCat]

5. Not the Same

The GF abuse was one guy, off the field, not playing or practicing, so it affects the reputation of the NFL, indirectly, but does not affect the outcome of the game. The limp footballs were a case of cheating in an actual game, and the incident involved several people, maybe the whole team. Two different things. I will agree that the act of punching out your girlfriend's lights is a worse thing than cheating in an NFL game. In fact, I don't care if all NFL players cheat in all NFL games, and I do care when some big, powerful guy coldcocks a woman. But I'm not the NFL, and what matters to me is not what matters to them. They are, after all, an organization made up of grown men who play a game for a living.

[frylock]

6. fresh take alert