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[Mully]

That's the PREPARED version? ouch.

Had he actually prepared he would have kept quiet. Now it just seems like he's trying to write his own ESPN 30 for 30 years before it's even conceived.

 

[OriginofHysteria]

So what are the odds the NFL changes the terms of Ray's suspension now in order to save face and maybe try to guarantee that nobody tries to sign him this season?

I don't think any team is going to attempt to sign him this year. I think they'll wait for it to blow over and then sign him next off-season

 

[nateeasy]

He'll be with a team next year.

You're naïve for thinking otherwise.

I just don't think he is any good anymore.

 

[Amir0x]

Reminder, this is from May:

That quote always kills.

"HE'S A HECK OF A GUY, HE'S DONE EVERYTHING RIGHT SINCE. HE MADE A MISTAKE, ALRIGHT?"

Listen, I know about mistakes Mr. guy-who-made-that-quote. If you make a mistake, it can sometimes take YEARS before people trust you again and are willing to have even close to the same amount of respect. And guess what, it's not my right to be angry with people who continue to harbor that negative feeling toward me, because I'm the one who fostered it in the first place by my behavior.

I'm all for forgiveness. I believe Ray Rice deserves it too, one day. He beat his girlfriend senseless in March, and then that quote was from May. This guy nearly killed this girl by his stupidity, and he wants forgiveness a month later? Hell naw.

The guy in the quote makes it sound like some casual everyday mistake too. I made fucked up mistakes on a forum and people still hold it over my head, and I gotta deal with it because I made those choices - didn't matter that I was younger and dealing with anxiety and depression. I made those choices as an adult and I have to live with people thinking less of me for them. This guy BEAT THE SHIT out of his girl and this dude in the quote is gonna defend him a month later as if people are going in too hard on him? Give me a fucking break lol

 

[andycapps]

 

[Delta Assault]

Career over. No ones going to touch him.

*looks at Michael Vick*

Yeah, about that...

 

[BruiserBear]

So what are the odds the NFL changes the terms of Ray's suspension now in order to save face and maybe try to guarantee that nobody tries to sign him this season? Ray will be on a different NFL roster the moment anyone's starting running back gets banged up.

The negative PR alone should keep any NFL team from picking him up this season.

 

[Sephzilla]

I don't think any team is going to attempt to sign him this year. I think they'll wait for it to blow over and then sign him next off-season

Do the Cowboys have a decent running back this year? If not, Jerry Jones loves headlines.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

*looks at Michael Vick*

Yeah, about that...

Vick still had some left in the tank.

Rice is washed up.

 

[AlphaK]

Yes! Ban this coward from the NFL.

 

[Enron]

Some team that is hurting bad at RB will pick him up this season, I guarantee it.


Also - the Ravens and the NFL already saw this video. TMZ just now happened to acquire it. Everyone involved in the Ray Rice suspension already knew of and saw this.

 

[Fathead]

Ravens just made goodells life easier. He can't destroy the cba, and revisiting the suspension does that. If no one will sign him for toxicity, though, he effectively is suspended anyway.

 

[Hasphat'sAnts]

Ravens are a clownshoe organization

 

[Squalor]

Rice doesn't have to be done in the NFL over this. But he has to earn his redemption. The Ravens, the NFL, and Rice all tried to shortcut redemption. They didn't get away with it, thankfully.

How, exactly, didn't the NFL get away with it?

The NFL has faced no consequences.

All that backlash turned into was some public outcry. That was it. Fans still packed the stadia Thursday and Sunday. People still tuned in from home.

 

[jtb]

his career is basically over because he's posted poor numbers last season and his career is nearing the usual expiration date for running backs anyways; not a particularly good combination

maybe some team will take a flier on him next season but why would you do that when you can pick up some undrafted free agent who can do the same job, might have some upside, and none of the baggage? I don't see it.

players like Vick, Incognito were given "second chances" because they offered skills that were in demand. but when you no longer have the skills, the NFL is done with you very quickly—baggage or not.

 

[Amir0x]

*looks at Michael Vick*

Yeah, about that...

pfft at least some people in this world think humans are more important than dogs

And plus is Ray Rice as talented as Vick was? DONT THINK SO

 

[OriginofHysteria]

Do the Cowboys have a decent running back this year? If not, Jerry Jones loves headlines.

They have DeMarco Murray. If he stays healthy.

 

[Black Mamba]

The same judge and prosecutor who let professional football star Ray Rice avoid a trial after beating his wife unconscious are pushing forward with the prosecution of Shaneen Allen, a single mother who carried a gun into New Jersey without realizing her Pennsylvania permit didn't apply there.

Allen, a mother of two from Philadelphia, was driving in New Jersey last fall when she was pulled over by a police officer. She informed the officer she had a handgun in her purse and a Pennsylvania license-to-carry permit, at which point the officer arrested her and charged her with a felony for unlawful possession of a weapon, because New Jersey does not recognize out-of-state gun permits.

Allen tried to avoid a trial and jail time by applying to a pre-trial intervention program in New Jersey for first-time offenders. Ray Rice, the Baltimore Ravens running back who knocked his then-fiancee unconscious during an altercation in Atlantic City in February, was accepted into the program in May.

But Superior Court Judge Michael Donio and New Jersey District Attorney Jim McClain, the same judge and prosecutor who allowed Rice to avoid prosecution, denied Allen's application to the program on Wednesday.

Allen, 27, cried for a moment in the hallway with her son Naiare and his father after a judge denied her motion to dismiss weapons charges filed against her in October and refused to overturn a prosecutor's decision to deny her entry into a first-time-offender diversion program.

So Allen walked back into court, turned down a plea deal that would have given her a 3 1/2-year sentence and decided to go to trial in October, hoping a jury would use some common sense and not send a working mother of two to prison for not knowing New Jersey's gun laws.

Allen has no criminal record, and she claims she bought the gun for self-defense after being robbed. Her trial is scheduled for October.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/07/shaneen-allen_n_5659383.html

Awesome to be rich/famous eh? Ju$tice.

 

[Sephzilla]

Vick still had some left in the tank.

Rice is washed up.

He did?

 

[Ikuu]

Do the Cowboys have a decent running back this year? If not, Jerry Jones loves headlines.

Could use someone to take some of the heat from Romo.

 

[AlphaK]

Do the Cowboys have a decent running back this year? If not, Jerry Jones loves headlines.

RB is a strong suit for us.

and whatever people like to think of Jerry...he's not going to sign a piece of shit like Ray Rice.

 

[Cornbread78]

Reminder, this is from May:

Did they know how despicable the act was at that time though? I think that video was an eye opener for everyone. ..


Good for them making it right though.

 

[Arkos]

Lol daaamn even after the video I still never expected anything like this. GG Ravens. Now who's gonna pick him up

 

[flkraven]

They have DeMarco Murray. If he stays healthy.

I'd also prefer Lance Dunbar over Ray Rice and his media circus.

 

[CassidyIzABeast]

He did?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn7uTh_p2oQ

absolutely

 

[Black Mamba]

He did?

He had an amazing 2010 season and was awarded with a big contract.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

He did?

Yes?

He made the Pro Bowl his first season back.

 

[Sephzilla]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn7uTh_p2oQ

absolutely

He had an amazing 2010 season and was awarded with a big contract.

I don't follow the Eagles much so apparently I missed the last flicker of Vick's career.

 

[Jarlaxle]

If a team signs him, does he still need to sit out two games after signing for his "suspension"?

 

[The Elite]

If a team signs him, does he still need to sit out two games after signing for his "suspension"?

It's an NFL suspension, so I assume so.

 

[Wolfgunblood Garopa]

Also from May:

https://twitter.com/Ravens/status/469918292061061120

Almost too good to be real, but it is.

 

[NastyBook]

Also from May:

https://twitter.com/Ravens/status/469918292061061120

I'd regret playing the part of a pinata to a brick shithouse football player too.

Here's hoping she goes full on Eddie Murphy RAW after she gets half.

 

[MLCodest]

Never too late to do the right thing. Hope he doesn't get picked up but I know he will.

 

[Delicious Waffles]

Should've happened when it first occurred, not because of a leaked video and the outcry it caused.

 

[Enron]

If a team signs him, does he still need to sit out two games after signing for his "suspension"?

He's already sat out one. He just needs to sit out week 2.

 

[Sephzilla]

If a team signs him, does he still need to sit out two games after signing for his "suspension"?

Pretty sure the suspension will follow him to whatever team signs with him

 

[Gucci Messiah]

Just saw this on ESPN, good on the Ravens. Hopefully his ass gets banned from the league.

 

[DrFunk]

TMZ: chaotic good and chaotic evil

 

[Arkos]

Why is Ru Paul on this Sportscenter panel

 

[helloresolven]

TMZ: chaotic good and chaotic evil

chaotic neutral?

 

[DyTonic]

A lot of these nfl players can pretend to be role models, but most of them are assholes. I've been around them most of college and high school. He deserved what was coming.

 

[SliceSabre]

He did?

For a couple a seasons after he came back he was pretty good.

 

[CapitalismSucks DonkeyBalls]

I hope people don't get rosey-eyed and view this as some great moral move made by the Ravens.

That video was a PR disaster waiting to happen. They just cut the cord before shit really hit the fan.

Still, it had to be done, glad they found their cojones and did something.

 

[DrGonzo615]

*looks at Michael Vick*

Yeah, about that...

a co-worker and I were just talking about Ray Rice and Vick was the first thing that came up.

Ray Rice will be back, everybody will forget what a piece of shit this guy is in 6 months.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

Breaking: Goodell suspends Rice indefinitely.

 

[Ninjimbo]

This is weird. I don't feel good about any of this.

 

[joeygreco1985]

Career over. No ones going to touch him.

Michael Vick came back. Nobody's ever truly off the table.

Except Aaron Hernandez.

 

[GravityMan]

Good decision by the Ravens. They didn't have much of a choice but to cut Rice.

I also think Roger Goodell needs to step down as NFL commissioner.

 

[MechDX]

Albert Breer ‏@AlbertBreer · 49s
From NFL: Roger Goodell has announced that based on new video evidence that became available today he has indefinitely suspended Ray Rice

 

[Zach]

Good.