All you need to add to that is you heard it from a couple of informed sources and you've got yourself a perfect Bernstein sentence there.

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Clearly the NFL is lying to try and cover themselves.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
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No doubt. They must have thought it would never come out.

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Crazy that dog fighting gets a stronger punishment than knocking your wife out

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

My memory may not be great, but during the original suspension talk it seemed pretty clear the NFL had and saw the elevator tape, like it wasn't even an issue, even without the Peter King quote I posted.

I don't know, based on how some people talk about dogs it's not that crazy sadly, but that's a whole nother can of worms.

I wouldn't hold your breath. This is the organization that celebrates Ray Lewis, who at the minimum, was an accessory to a double homicide.

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The backlash over the Ray Rice video has begun ... with celebs from all facets of sports and entertainment ripping the NFL and Rice over the new elevator knockout footage.

Seth Rogen -- I don't know much about football, but I know that Ray Rice is a piece of garbage who shouldn't be allowed to play it professionally anymore. @nflcommish your punishment for beating a woman is less than for smoking weed. Get your head out of your f**king ass.

Deion Sanders -- Instead of @RayRice27 and his Wife being the topic of your conversation today for the video let's PRAY for them and their marriage.

Michelle Beadle -- She must have used some pretty inflammatory words to deserve those punches. Two freaking games. Criminal act. Go sit in the corner.<span >Did @nfl and @nflcommish really think this video wouldn't eventually surface? That we wouldn't see that disgrace? Never too late, Goodell

Jay Glazer -- I am never speechless. That ray rice video... beyond words. Ban him now! ...
If you play a violent sport & are violent toward a woman ur right to play that sport should be taken away. Plus his callous disregard for her well being after she was KO'd is equally as disturbing. Absolutely disgraceful

Keith Olbermann -- Roger Goodell's position as Commissioner of the NFL is no longer tenable. Whether he saw the #RayRice video or he did not, he failed.

Doug Gottlieb -- Remember when #Ravens fans gave #RayRice a standing O.... Twice? Good times

Coy Wire -- NFL Players Association should demand that Ray Rice be banned from the NFL. I'd be damned if I had to be associated w/ him.

Jason Jones -- @NFL If you truly didn't know about this video, you not only need to fire Ray Rice, you need to hire the investigative team @TMZ

Linda Cohn -- Looks like this #RayRice video was more important to discover for TMZSports than it was to the @NFL. Very sad.

Chris Kluwe -- Looks like the Ravens' strategy of "MOVE ALONG FOLKS, RAY RICE'S WIFE IS SORRY SHE GOT BEATEN" might not have been the best choice.

Sage Steele -- One of the most disgusting aspects of new #RayRice video? Failure of prosecutors in Atlantic County, NJ. Saw video & didn't prosecute? Sick.


Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2014/09/08/ray-rice- ... z3CkBLfMaF

ESPN is pimping they're going to have Ray Lewis talk about Ray Rice before the game tonight. That should be a hoot.

Shut the fuck up, Deion.

You know what? There are a lot of players named Deion these days. What a cool name, Deion. If I were gonna change my name, I'd go with Deion.

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Dan Bernstein ‏@dan_bernstein 2h
For all the new Ray Rice outrage, what did you THINK happened in the elevator? That she slipped? You should have been this mad weeks ago.


He's right

Kind of. If she was hitting him in the face multiple times then there would at least be some justification for him defending himself. This is pretty clearly one sided.

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The part where he spits on her escalates things a bit though.

I guess so. People seemed surprised by the punch though.

chris brown's old pal...

Jenny Johnson ‏@JennyJohnsonHi5 2h
How is anyone surprised by the new Ray Rice video? Of course he punched her in the elevator. He didn't tickle her into unconsciousness...

Details

It was more violent than I suspected. I'm surprised she didn't have even more medical issues.

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538 has a searchable database of NFL suspensions:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/nfl-domestic-violence-policy-suspensions/

Ravens having 8PM (not sure which time zone) press conference, hopeful thinking on my part, but one of the reasons to have one that late might too make sure paper work is clear and legal to release Rice. I suppose they could have it then because everyone will be watching MNF, but it's not like whatever they said wouldn't be all over MNF halftime or during the broadcast anyway. Aren't the Ravens playing Thursday night? Great time to be on national tv.

Things are pretty bad for you when Doug Gottlieb can score that easily off of you.

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- Henry George

Agreed. The stories that came out made it sound like she was attacking him and he slapped her back and she slipped and hit her head. She may have touched his face walking to the elevator but that's as far as it went. He was the aggressor and he shouldn't be allowed to play.

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GO BEARS!!!

Yeah, Deion, let's not talk about. Ignore it, and it will go away, right?

Pray for their marriage? Idiot.

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O.J. Coztansa

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My guy deion! lol

I do believe d always has good intentions, he just says and does dumb stuff.

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“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Ravens cut him. Good. Hopefully no one picks him up.

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That escalated quickly.

Would he be a good backup for the Bears?

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No team is going to pick him up, he is done.

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2018
#ExtendLafleur
10 More Wins

Call in with that, Rick.

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At the very least, he his done for the year. But the NFL and many dopes out there love a redemption story, and and would probably welcome him back next season after an apology tour, and a crying interview on Sportscenter's Sunday conversation.

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Somebody will pick him up before next season.

Probably not this year, though.

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