Trouble is, cases can be lengthy. You could lose a player for a whole year on trivial charges.

Isn’t the bigger issue here that mandating counseling for the accuser is crazy because, you know, she doesn’t work with the NFL in any capacity? Thats like your employer telling your girlfriend she needs to wear a uniform or something

It’s almost as though the NFL is just a sports league and is woefully unequipped to operate as a supplemental version of an already flawed justice system.

This inexorable frittering of getting to third, getting sent back to second and juggling the two infinitely is triggering some serious ptsd from my high school dating life.

by insinuating to their shills that Janay Rice was to blame for provoking Ray and that’s why he initially only got a two game suspension - and by emphasizing that she “apologized for her role in the incident”.

The NFL can’t really ever punish off the field things right. Once they decided they had to, they were locked into doing terrible trauma calculus that will always force comparisons in punishment. Since they also punish people for on the field stuff, it makes any punishment look weird. Whether right or not, a comparison…

The second you put the ring on her finger and say, “I Do.”

Every now and then, I sometimes wish kinja had downvotes. This is one of those times.

I read your first sentence to suggest that a witnesses credibility shouldn’t be a factor for a fact finder to consider. Credibility is and should always be in issue, regardless of the gender breakdown amongst the fact finding body. That’s not a bad thing either.

I’ll preface (because I probably have to on Kinja) by saying that the NFL is just a disgusting corporation that is damn near murdering humans for profit. That said:

Weird how you tidied up the part where the victim explicitly stated she wished to blackmail Elliot as just “she lied that one time”.

Seriously, why are we lumping in Ezekiel Elliot, a guy who had multiple witnesses refute that he did not beat the victim in question, whose accuser has gone on record to convince a…

Well, I probably have an unpopular take on that subject. Or use of PEDs or anything else that directly impacts the fairness of the game. Assume that Brady did deflate the balls, and that the Patriots somehow benefit from that. A lot of assumptions, I know, but follow me down the path. That goes directly to the…

The most important time to stop arguing is when you’ve won the argument. I drove through a security gate, thinking the guard had waived me through when he thought he waved me to stop. I apologized said it wouldn’t happen again and he kept berating me.

Personally? If it’s something that a prosecutor declines to bring charges for because of lack of evidence, I’m not sure the NFL should do anything. If you work an office job and someone accuses you of domestic violence and you end up not getting charged, should your job suspend or fire you based solely on the…

I agree with your position that counseling should go hand in hand with suspensions for abuse. I do not understand why you trotted out the term “slut-shaming”.

At no point in this long article did Diana Moscovitz even attempt to address the most important issue, namely how these revelations might affect Elliot’s value in my upcoming fantasy football draft.

I’m legitimately curious: if you were the NFL, what would you have done? I don’t know, after reading this article, whether you think they should have suspended Elliot or not; what evidence you think should not have been considered that was considered, or vice versa; and how a sports league obviously inadequate to the…

Can you at least suggest what people over 40 should wear while you are throwing out blanket statements? I mean, obviously cargo shorts, but what else?

Go ask 10 random people to palm a men’s basketball.

“You just have to be tall enough” but it’s empirical fact that the vast, vast majority of people aren’t.