It's called football. You don't have to call it "American Football" unless your goal is to sound like you have a Union Jack stuffed up your ass and a spot of tea brewing up.

You know...the essential element of trying to hurt one of your own teammates in a camp drill in August. That's just common knowledge.

but a guy of comparable size, weight, etc. shouldn't be phased by that.

The added risk is negligible

Oh, as if playing football doesn't inherently expose players to the risk of concussions.

You certainly wouldn't see any other major professional sport with these kinds of antics, would you?

Seanbaby's articles about MMA should be in the Smithsonian.

You can't really hurt somebody wearing a helmet by swinging at them. He could have broken Fuller's collarbone or given him a concussion pretty easily like that.

You never know till you try.

Can I ask you a serious question? What do you get out of coming to places like Gawker and reading the stories? I'm really curious: you clearly just want to talk about racial issues, so why are you here?

Notallwhitemen

I'm betting that you spend a good deal of your day just astonished at the things minorities are getting away with in this unfreakinreal PC world in which we find ourselves.

Not any behavior. Shitty behavior.

Perhaps it wouldn't appear that way if there weren't a bunch of folks talking out both sides of their mouths and rationalizing bullshit from the NFL or Smith or the Ravens.

And there's the charming martyr complex that also tends to accompany the "I'm no fan of domestic violence, but.." sentiment.

He's rationalizing why the Ravens PR team is doing what they're doing, and pretending that they just didn't have any other option other than immediately launching into their prodigal son redemption angle.

But you believe it 100%. What is the source of that certainty?

Ray Rice had no history of, well, uppercutting his now-wife until he, uh, uppercutted her. He did what he did, and it was shocking and sad and unfortunate. But what happened, happened. Ray can't change that. I'm not at the dining room table with him and Janay, but I'd hope he learned from what he did. The team is an…

Yes, you were, because you f'ing made up that "sentiment".

That is silly, which is probably why I didn't say that.