"We know what he did, we just don't see it as being that bad of a thing"

Yikes. Surprised nobody's been linking to that what with Rooney being "overseeing" the Rice investigation.

I think the Steelers had a situation where they had two players both arrested for domestic violence a few offseasons ago. The starter was kept on the roster and they cut the benchwarmer. I think the outrage over that lasted about 3 days. So there's your over/under.

http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/2008/03…

Hypothetical: If the GM actually stated the obvious and said, "If Peterson weren't as good a football player as he clearly is, there's a decent chance we would've parted ways with him by now," how big would the blowback be?

Don't worry guys, once the NFL ESPN Fox Sports TMZ finds the tape, Roger Goodell will be all over this brush this under the rug.

It has nothing to do with him as a football player.

Then why is he playing football?

"Actually, Henderson was let go because Erin is a girl's name."

Incoming Bizarro World Herschel Walker trade?

Owboyscay?

"Was I to question Mrs. Rice's quiet, downcast nod when Mr. Rice's representatives insisted that the underlying problem in the situation was Mrs. Rice's sassmouth; a mouth so full of sass that it needed to be taught a lesson? That would have been overtly racist, and the Shield is above such racism, except insofar as…

After Goodell suspended Rice for two games in July, this person said, Goodell told several NFL owners that he felt it would have been insensitive to question Janay Rice's story because it would have come across as an indictment of her character.

Plus, it doesn't fit with the prosecutors actions when they DROPPED the charge against Janay Rice and ELEVATED the one against Ray Rice. That, alone, should have informed them there was more to this than what they claim to have known.

"Ignorance is not a suitable defense."

BREAKING: the NFL has hastily and retroactively promoted Cardinals linebacker John Abraham to executive.