You know this guy recently died, right? Have some respect.

RESPE6T

"Yeah, GIFs! Yeah, GIFs!"

This is exactly right. All the noise, the contract termination, the suspension: it's not because the NFL saw the tape. It's because we saw the tape. Tangentially, it occurs to me to wonder how long it would have taken Rice to end up on some other team's roster, had he not been suspended. I'm guessing an hour.

You mean the same league that deliberately lied about the long-term effects of concussions lied about a video?!?!?

In my very personal opinion (based on experience, as a child, but an opinion nonetheless), one of the biggest reasons domestic violence is rarely appropriately punished, and one of the biggest reasons women struggle to leave, is that domestic violence is seen as one of those things that is personal and between the…

Most victims of domestic abuse stay with there abuser. So everyone needs to back off the "she's doing it for the money.".

Well that's just a whole bunch of sad right there. Sad because she thinks it's a ratings ploy, sad that she defends her husband, sad that it reminds me that even after everything that went down she made that man her husband, sad that it took the second video for this punishment to come down when the first was horrific…

It's the year 2014 and TMZ has more credibility than the NFL. Well done Roger.

Berman: "They cut him immediately..." 4 hours after, but whatever.

Berman: When Ray Rice entered the elevator, he swung at Janey and she went back-back-back-back-back-back-back to the wall.

They must be using a lousy microphone, because I'm watching these videos and all I can hear is a rhythmic slapping sound.

I'll admit that I feel a bit stupid writing about beer on a sports site today ... but it's my job, and I do it every day, and I don't think it really hurts anyone, you know? I totally understand anyone who just skips over this because they have heavier shit on their mind, but I don't think it's de facto wrong or…

/rant on

Baltimore: [cuts Rice]

I mean this seriously: is there any shred of dignity left to defend the existence, period, of football as a sport? It's terminally sick; any rational person can see it.

That loud sound you hear isn't the sound of applause for this move , it's the sound of the Ravens' collective hamstrings snapping from all that backpedaling.

"Better after there is completely damning evidence released that will destroy our brand than never."

I have noticed a distinct quiet on the western front from those here (mostly gray-zone folks) who a few weeks ago were saying Rice should skate because his woman attacked him viciously with a full- on physical assault, that his self-defense did not count as domestic violence and people aghast at this made a mountain…

it's shouldn't be up to the NFL — this guy should be in jail, period