SACRIFICIAL LAMB OF THE NFL

The NFL suspended Ray Rice for life not because the former Baltimore Ravens star running back cold-cocked his now wife, but because the league needed to appease its angry women fans

Let me make it crystal clear that no man should ever hit a woman, the lone possible exception being that he had to hit her in order to save himself from serious bodily injury.

Unless you are living under a rock, you know that Ray Rice knocked out his fiancé at the time while they were in a casino-hotel elevator. The first surveillance video showed Rice dragging her into the hotel hallway. Because of the resulting outcry from women, Rice was suspended for two games. Then out came the second video showing him cold-cocking his now wife inside the elevator. That created a real shitstorm from women. In order to appease the league’s women fans, Rice was banned from the NFL for life. To put it succinctly, Ray Rice was handed up as a sacrificial lamb.

As you probably know, an arbitrator has overturned the suspension and the NFL immediately reinstated Rice. But it is questionable whether a team will pick him up because none want to offend a swarm of uber-angry women.

In view of what Rice did, he should have received more than just a two-game suspension. But suspended for life? Come on, give me a break!