Quick Hit 7/24: Another Day, Another Domestic-Violence Suspension -- and Other NFL Jokes

... and another pathetic slap on the wrist by an NFL which knows it's game represents rapists and domestic abusers everywhere.


Today, the Baltimore Ratbirds' Ray Rice (who's jersey was being worn by Catheter Man from yesterday's Quick Hit -- coincidence?  I think not!) was suspended two games for knocking out his then-fiancé.


He was also fined a third game check by the NFL, some of which will be applied against Baltimore's number for player conduct this season.  (I believe it's $50,000 can be applied to the number.)  That fine appears to be slightly less than $60,000, based on his 2013 salary, since the incident happened then.


OK, let's get real here.  As I said a couple of days ago, football, as a non-consensual power-over, is a great allegory (symbolism) for the rape culture which exists in our country.  It's on the field, it's on the exhibitionists cheerleaders on the sidelines, it's basically in every ad one way or the other -- football is about being a MAN...


(Oh, you really thought it was an accident that Smiling Bob was on the game pushing the latest ED drug?)


It's time for women just to get violent on the institution of football.  Whether it's a walkout, a disruptive protest, or what-have-you, something (and something REAL) needs to be done.


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And I caught this little ditty about my Fine Blotters...


Apparently, the NFL was lying to us about a lot of the fines, or quietly dropped a shit-ton of them while I wasn't looking.


According to a May, 2014 NFL report, the number of teams which actually had to submit money to the NFL for fines was actually only FOUR.


The league said the average per-team amount for fines for player safety dropped 30% year-over-year to about $60,000 per team.


(That would've been about $1.92 million for the season.  Now, yes, this was for player-safety fouls, and did not include uniform violations or other fines.)


This blog detailed FOUR POINT SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS IN FINES (including team remittances -- I counted FIVE just in the last four weeks of the season...).


Well, barring any computer disasters, this blog will, once again, expose the fraud that is the player safety and club remittance policies by exposing the truth that the NFL and the media don't want you to know.

Fuck you, Roger Goodell.
The NFL didn't release the four teams, but Detroit and Tampa were