The rest of the story -- a new video from the elevator -- just came out, and it basically shows Ray Rice in all his "glory".
TMZ has released a second video, and this one actually shows the punch which Rice used to knock his then-fiance and current wife out.
It's so bad that, in Football Nation America, Scott Fujita said the following this morning:
In no uncertain terms, and in ABSOLUTELY no uncertain terms, I agree with you.
But you CANNOT tell me that football players, on all levels, across this nation, don't get away with this and worse on wives, girlfriends, random strangers, and other people they consider their lessers.
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ESPN UPDATE AS I WRITE THIS: Ray Rice has been CUT. He has been FIRED by the Baltimore Ravens this morning.
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The problem is not just Ray Rice. Anyone with a brain knew that something BAD went down in that elevator.
Frankly, this cut should've happened several weeks ago, and THEN the Commissioner can act.
But the problem, and it's one reason we really need to re-examine why we even have especially football in this nation, is that violence and subjugation toward their lessers (be they weaker players, women, LD students, etc. and so forth) is part and parcel of the football culture of this country.
Yes, more than just football players beat their wives, etc. and so forth. I get that.
But one cannot tell me that this "sport" has not had a hand in making Ray Rice an inhumane being who, heat of the moment, felt it was right to do as this new video shows he has done.
This misogynistic and mastubatory enterprise shows America at it's worst, and has a hand in creating all this, from the head shots to the steroids to the attitudes perpetrated onto and by the participants.
Erin Gloria Ryan of the Jezebel women's affairs sister site to Deadspin has called for an absolute boycott of the NFL by all female fans, saying any female who chooses to be an NFL fan is a hypocrite.
Frankly, I might add "idiot" to that. Any person who can't see that this is the ultimate manifestation of manhood, in the eyes of a Football Nation and Religion that has run amok in this country, really needs to be protected from themselves as well as these football-laced animals.
And then there's another angle, as another Deadspin article points out: The NFL claims, in statements today, it didn't have this second video.
Adam Schefter claims otherwise, and he's not afraid to say it.
The NFL is lying to everybody, Adam. The entire Football Nation America is lying as well.
Football players across this nation are literally given women as pieces of meat to do as they so elect, and this starts in HIGH SCHOOL -- if not EARLIER.
Anyone who is completely shocked by this video has no idea of just how much of this goes on on an everyday basis in this country. We allow these "men" to do as they wish -- mostly without retribution, save the occasional sacrificial lamb to try to keep people quiet -- as their "prize" for "being a real man" and getting their brains knocked out on the field.
What the fuck do you think the cheerleaders and halftime dancers are anymore, if not designated harems for the athletes?
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More new news: Goodell's hand has been forced: RAY RICE HAS BEEN BANNED.
Roger Goodell has announced that based on new video evidence that became available today he has
indefinitely suspended Ray Rice.
— Greg Aiello (@gregaiello) September 8, 2014
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I believe if we ever have an accounting of the number of football players and other athletes who commit these levels of acts, the numbers would be staggering.
Today is basically only the end everybody should've known was coming. To be a "football player" and a "real man" in this country has become part and parcel to violence toward women and others considered their lessers, and anyone who is truly shocked at this new video is, well... an idiot.
Anyone who doesn't understand the level of cover-up on the part of Football Nation America, doubly so.
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