The NFL, Domestic Violence, and Deadspin: THAT Escalated Quickly

I saw this headline this morning on Deadspin, and would love to save them a lot of time.

"Do the NFL's Anti-Domestic Violence Initiatives Actually Even Exist?"

I could save them time and say "No."

The Deadspin article looks into what's actually been done -- and it's not a lot.

You have the PSA today.

You have the bluster of Herr Goodell.

Your executive committee is... a bunch of corporate organizations, half of whom appear to be ad hoc and almost-certainly totally made up.  ("Men Can Stop Rape" -- but don't really want to because it costs them much of their societal power...  *cough*)

Goodell, several times on Friday, brought up outside consultants, so they looked into it, and found one of the three people the league brought in...

.... was brought in as a consultant in the matter of "crisis management".  In short:  C.  Y.  A.

They talk about the money the NFL pledged to the National Domestic Violence Hotline (which, over five years, might pay Marshawn Lynch's salary for the next two), but the NDVH, when contacted, couldn't tell you exactly how much of the first year's money they'd received!

The National Sexual Violence Resource Center got a million, but not much direct help for shelters, so that's just bluster too.

And we've already discussed the "harsher punishments for players" part:  Since football players across this nation at all levels are Protected Men who can rape and abuse basically whoever they want without consequence, any real "harsher punishments" would have to come outside the Constitution, and are, hence, void -- as Goodell designed it.

Bad men doing bad things to bad men...

And none of this addresses the actual presentation of the games either.  One can only wonder, in about *does math* 8-9 hours how many Seattle/New England fans' wives/girlfriends are going to get the shit beat out of them because their men got left at the proverbial NFL altar, as it were.

One NFL player's wife said it would take no less than "cleaning up NFL culture" which would be "about way more than the issue in front of us", according to the Deadspin piece.

She's right, and because of the Real Manhood of Football, it WON'T.

It CAN'T.  The entire culture of the SPORT (not just the NFL) makes it the most violence-friendly construct this country has.

Remember THAT in a little more than five hours, Football Nation America.