Violence in the NFL
NFL players have been surrounded with many negative stereotypes for years now. This is not casual as more than a few players have been involved in violent crime scandals—and their stigma reflects onto everybody else, sometimes even the NFL betting game. However the NFL isn’t doing much to solve these violent and often misogynistic crimes. Most football fan think that it’s necessary that the NFL punish these players beside the legal sanction they receive. One scandal that wasn’t left unnoticed was the Ray Rice Elevator Scandal, let’s recap what happened and it’s implications in the NFL tolerance to domestic violence.The Ray Rice Scandal and its Implications
The lack of response from the NFL on criminal allegations against their players became particularly obvious in the Ray Rice Scandal, but he is not the only one involved in a violent crime against women, there’s a whole list of NFL players that have violated decency and respect for their partners and fans: Daryl Washington, Greg Hardy, Jonathan Dwyer, Ray McDonald, and the list goes on. These players have been arrested for violence against family members—and the NFL didn’t sanction them in any way.Greg Hardy continued to play until the Ray Rice scandal, and the only reason why Daryl Washington got suspended wasn’t because of the domestic violence case, but substance abuse. Both McDonald and Dwyer did not miss a game for their arrests. Here’s my interview with Floyd Mayweather from this past fall, the same week the Ray Rice video was leaked: https://t.co/yFiBhEQhFb
— Rachel Nichols (@Rachel__Nichols) May 2, 2015
