ATHLETIC ASSHOLES

[Cutz]

So, here's my take. No matter what else happened, it's undisputed that this football player knocked out his fiancee (she didn't pass out because she was drunk; witnesses reported the physical altercation). We then see him drag her outta the elevator.

To me, there's no justification for him to knock her unconscious. I don't think anyone has to knock out a person whom they claim to love in order to contain a situation (whether it's Big Bertha cold-cocking Beanpole Bill or Ray Rice flattening his fiancee) unless that loved one has a weapon or can't be restrained. I personally can't believe that she presented great physical harm to him and Ray Rice couldn't have restrained her without knocking her out cold in an act of self defense. So, I think the dude's an asshole and don't know whether she's a violent asshole too.

Anyway, he wasn't convicted and the league has handled it as they see fit, so on with the show. I just hope this woman is not being bounced around by Rice and doesn't end up in the hospital or dead -- that's all.

I agree, tho there's no evidence that he knocked her out, just that they both hit each other and that she was out. Did she hit him, he hit her, and then she swung at him, missed, he tripped her, and she faceplanted into the elevator rail? Who knows. I agree with you that it paints them both as violent assholes, and I hope neither of them end up seriously injured in the future because of it. Overall, I think it's probably true that he knocked her out, just that if she told Goodell she hit her head in a struggle, I don't fault him for only suspending the guy 2 games.

And to answer your earlier question, Steve is pretty useless, but that jerkoff sitting next to him, Skip Bayless, is an absolute contemptible member of society. God he's annoying. I don't watch much ESPN, but I avoid that d-bag.