Don't let the NFL snow you about not getting the Ray Rice video.

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For one, they have many ex-law enforcement people on their payroll. They range from ex-FBI agents to police chiefs and more. Many of them have extensive contacts that they regularly use. It is bullshit that they couldn't get that video.

Everybody and gawd knew their was an elevator video. Casinos have more video cameras than chips. They see everything.

I hate that the video has put Janay back in the spotlight. However, it had to be shown. I watch ESPN and follow many people on Twitter. What I kept hearing after the first video was released was 'Well we don't know the whole story.' Rice's attorneys and even the Raven's GM hinted that there were two sides to the story. This gave rise to the meme that she did something horrible that nobody had seen yet.

Even after the elevator video was released, there are still people defending Rice. However, their numbers have shrunk. In addition, this wasn't a mistake. It was felony assault.

When the NFL and its teams gets ready to draft players, they pull out all the stops. They conduct investigations that would make the FBI look like amateurs. That's why it's total bullshit that they didn't see or get the video because of whatever.

I don't know what's worse. The NFL did see it and gave Rice only a 2 game suspension or that they never got it for whatever excuse they peddle.

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1. Great point about law enforcement contacts. Also...

So I saw the video of him dragging her out of the elevator. He admitted to hitting her. What the hell ELSE could have been on the latest video?

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2. Back in the 1980s, NASCAR's bigwigs hired dirty-as-hell NFL "doctor" Forrest Tennant

to dig up any kind of phony-baloney medical history disinformation on driver Tim Richmond, in an effort to banish him from racing in their organization. He had been diagnosed with AIDS, which of course still had tremendous stigma attached to it at that time, but they were trying to use drug addiction or whatever as their excuse for keeping him out.

Richmond eventually died a couple of years, but certainly could have continued to race before his health took a final turn for the worse. I've never forgiven those bastards, and was further disgusted that the NFL acted as gleeful accomplices in NASCAR's pathetic crusade. Proof that they would go to the ends of the earth to dig up whatever they needed to in the effort to "prove their case".

K&R.