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If Rice is cleared, both by the league and the court, he should be allowed to play again.
I'd like to make MY opinion of this supposition known. Rice is already convicted in the court of public opinion. No one is unringing THAT bell. I also believe that the order of the objects in your sentence are backwards.If Rice is cleared by the courts, THEN he could be cleared by the league. I cannot fathom the first as a possibility BUT...NJ? criminal court? I trust nothing as far as anything related to municipalities or the state of New Jersey goes.
OK, let's make a very shaky assumption that ,somehow, Rice is cleared by the criminal court. Is Goodell then going to issue the edict that he be allowed to play in the NFL again? My point is, are we to assume all this will be happening in a vacuum? No Gloria Allreds waiting in the shadows with knives sharpened, waiting to strike? The PR hit will be incalculable.
I watch football to be entertained...not to sit through camera shots of protesters screaming for heads to roll , carrying billboards outside the stadiums of the NFL.Not to turn on the NFLN only to be treated to another in an interminable round table discussion of Ray Rice.
Here's what I think happens...Rice is adjudicated, pays his penalty and then applies for reinstatement. I think this will take some time, perhaps in time for training camps next summer. Some low profile,low media area like say, Jacksonville, takes a flier on him to see what he has left. Do I think the Broncos or the Seahawks or San Diego or Dallas or even the Jets/Giants invite him to camp? No. I have to see THAT to believe it. The Patriots????????????...c'mon, this is ridiculous.
I'd like to make MY opinion of this supposition known. Rice is already convicted in the court of public opinion. No one is unringing THAT bell. I also believe that the order of the objects in your sentence are backwards.If Rice is cleared by the courts, THEN he could be cleared by the league. I cannot fathom the first as a possibility BUT...NJ? criminal court? I trust nothing as far as anything related to municipalities or the state of New Jersey goes.
OK, let's make a very shaky assumption that ,somehow, Rice is cleared by the criminal court. Is Goodell then going to issue the edict that he be allowed to play in the NFL again? My point is, are we to assume all this will be happening in a vacuum? No Gloria Allreds waiting in the shadows with knives sharpened, waiting to strike? The PR hit will be incalculable.
I watch football to be entertained...not to sit through camera shots of protesters screaming for heads to roll , carrying billboards outside the stadiums of the NFL.Not to turn on the NFLN only to be treated to another in an interminable round table discussion of Ray Rice.
Here's what I think happens...Rice is adjudicated, pays his penalty and then applies for reinstatement. I think this will take some time, perhaps in time for training camps next summer. Some low profile,low media area like say, Jacksonville, takes a flier on him to see what he has left. Do I think the Broncos or the Seahawks or San Diego or Dallas or even the Jets/Giants invite him to camp? No. I have to see THAT to believe it. The Patriots????????????...c'mon, this is ridiculous.