Why is Everyone Shocked About Rice?

People are stupid.

How else can you explain the huge story that rages on this week about Ray Rice. 

We got ten extra seconds of video from TMZ about Ray Rice and that unfortunate incident with his wife back in February, and suddenly, the whole world changed!  For Rice.  For his wife.  For the Ravens.  For the Ravens fans.  For football fans.  And most importantly, for victims of domestic violence.

Don’t get my point wrong folks.  I am not saying that this is unfortunate for Rice and that I am saying this weeks news minimizes things for victims of domestic violence.  My point it that the outrage everyone is feeling this week should have been felt when news first came out MONTHS AGO about Rice hitting his wife.

We are such of a visual society aren’t we?  What happened this week proves that.  We don’t believe ANYTHING unless we see it with our own eyes!  If I don’t see it, it didn’t happen.  That is how most of us obviously look at things in our world.

I’m not talking about the average person here either.  I am talking about dozens and dozens of people who should have known better from the start.  

The Ravens organization, who soldiered up for Ray Rice, and supported him during “this tough time”, and pledged their unwavering support for one of their own, who is dealing with a tough situation.

The national media, who covered the story, showed the video and somehow, still focused on how this will affect the Ravens, and what Rice’s fantasy stock is, and showed his apology in his press conference about the event.

The NFL and Roger Goodell, who “punished” Rice with a debilitating TWO GAME SUSPENSION for the event.  The incident where Rice had domestic violence with his wife, and was seen dragging her out of an elevator like a caveman dragging his kill back to the fire.  Meanwhile, Josh Gordon, who smoked a little pot and got caught for it, gets a full season suspension.  Wes Welker downs some cold medicine and gets four games.  Same for Matt Prater.  And so on and so on and so on….

To his credit, Roger Goodell came out to the media last week and admitted that he made a mistake in the Ray Rice situation.  He did so before the shit hit the fan, saying that two games was not anywhere close enough to what Rice should have gotten.

Now, days after that admission, ten extra seconds of video came out, and Ray Rice now has an INDEFINATE suspension from Goodell and the NFL.  He was fired in essence, by the Ravens and the NFL.  He can’t work his craft for the Ravens, or any other team in the NFL.  

Where was this months ago?

People are stupid.

Now, all of the media are questioning why the NFL never saw a 2nd tape.  Did the NFL or the Ravens see the 2nd tape before this week?

It’s all BS.  That shouldn’t matter.

This is all because of ratings.  This is all about “THE STORY”.  This all should have happned months ago.

When the Ray Rice story first broke early in the spring that a tape of Rice dragging his unconscious wife out of an elevator at a casino hotel, everyone should have done what they did this week.

Just because you had a tape of the aftermath and not the actual tape of the violence, shouldn’t have mattered in this situation.  What did everone think….that the “Casino Elevator Ghost” took a sledgehammer to Janay Rice that night?  Did they think that Janay Rice decided to push the hotel floor elevator button with her nose and lost her balance?  Did they think she tripped over Ray Rice’s giant running back feet getting into the elevator and banged her head into the elevator wall?  

No, SHE WAS UNCONSCIOUS!!!!  Even if ANY of those things happened, chances are, she WOULDN’T BE UNCONSCIOUS!!!  She wouldn’t have had to be DRAGGED out of the elevator!  I mean, C’MON!  Have a little grasp of reality here folks.  Smart folks, who should have known better.  

You have two people who go into an elevator in a casino hotel high rise.  One comes out of the elevator dragging the other one….what do you think happened?  Sheesh, it should not have taken a swami to figure that out!

The bottom line is that so many people got this wrong from the start.  The NFL got it worng…. BADLY.   The sports media got it wrong….BADLY.  

Now, Ray Rice and his brand new wife Janay have to start out their new marriage….BADLY.  

I feel sorry for them actually.  After the incident, Janay actually went through with the wedding, marrying Ray Rice, the NFL running back, who made millions doing his job.  Now, because of this incident on video caught on tape, Rice is out of football.  Can this loving couple make it work, with all this media crush on them and now, with Rice losing his considerable salary?  

I take that back….I feel sorry for Janay.  Not Ray.  

He deserves everything he is getting now and should have gotten months ago.

She deserves much better.  

We all need to learn from this.  The bottom line is that PUTTING YOUR HANDS ON A WOMAN IS WRONG!!!   Hitting a woman for any reason is wrong!  

I know this.  Most of you guys know this.  Hopefully, the rest of you guys who didn’t know this will now learn it.  Ray Rice better learn it, because now that he doesn’t have the protection of the NFL, if he does it again, it’s serious jail time, which will be well deserved.   And there won’t be any media coverage.