On domestic violence, NFL uses NOW’s playbook

Published September 18, 2014 8:38pm ET



When NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell handed down a mere a two-game suspension for domestic violence, he took his cue from some of the very same women’s groups now calling for his head.

Goodell first suspended Ray Rice, a star player, for two games four months after Rice’s grand jury indictment for third-degree aggravated assault. A hotel video showing Rice dragging his then-fiancee’s limp body out of an elevator “went viral.” Rice reportedly admitted to Goodell that he punched her in the face, knocking her down. For this, Goodell suspended Rice just two games.

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