Video of Ray Ray punching fiancee released by TMZ

[L.T. Fan]

Could be true. It's something we won't know.

 

[dallen]

Peter King is going with the Hostile defense. His source set him up as a joke I suppose

Peter King Issues Statement On His Ray Rice Reporting, Self-Immolates

One strange aspect of the ongoing Ray Rice fiasco is that the NFL is vigorously denying it ever saw a video of Rice beating his then-fiancée Janay Palmer in an elevator, flatly contradicting what top football reporters were saying both publicly and privately over the summer. As we and others have noted, foremost among those reporters was SI's Peter King, who wrote the following in July:

There is one other thing I did not write or refer to, and that is the other videotape the NFL and some Ravens officials have seen, from the security camera inside the elevator at the time of the physical altercation between Rice and his fiancée.​

How to square this with the NFL's insistence that it never saw the tape? Here's SI's Peter King, writing in his capacity as editor-in-chief of The MMBQ, to explain:

Earlier this summer a source I trusted told me he assumed the NFL had seen the damaging video that was released by TMZ on Monday morning of Rice slugging his then-fiancée, Janay Palmer, in an Atlantic City elevator. The source said league officials had to have seen it. This source has been impeccable, and I believed the information. So I wrote that the league had seen the tape. I should have called the NFL for a comment, a lapse in reporting on my part. The league says it has not seen the tape, and I cannot refute that with certainty. No one from the league has ever knocked down my report to me, and so I was surprised to see the claim today that league officials have not seen the tape.

I hope when this story is fully vetted, we all get the truth and nothing but the truth.​

This is an incredible statement. In the most generous gloss of it, King is admitting to having casually transformed a third party's assumption that the NFL had seen the video into a factual assertion that it had actually done so, and to having done this at a time when it was convenient to the NFL's interests for the public to think that league officials were diligently investigating the case against Rice. This is the sort of thing no college newspaper reporter would ever do, to say nothing of the best-connected reporter in the game. (A less generous reading suggests that King is covering for his source, which would be incredible in its own way.)

Not to worry, though: King sincerely hopes someone else will eventually get to the bottom of this, and maybe they will.

http://deadspin.com/peter-king-issues-statement-on-his-ray-rice-reporting-1632044670

 

[Cotton]

Great, now I have to find another RB for my FF team.

 

[Carp]

The Ravens are a pretty class organization...I think they definitely would have taken action had they seen this before.

 

[Texas Ace]

This is what I'm talking about.

Based on new evidence? That's just stupid.

You needed evidence to know he smacked the shit out of her?

What? Did the video of her lying unconscious coupled with his public admission that he struck not serve as enough evidence? Or maybe they thought he hugged her and she collapsed?

Goodell should catch a shit ton of heat for this lame ass excuse.

 

[Rev]

Great, now I have to find another RB for my FF team.

Good luck.

 

[boozeman]

The Ravens are a pretty class organization...I think they definitely would have taken action had they seen this before.

They are so classy they stood by a guy like Ray Lewis, who pretty much was involved in a murder.

 

[jsmith6919]

Great, now I have to find another RB for my FF team.

I'm wondering if they pick Williams up off our PS, also right after the Ravens released Rice the Niners released Lamichael James..odd timing

 

[Rev]

I'm wondering if they pick Williams up off our PS, also right after the Ravens released Rice the Niners released Lamichael James..odd timing

James asked for his release, though

 

[boozeman]

I'm wondering if they pick Williams up off our PS, also right after the Ravens released Rice the Niners released Lamichael James..odd timing

No doubt they are floating him, Jim to John.

 

[Carp]

This is what I'm talking about.

Based on new evidence? That's just stupid.

You needed evidence to know he smacked the shit out of her?

What? Did the video of her lying unconscious coupled with his public admission that he struck not serve as enough evidence? Or maybe they thought he hugged her and she collapsed?

Goodell should catch a shit ton of heat for this lame ass excuse.

The suspension was too short, but I don't believe they had this video. When I saw her being dragged out of the elevator I thought she might be drunk or something.

 

[jsmith6919]

James asked for his release, though

He had been asking for awhile though, either way one of those things where the timing makes you go hmm

 

[Carp]

They are so classy they stood by a guy like Ray Lewis, who pretty much was involved in a murder.

They are...the organization handles themselves well.

 

[jsmith6919]

No doubt they are floating him, Jim to John.

Only fair thing to do considering they gave them Boldin for a 6th

 

[dallen]

How fucking laughable now is this tweet from the Ravens?

Pure class

 

[p1_]

Ray Rice terminated. I certainly hope so.....

 

[Texas Ace]

Only fair thing to do considering they gave them Boldin for a 6th

Exactly.

I'm sure these are both merely coincidences.

 

[Rev]

Exactly.

I'm sure these are both merely coincidences.

Yeah because no other team can pickup James. Otherwise trade him to Baltimore for some scrub.

 

[hstour]

You can play as long as your talent level rises about the distraction level.

Guess Ray's doesn't rise above shitstorm....

 

[boozeman]