LMAO ! Wife beating is more acceptable by people who live in big city ???
Using his wife's words to justify or minimize what he did is simply colluding in a culture of violence towards women. Do you have any idea how normal it is for battered spouses to defend their spouses to the outside, out of fear, shame, or ambivalence? The first thing that being the target of domestic violence teaches you is that you are not safe if you speak out, that it's more important to protect your partner's reputation than it is to be an environment where physical violence is a constant threat hanging over your head.
Ray Rice has already gotten paid millions and millions of dollars to play a sport. Don't waste time feeling sorry for him. Consider also that he would not even have suffered this punishment had his crime not, for once, been captured on video. This stuff happens all the time and fans enable it by doing their level best to look the other way.
Don't look the other way. Don't make excuses for a wife-beater.
was only looking at it as helping to promote the "Violence against Women's" cause. Nothing more. Public needs to understand that loosing a job because of this will hurt the entire family and every other family in a similar position. we need to find another way to deal with it
All about the Benjamins.
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You could apply that philosophy to anything ugly.
IE: Let’s not kill ISIS terrorists, their families need providers.
I understand your point of view, but the way to “deal with it” isn’t to let the abuser off the hook, sweep it under the carpet, and pretend it never happened. That is never the answer. This is actually a situation where Rice’s loss of job won’t tear apart the family – they are rich! Let’s see Rice make charitable contributions to battered women’s shelters. Let’s see him do more than offer the rote garbage BS “apology” and actually take ownership of the trauma he’s inflicted on his wife. And let us not, by any means, disregard the NFL boycott, which would be a shameful black mark on the CFL. Beat your wife into unconsciousness and drag her through a casino? Blackballed by the NFL? No problem! Come up north and you’ll be on the field in no time. :oops: :thdn:
Allowing him to play in the CFL now though fits in nicely with the Liberal agenda here come to think of it. Hey, they asked Justin Trudeau about concussions in hockey, maybe the media should ask him about Ray Rice coming here and see what Canada's "official" policy is. Justin is next to the Almighty in Canada right now (although Rona Ambrose's popularity went up in the polls I see after criticizing the recent budget highlights) so what he says about sport is very, very important, obviously.
Doesn’t mean the NFL is right in how they deal with it. In fact, have they did much right in any of the other controversies they experience?
I will stick by my original thought that loosing a job over this is not the right way
If he is allowed to play in Canada, people like HfxTC will be saying the CFL is bush league and all of that for allowing this, reaching new levels of low. How important what people like HfxTC think though in this case is debatable. 
Ray Rice CFL bound ?................................NO THANKS !!!!!!!! :thdn: :thdn:
Ochochino??
Never, ever used that term here or anywhere in 10 years posting. But keep making shiat up.
far too many women continue to defend their abusers. No way of knowing if that might be the case here.
Hey Hf, how can you even be a fan of the CFL knowing, as you said below, the bar has been set so low with Tillman still employed in the league? You seem to be implying that if the CFL allowed Ray Rice to play but not the NFL, that that automatically makes the CFL “low barish” or really bush in your mind. Correct, not correct how I’m interpreting what you’re saying? What exactly does it mean when you say the bar has been set so low who cares and would you say that this makes the CFL more “low barish” than the NFL, allowing Tillman employment?
Not sure why anyone would want to do a favor for an American that sucker punched his wife to sleep. But if Tillman is allowed to work as a GM after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a minor, the bar has been set so low who cares really.
While I would have liked to see him land greater legal consequences for his actions I also believe in second chances. Just like a person who has done time in prison deserves a fair second chance and is hopefully rehabilitated from what got them there, so does a person who messed up like this and has undergone counseling.
Fair enough then let him get his fair second chance back in the… NFL…NOT… in the CFL
It’s getting a little monotonous lately constantly hearing every time a player from the NFL washes out for whatever reason that they should come up to Canada and play in the CFL to rejuvenate their careers and become instant Super Stars and dominate. It makes the league sound like some 3rd rate Beer League that will take on anybody because it’s desperate for attention and low on talent.Williams ,Sam, Ocho, TeBow, Manziel, Rice etc etc ENOUGH !!! Repeat after me…We the CFL are NOT a Charity League or dumping ground for washouts and screw ups from the NFL.
We didn’t need Williams, Sam or Ocho (all of them SUCKED up here)and we certainly don’t need the likes of a Rice or a TeBow or a Manziel up here either.
[b]bob82 wrote:[/b] We didn't need Williams, Sam or Ocho (all of them SUCKED up here)and we certainly don't need the likes of a Rice or a TeBow or a Manziel up here either.The problem is the CFL is better than they thought and to be very good up here in this league, you have to be committed to a high-level work ethic even if it's not the big major NFL. Have to be committed to be your very best. And that can be tough when you go from making millions to much much less or in Sam's case, thinking you are entitled to a spot because you got so much media attention in the NCAA and NFL for whatever reason.
Players coming here need to realize, and the smart ones do, you’re not going to get all the media attention that you did in the US playing football and you’re not going to get rich. And knowing that, can you be committed to work your butt off because you’ll have to to be good here.
First you don’t get to decide what a fan is or isn’t. I’m a fan of the game and of the players and some of the coaches. As for the CFL’s business practices they are poor to abysmal.
You go where opportunity is, or do you feel that they should stop trying to play because they have a big name attached to them? Whether you like it or not, the CFL is an easier place to land…so if you can’t land in the NFL you look here. Having some of these big names come here is not a bad thing…it is attention from south of the border that is good for the CFL, and honestly when one does NOT dominate that is GOOD for the CFL as it changes a lot of people’s opinions on it.
There have been tons of players who did not stick in the NFL but are starters and all-stars here…some just have big names attached to them.
But hey…I guess you are in the boat that media attention in the US is a bad thing.
[b]HfxTC wrote:[/b] First you don't get to decide what a fan is or isn't. I'm a fan of the game and of the players and some of the coaches. As for the CFL's business practices they are poor to abysmalFair enough.