Roger Goodell, the NFL commissioner, admitted last week he got it wrong with Ray Rice. Now, with the release of a new video on TMZ.com showing what really happened that night in an elevator in the Revel casino in Atlantic City, we found out exactly how wrong Goodell got it. Once and for all we see Rice's girlfriend, now his wife, coming at him and see him snapping her head back with the kind of left hook that Joe Frazier threw at Muhammad Ali in their first fight at the Garden.
Rice originally got two games from the league for that. He needs to get a lot more. He is one who needs to get hit much harder now. And if Rice then wants to sue the league over that, let the guy in the new video go ahead and see how that works out for him.
The league issued this statement on Monday morning. "We requested from law enforcement any and all information about the incident, including the video from inside the elevator. That video was not made available to us and no one in our office has seen it until today," the NFL said in its statement.
And of course we have already seen the aftermath of what happened inside the elevator, Rice essentially dragging Janay Palmer out and into the hall.
This was all before Rice and Janay Palmer were married, before his public mea culpa with her sitting behind him and before Rice met with the media in training camp and refused, when asked a direct question by Sal Paolantonio of ESPN, about what had happened before the elevator doors opened. This was before Rice told us about counseling and how he's a better person now.
He may be. It is clear from the new video that Rice and Janay Palmer were arguing before they got into the elevator, you can see her giving him a quick shove. You see her come at him in the elevator. But he wasn't defending himself. He reacted by throwing a left hook that snapped her head back and put her down and she is lucky and so is he that he didn't do more damage to her than he did.
Everybody gets a clear picture now, even on grainy security video, of the violence in domestic violence in this case. The whole world is aware by now of the way Goodell got it in the media and from women's groups and advocacy groups for going too easy on Rice. What we are going to find out, starting right now, is why the law of Atlantic City, N.J. did the same with Ray Rice.
Goodell can't do anything about Jersey prosecutors. What he can do now is announce the obvious: That he now has new evidence in the Ray Rice case and that he has decided to triple his original suspension of Rice, give him five more games on top of the game he served on Sunday in the opening weekend of the NFL season.
When he announced new sanctions Goodell admitted that he "didn't get it right" with Rice. So he can get it right today.
It sure does go down in the elevator! Don't it!
Here's a tip! The next time your arguing with a mofo catch the next one!
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