Ray Rice news continues to dominate sports talk over the past weeks. The Baltimore Ravens running back has been suspended indefinitely by the NFL following TMZ's release of the hotel video where he was seen punching and knocking out her girlfriend, Janay Palmer. The Ray Rice saga is showing no signs of stopping and it is getting uglier each day with new information being released.
In a report by ESPN's Don Van Natta Jr, it is found out that long before NFL commissioner Roger Goodell requested and received the surveillance video from the Atlantic City hotel where the incident took place, the 27-year old player has already admitted to the top league official about his wrong doing.
"Ray didn't lie to the commissioner," one source with knowledge of the meeting told Van Natta Jr. "He told the full truth to Goodell -- he made it clear he had hit her, and he told Goodell he was sorry and that it wouldn't happen again."
Natta Jr's source said that Rice admitted the truth and what the NFL is doing to the Rutgers University standout is 'public lynching.'
Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome also confirmed that Ray Rice indeed came out clean to him before seeing the video surveillance.
"Ray had given a story to John [Harbaugh] and I. And what we saw on the video was what Ray said. Ray didn't lie to me. He didn't lie to me."
The public, especially Baltimore Ravens fans are skeptic about the way NFL handles the Ray Rice incident.
While most people think that Ray Rice's suspension has served him right, Ravens fans, most of them women, remained on the side of the embattled running back. They even expressed words of encouragement to the player tagged as abusive and criminal. Many of them came wearing Rice's Baltimore Ravens jersey.
One thinks that Rice should not be condemned that hard because abuse can go both ways.
“I’m making a statement,” one fan, named Kathy, told Fox Sports’ Mike Garafolo. “I don’t believe in domestic violence, but I will say: any woman who can hit a man, a man shouldn’t have to sit there and take the abuse. The abuse goes both ways.
“As a woman, she shouldn’t have hit him. If I hit you, I would expect you to hit me back. And that’s just how that goes.”
Another fan, named Tina Gavan, insists that Rice is a decent guy.
"I think what he did was really bad, really bad. ... it just seems that from everything I've seen up to this point, he seems to be a genuinely decent human being. That screwed up big time.
One male also argued that these Ray Rice news and attention is way too much as there are other players who did worse than him.
“There’s players that have done worse than Rice did and they’re still playing. I feel like what he was kicked out for wasn’t right.”
