The National Football League (NFL) is back with all the exciting plays, big hits, close calls, and nail-biting games that put you on the edge of your seat. But for one team, it seems like all the attention is not on the team but solely on one of their players, their star running back Ray Rice. In a league like the NFL with so many superstars, it is usually good for the whole league along with basically the whole world knowing a player’s name but this time it’s different.
If you haven’t heard, Ray Rice has been cut by his team the Baltimore Ravens (my favorite team) and suspended indefinitely (which means that the suspension has no end) by the NFL. Fans may be wondering what he did to get this punishment. As he and his then-fiancé were exiting a nightclub, a video shows him dragging his unconscious fiancé. Rumors speculated about him beating her up, but nothing was confirmed until more details came out a couple of weeks ago claiming that he did beat her up and that’s why she was being drug out of the elevator. However, that was just someone’s word until last week when TMZ released a video of him and her inside the elevator having an argument and things got out of hand. She shoved him and he punched her square in the face. Rice’s original sentence was indefinite suspension, but now his suspension may be appealed because she did not press charges. Since she did not press charges, he might be released from his suspension which is making people angry. In my opinion, there needs to be some type of punishment because an athlete should not be able to mistreat his girlfriend or spouse and still be able to play football.