Greg Oden arrested for assault

[Roy H.]

Ray Rice, by the way, knocked out his girlfriend in a casino at 2 in the morning and was caught on video dragging her unconscious body into and out of an elevator.

While I understand that the NFL stands to make a lot more money by having Ray Rice on the field for the Ravens than they do someone like Justin Blackmon catching balls for the Jags, the idea that a two game suspension is in anyway sufficient is insane, and proof that the NFL simply is too big to care about its fanbase. We've all known that for years, though.

That was my first inclination, too, but there's unfortunately not a lot of precedent for long suspensions in any of the major sports related to domestic violence.

Rice got suspended for 1/8th of the season, plus will miss another game check.  That's the equivalent of suspending an NBA player 10 games, plus fining him the equivalent of five more games.  There hasn't been close to that type of suspension before.  Similarly, in baseball, I don't think there's ever been a Commissioner sanction toward a player, and the longest suspension I could find was 7 games.

I agree that more severely suspending players for recreational drug use than for for punching their wives into unconsciousness is a joke, but unfortunately, it's not just the NFL that has a blind eye toward this stuff.

[SHAQATTACK]

Allegedly he hit his ex-girlfriend.  Hopefully this can end the "sign Greg Oden" threads we see annually.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2014/08/07/greg-oden-arrested-for-battery-after-altercation-with-ex-girlfriend-in-indianapolis/

Agree ....good post OP ....Oden thing just gets on my nerves .....sorta wish he'd just disappear

[Celtics4ever]

She could have kicked him in the knees and his career would have been over.  Oh wait, his career is over.

[dark_lord]

scumbag

[mgent]

Ray Rice, by the way, knocked out his girlfriend in a casino at 2 in the morning and was caught on video dragging her unconscious body into and out of an elevator.

While I understand that the NFL stands to make a lot more money by having Ray Rice on the field for the Ravens than they do someone like Justin Blackmon catching balls for the Jags, the idea that a two game suspension is in anyway sufficient is insane, and proof that the NFL simply is too big to care about its fanbase. We've all known that for years, though.

That was my first inclination, too, but there's unfortunately not a lot of precedent for long suspensions in any of the major sports related to domestic violence.

Rice got suspended for 1/8th of the season, plus will miss another game check.  That's the equivalent of suspending an NBA player 10 games, plus fining him the equivalent of five more games.  There hasn't been close to that type of suspension before.  Similarly, in baseball, I don't think there's ever been a Commissioner sanction toward a player, and the longest suspension I could find was 7 games.

I agree that more severely suspending players for recreational drug use than for for punching their wives into unconsciousness is a joke, but unfortunately, it's not just the NFL that has a blind eye toward this stuff.

When you put it like this it makes a lot of sense.  If we're talking about hurting people, JR Smith only got 7 games for killing a person.  I think we can all agree that habitual reckless driving which can kill little children is a little worse than hitting women.

Basically, unless you are hurting spectators and threatening ticket sales, it's not a big enough deal for them to hand out lengthy suspensions (although then you get 90 games).