Ray Rice

In a Today Show interview, the wife of newly-reinstated NFL star Ray Rice discusses the Ravens' role in her press conference apology, and why she agreed to it.

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The odd story of the NFL, desperately trying to outrun the stigma of a mishandled case of intimate partner violence, and Rihanna, inextricably linked to a parallel scandal.

A Baltimore dealership, which initially refused to say it was standing by Rice, finally dropped him as an endorser after the Ravens cut his contract and the NFL suspended him for knocking out his fiancee.

Players can be suspended up to a year for pot, yet the Baltimore Ravens’ star running back was given a two-game suspension for assaulting his bride-to-be in a video that’s gone viral.

Before football fans get too sanctimonious about the Ray Rice wrist slap, they should worry about their complicity in football’s culture of violence.