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Fern Modena said:
I don't know, I wasn't there. Did they ever interview the hotel security or whoever that was at the elevator when the doors opened? Or anybody else there?

Why are you defending him? :::sigh:::

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We'll the hotel handed oover the outside the elevator footage so you have to say yes to the interview question.

Now why only half the footage discovered. Or was half suppressed? We will never know.
 
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Honestly, I'm at the point where I think that the only thing which will make a difference in this country's professional sports culture is a country-wide boycott of every professional sports event for a period of one full year.
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I thought more about your post and there is a lot of truth about that sports "culture" and the sense of being "above the rules" may be in play here in this matter. Football could be the worst sport, though basketball may not be far behind. The kids grow up as rock stars. Who knows what they got away with during their younger days just because they carried the local high school football team to the state championship. Most are probably just fine, but many players probably just let it all go to their heads and feel they can do anything they want. It may not even be a conscious thing with them.
 
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SueDonJ said:
Honestly, I'm at the point where I think that the only thing which will make a difference in this country's professional sports culture is a country-wide boycott of every professional sports event for a period of one full year. It's too late to begin 1/1/15 with season tickets already sold for this year, but a concentrated effort to make it happen 1/1-12/31/16 would make me very happy. Even then they'd rake in some income because some ticket packages are multi-year, but it's a start. Hit them all in their wallets because they all are responsible for the culture - it's the only thing that matters. It'll never happen, though - most diehards won't let it. (I'm a diehard baseball fan, not football, but would participate in an all-sports boycott. They all have culpability.)
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You should carry your boycott out to all adult men between the ages of 20-35 because statistically that peer group in the general population are involved in more crimes then professional athletes.

http://deadspin.com/what-do-arrests-data-really-say-about-nfl-players-and-c-733301399

There are 2.5 times as many NFL players as MLB players and 5 times as many compared to NBA players. So statistically there are naturally going to be more NFL players arrested.

Professional athletes are very high profile. Anything they do wrong is going to be highly publicized. Meanwhile if Joe Shmo did the same thing in that casino elevator nobody in the media would care.

These are societal issues and not in any way just limited to professional athletes.
 
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SueDonJ said:
Honestly, I'm at the point where I think that the only thing which will make a difference in this country's professional sports culture is a country-wide boycott of every professional sports event for a period of one full year.
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But your basic cable bill write pro sports $5-15 a month also.
 
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Watch: James Brown Delivers a Message on Domestic Violence to Football Fans - by Jonathan Cohn/ Domestic Violence/ newrepublic.com

"Last night the Baltimore Ravens played a football game. It was the Thursday night game, which meant CBS Sports was televising it nationally, and the league had lined up Rihanna to perform. It had all the makings of a spectacle that would be cringe-inducing at best and outrage-producing at worst.

It turned out to be neither. CBS producers had the good sense to dispense with the usual pregame festivities and analysis, replacing them with hard news analysis—including CBS News correspondents—about the Ray Rice story. As Matt Wilstein at Mediaite put it, the broadcast “felt more like 60 Minutes than Thursday Night Football.”

But the best part—and, ultimately, the most important part—came at the end. That’s when James Brown, the well-known anchor for CBS Sports, offered his own commentary, directly into the camera: ..."


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MULTIZ321 said:
Watch: James Brown Delivers a Message on Domestic Violence to Football Fans - by Jonathan Cohn/ Domestic Violence/ newrepublic.com

"Last night the Baltimore Ravens played a football game. It was the Thursday night game, which meant CBS Sports was televising it nationally, and the league had lined up Rihanna to perform. It had all the makings of a spectacle that would be cringe-inducing at best and outrage-producing at worst.

It turned out to be neither. CBS producers had the good sense to dispense with the usual pregame festivities and analysis, replacing them with hard news analysis—including CBS News correspondents—about the Ray Rice story. As Matt Wilstein at Mediaite put it, the broadcast “felt more like 60 Minutes than Thursday Night Football.”

But the best part—and, ultimately, the most important part—came at the end. That’s when James Brown, the well-known anchor for CBS Sports, offered his own commentary, directly into the camera: ..."


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Oh yes, I like JB and I like to think he did some good.

Victim-blaming has to stop, the folks that do the violence are the ones that need to change. This starts with the young men in high school getting away with crap because they are sports heroes or their dad is important in their town, moves on thru the college years where the money impacts are larger and on into the pros where it's big money.

Rules apply to all of us, there is no excuse for bad behavior. No one is that special.

Hard to believe that Michael Vick's animal abuse was seen as worse than beating up significant-other Humans that happen to be female.
 
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