EOC Week 9: Sexual Harassment and the NFL

The whole incident in the NFL and Ray Rice beating his girlfriend and now wife is upsetting, and I believe Ray Rice deserves to be put on suspension for a couple games. "The NFL goes to great lengths to preserve the image and integrity of the game, whether it's personal conduct or protecting competitive balance." Ultimately The NFL has a contract before you enter into the game that you must sign. So Ray Rice new what he was getting into, and he should have thought about his consequences before he decided to knock out his girlfriend in a public elevator on video camera.
"As an employee of the NFL or a member club, you are held to a higher standard and expected to conduct yourself in a way that is responsible, promotes the values upon which the League is based, and is lawful."  If you think about it the NFL's HR did not just put this in a contract for no reason. They understand that these people are public figures and public figures if you do not give them any consequences may get carried away and start to think they can just go around and hit and punch and treat others any way they want. This was what RIce had to say when news of the suspension came out.  "As I said earlier, I failed in many ways. But, Janay and I have learned from this. We have become better as a couple and as parents. I am better because of everything we have experienced since that night."