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Originally Posted by GirlySports

But didn't the NFL get their cronies in the media (ie King and Mortensen) to say back in July that the NFL had seen everything and it was a mitigating factor in the 2 game suspension?

The NFL's position is unattainable. Either they lied back in July or they lied yesterday.

Yeah, the article (written May 24) that Clay Davis posted , has this quote:

The lawyer also implied strongly that, as previously reported elsewhere, video of the punch from Rice exists. If the case had been litigated, the video would have eventually been made public. With the video of Rice dragging a mostly-unconscious Janay out of an elevator doing major damage to Rice’s reputation, video of Rice throwing a knockout blow to a woman possibly would have killed it.

It’s now clear that Rice opted to enter into the diversionary program both to prevent the video from ever coming out (there’s a chance it still will) and to avoid having to embarrass Janay by highlighting her own behavior in the hopes of excusing his.