Gloria Allred calls presser to detail another NFL abuse case

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Gloria Allred calls presser to detail another NFL abuse case

Posted by Darin Gantt on September 17, 2014, 1:41 PM EDT
Gloria Allred
AP
With a decision on Greg Hardy’s playing status imminent, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell might have thought he tied up all his domestic violence loose ends.

So naturally, another one is about to fray.

According to Mike Morris of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, attorney Gloria Allred has called a 3 p.m. press conference where she’ll discuss alleged incidents of abuse by another NFL player.

Allred said in a statement she would be joined by “two individuals who allege that they or a family member were victims of violence and abuse by an NFL player,” and that those two would “discuss how the NFL and Commissioner Goodell failed them.”

There was no information about the identity of the people who’d be talking, or who the player was.

You can practically hear the puckering in New York now.


http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...fl-abuse-case/

[loochy]

Originally Posted by Cunning Linguist

Yep, it's certainly not because women realize their are others out there who have experienced the same, and they are ready to stand against it with the support of others.

God, what do you guys get from shaming abuse victims? It's ****ing disturbing.

AMEN SISTER!

[Don Corlemahomes]

Originally Posted by WhiteWhale

You're up so high on your soapbox you're obviously not paying attention to what's going on around you. That's a pretty remarkable level of pomposity.

Nobody is shaming abuse victims. People are shaming Allred because she's a disgusting media whore.

The mesothelioma comment (wherein a lot of fake cases were brought to court) was made under the assumption this was a cash grab.

I would rather be empathetic and deemed pompous than utterly clueless.

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by Marcellus

Abuse at the hands of an NFL player is the new Mesothelioma.

You will start seeing commercials soon.

"Have you or a loved one been abused by an NFL player? If so you may be entitled to a settlement".

When I was a teenager and Tony Gonzalez was a rookie, I asked him for his autograph. He said, "Get lost, kid."

[Discuss Thrower]

Unless these two victims can definitively point to Goodell having knowledge of abuse in this particular case and did nothing about it, I fail to see why it's the NFL's problem and why a presser needs to be called.

[blaise]

Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower

Unless these two victims can definitively point to Goodell having knowledge of abuse in this particular case and did nothing about it, I fail to see why it's the NFL's problem and why a presser needs to be called.

It's called so Gloria Allred can get a camera on her. That's it.

[Ming the Merciless]

Originally Posted by SNR

When I was a teenager and Tony Gonzalez was a rookie, I asked him for his autograph. He said, "Get lost, kid."

when dale carter was a rookie, i sent him a rare hologram card to sign, a letter explaiming how much i was glad he was a chief and how bad ass i thought he was, AND A SASE so he could send me my card back, autographed....

he didnt send my card back


ever

[ptlyon]

Originally Posted by Pawnmower

when dale carter was a rookie, i sent him a rare hologram card to sign, a letter explaiming how much i was glad he was a chief and how bad ass i thought he was, AND A SASE so he could send me my card back, autographed....

he didnt send my card back


ever

What have you learned from this?

[ToxSocks]

I don't know much about Gloria Allred other than her face looks like it's been domestically abused.

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

I love it.

You want to jump in bed with the progressive police?

Good. Now eat your shit sandwich.

Keep 'em coming.

[Don Corlemahomes]

Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower

Unless these two victims can definitively point to Goodell having knowledge of abuse in this particular case and did nothing about it, I fail to see why it's the NFL's problem and why a presser needs to be called.

This is a good point.

[ARROW2]

Originally Posted by Pawnmower

when dale carter was a rookie, i sent him a rare hologram card to sign, a letter explaiming how much i was glad he was a chief and how bad ass i thought he was, AND A SASE so he could send me my card back, autographed....

he didnt send my card back


ever

His wife's parked car (parking brake apparently was not set) once ran into mine.....Damn was she fine.......as a mutha****a!!!! I wanted her.....badly....don't judge me.....


My bad, it was Albert Lewis........can't get that visual out of my mind....damn

[InChiefsHeaven]

A little perspective:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/t...g-nfl-players/

Although there seems to be an endless stream of stories about NFL player arrests and misconduct, this is largely because there are a lot of NFL players (and they’re famous). At the league’s peak (during training camps), there are about 2,560 players attached to NFL teams (limit 80 each). As I’ll show, arrest rates among NFL players are quite low compared to national averages for men in their age range — but there are some types of crimes that trail the pack significantly.

This data was tricky to work with. For NFL arrests, the most comprehensive source I could find was the USA Today NFL Arrests Database, which goes back to 2000 and is updated through the present (I calculated rates based on the 2,560 players per year estimate). For national arrest trends, I used the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ Arrest Data Analysis Tool to find the arrest rates per 100,000 for the male population in the 25-to-29 age group (this group is the most similar to the NFL as a whole, where the average team age varies from 25 to 27 years old). The difficulty is that the two sources code offenses differently, so I had to make several grouping choices. There’s a full explanation of my methodology at the end of this piece.

As you would expect from a much more affluent group (e.g. the poverty rate among NFL players is zero), NFL players have much lower arrest rates than average — basically across the board:

The most common arrests among the general public are for drug-related offenses and DUIs. The most common among NFL players is DUI, with assault a distant second. Overall, NFL players’ arrest rate is just 13 percent of the national average. But this isn’t distributed evenly across crimes in the slightest:

[ToxSocks]

Originally Posted by 505 Chief

I love it.

You want to jump in bed with the progressive police?

Good. Now eat your shit sandwich.

Keep 'em coming.

Good point. They really did bring this on themselves.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by Pawnmower

when dale carter was a rookie, i sent him a rare hologram card to sign, a letter explaiming how much i was glad he was a chief and how bad ass i thought he was, AND A SASE so he could send me my card back, autographed....

he didnt send my card back


ever

Christian Okoye told him not to send it back.

[Ming the Merciless]

Originally Posted by ptlyon

What have you learned from this?

I learned in like '92 what people would come to know later:

dale carter is a jerk