Did New York Giants and NFL Cover Up Physical Assault?

About a month ago, Josh Brown, Pro Bowl kicker for the New York Giants, was convicted by his ex Wife for assaulting her over twenty times. Now while there were some people who called him the worst man in the world for doing what he did, but for the most part, people were skeptical and merely claimed that she was likely trying to gain attention, despite the police showing up to their house multiple times. However, it has come to light recently that the NFL and the New York Giants botched the investigation into whether or not he did abuse his wife.

This is not the first time something like this has happened. Back in the summer of 2014, the NFL found out that former running back of the Baltimore Ravens, Ray Rice, dragged his sleeping fiancee out of an elevator. However, it was found out that he assaulted her at some point in the elevator, so he got slapped on the wrist with a two game suspension. However, when TMZ released video of him sucker punching her in the elevator, the NFL claimed that they had no idea that anything happened and they suspended Ray Rice for the rest of the regular season and he hasn't played since week 17 of the 2013 NFL season because the Ravens released Rice. However, it is hard to believe that the NFL had never seen the tape especially when it was likely seen by the police and they were likely trying to hide everything in order to not get Ray Rice in trouble.

During the 2014 season, a commercial was aired during NFL season showing current and former NFL players like Eli Manning and former NFL players like Cris Carter, Troy Vincent, and James Thrash talking about how abusing women was unacceptable. However, it is of my opinion that the NFL actually doesn't care that much about domestic abuse, they just made those statements to make people believe that they were making an effort to be ambassadors against it. As it stands, in the NFL, you can get suspended for four games for taking steroids, you can get suspended four games for smoking weed, and you can get suspended for four games for deflating the air out of footballs, but you get suspended for one game if you beat your girlfriend, wife, or significant others.

After the monkeys at the NFL investigated this case like they usually do by poking at it with a stick to see if it moves, it has come out that Josh Brown wrote multiple times in a journal about how he abused his wife Molly and that he has been abusing women and girls since he was seven years old. Not only this, but the NFL had to give his wife and family refuge from him because he was abusing her in Hawaii at the Pro Bowl. The NFL has lost all credibility because most of this could have been completely avoided if the NFL had done a proper investigation. Now, even though all of these admissions have come to light, Brown is on the exempt list, meaning that he can practice and get contracted money, but he cannot play until more comes to light. This even though the guy literally made admissions through his own journal.

This not only makes the NFL look bad, but also the New York Giants, whose owner Jon Mara has literally backed his abusive kicker despite knowing that the guy was doing it. Eli Manning was on those "Never Again" domestic abuse commercials, but he also backed the kicker too. If Josh Brown had been a practice squad player, he would have been released, but because he is actually a decent kicker, his case was ignored which brings even more credence to the fact that the NFL does not care if players beat their significant others. So while Colin Kaepernick continues to kneel during the national anthem and get ridiculed for it, these football players still beat their spouses and very few people care. Very sad that this has not been resolved by the league and even sadder that people turn the other cheek to abusers who help out their team.

Josh Brown, kicker for the New York Giants