Now that the Ray Rice Elevator video has exposed the NFL for looking the other way, we have The NFLs Most Shocking Headlines!
Football fans and Domestic Violence victims have been weighing in left and right since the Ray Rice video has shown the world how he knocked out his now wife in Atlantic City. Ray Rice’s elevator video is the MOST disturbing and violent act to plague the NFL for 2014.
Now CelebNMusic247.com has put together a list of the NFLs Most Shocking Headlines that INFURIATED football fans.
11. Adam “Pacman” Jones was suspended for the 2007 season, losing a total of $1.3 million in salary, for repeated violations of the NFL’s personal conduct policy.
Including an altercation in a strip club when he allegedly pulled a dancer off stage and attacked a security guard, who was later shot by a member of his entourage and paralyzed from the waist down. Jones was charged with one count of felony coercion, one misdemeanor count of battery and one misdemeanor count of threat to life. He later signed with the Dallas Cowboys but was again involved in an incident with his bodyguard at a Dallas hotel.
10. Ben Roethlisberger was suspended without pay for the first six games of the 2010 season for violation of the NFL’s 
personal conduct policy.
It came after “Big Ben” was accused of sexual assault on two separate occasions by different women. Charges were later dropped, but Steelers owner Art Rooney was reportedly “furious” at his star player.
9. Michael Vick was implicated in an illegal interstate dog fighting ring that had operated for five years.
The quarterback pleaded guilty in 2007 and served 21 months in prison for the crimes against canines at Bad Newz Kennels, and has since returned to the field with the Philadelphia Eagles and the New York Jets.
8. Donte Stallworth’s darkest hour came in March 2009 when he hit and killed a pedestrian while driving on a Miami Beach causeway in the early hours of the morning.
Stallworth had a 0.12 alcohol level and tested positive for marijuana, leading to a charge of DUI manslaughter. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail, 1,000 hours of community service and eight years probation, along with settling a civil case with the victim’s family.
7. Aldon Smith of the San Francisco 49ers was arrested for DUI in 2012 and then received stab wounds that June when a fight broke out at his house party, during which two other people were shot.
Next up was crash when he was allegedly under the influence of marijuana, and finally this year a bizarre event at Los Angeles airport when he allegedly told a TSA agent that he had a bomb. Smith is sitting out for the first nine games of the 2014 season.
6. Ray Lewis and two of his colleagues were indicted for a January 2000 murder that occurred after a fight at a Super Bowl party.
The Baltimore Ravens linebacker negotiated a plea deal and got 12-month probation and $250,000 fine, and even went on to win another Super Bowl. His companions, Reginald Oakley and Joseph Sweeting, were later acquitted and the killer has never been found.
5. Dez Bryant’s troubled childhood included his mother being arrested for dealing crack cocaine when he was 8.
Their relationship remained volatile, and in July 2012 the Dallas Cowboys wide receiver was arrested after allegedly hitting her in the face during an argument. He later went through counseling and told a Dallas Men Against Abuse event, “I’m done with domestic abuse.”
4. Chad Johnson and “Basketball Wives” star Evelyn Lozada’s 2010 reality TV wedding was marred when the former wide receiver was arrested a month later for domestic battery for allegedly head-butting his new wife.
Lozada quickly filed for divorce and Johnson avoided jail time with a year-long probation, but was fired by the Miami Dolphins in an embarrassing stand-off that aired on HBO’s “Hard Knocks.”
3. Ray Rice made headlines in 2014 when he knocked out his now wife in a casino elevator in Atlantic City.
The NFL commissioner looked the other way claiming he did not see the actual video and only suspended the Baltimore Ravens player for only the first two games of the 2014/15 season. After the video was exposed on TMZ Sports, Rice and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell were put under investigation. Ray’s contract was terminated by the Ravens and he was suspended by the NFL indefinitely. His wife Janay Rice has gone on record defending him.
2. After signing a five-year, $40 million contract extension with the New England Patriots, Aaron Hernandez had a spectacular fall from grace in June 2013, when his friend Odin Lloyd was fatally shot and his body dumped in an industrial park near the tight end’s Massachusetts home.
Hernandez was subsequently charged with first-degree murder and later indicted for a 2012 double-murder. He was quickly dropped by the Patriots and is currently in prison awaiting trial, facing life without parole.
1. The NFL’s most-notorious defendant, OJ Simpson went from being a Pro Bowl quarterback and “Naked Gun” star to being America’s most wanted when he came the prime suspect for the brutal 1994 murders of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.
Following the “trial of the century,” the former Buffalo Bills and San Francisco 49ers player was acquitted, but is currently serving time in a Nevada prison for armed robbery and kidnapping.
What do you think of these men? Do they deserve to be in the NFL? Which of these men do you believe have cleaned up their life to do right and earn their way back in the NFL?
Fame isn’t for everyone and finding that right balance in ones personal life alongside NFL fame can sometimes be too hard and the pressure makes one snap.
While others need to step away from their past and change their ways when blessed with a chance to play in the NFL. Respect for one self, the league, the players, the money and family is most important, but these days players seem to have forgotten the basics.
There has been more violence and murder in the past decade then in the 90s with the OJ Simpson murders which still holds #1, but Aaron Hernandez is a close second and that is NOTHING to be proud of.
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