re: Lets be Commissioner: Rank and hammer the 4 tPOS NFL players

I think the outrage over the incident was greatly magnified because of a sense that a non violent drug offense (which offers no performance advantage and therefore is not a separate competitive issue) was being punished very heavily while Rice treated his SO like Tina Turner on her first honeymoon.

There was going to be outrage over a football beating his gf/wife - but what made it worse was the arbitrary and comparatively lower punishment doled out in that case versus another - or put another way the NFL got in trouble mostly because they didn't have a carefully thought out or systematic methodology.