Ray Rice: CFL says they will honor the NFL suspension of former Ravens running back
By Jack Crosby
As it stands at the moment, Ray Rice is out of the job. On Monday morning we were unfortunately treated to some gruesome video evidence of Rice striking his fiance on that fateful night earlier this year in an Atlantic City Hotel. Just hours later, the Baltimore Ravens announced that they were terminating Rice’s contract, and then it was later announced that the NFL was suspending him indefinitely.
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But that doesn’t necessarily mean that he can’t play football altogether. Generally when a player has a problem with the NFL, they will seek work up north in the Canadian Football League, which you would think could be an option for the troubled former NFL star.
Well it would be an option, had the Canadian Football League not decided recently that they don’t want anything to do with him either.
According to ESPN, the CFL has announced that they will honor the suspension handed down by the NFL on Monday, and will not allow Rice on anyone of their fields.
JUST IN: The @CFL announces it will honor the NFL's suspension of Ray Rice. He will not be allowed to play in the CFL
— NFL on ESPN (@ESPNNFL) September 8, 2014
Rice, given the transgression that got him into this mess in the first place, is being completely blackballed from the game of football, and deservedly so.