Pro Football Talk reported on Friday that the Baltimore Ravens were preparing for a “major investigative story” about their mishandling of the Ray Rice domestic abuse situation.
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Well, here it is.
ESPN’s Don Van Natta Jr. and Kevin Van Valkenburg have exposed the Ravens for not being truthful about the availability of video that showed Rice knocking out his then-fiance. Baltimore maintained that they did not see such video until the public did in September, but Natta Jr. and Valkenburg are reporting that, in fact, the Ravens were aware of the video’s content and had access to it in soon after the incident occured.
"Just hours after running back Ray Rice knocked out his then-fiancée with a left hook at the Revel Hotel Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the Baltimore Ravens’ director of security, Darren Sanders, reached an Atlantic City police officer by phone. While watching surveillance video — shot from inside the elevator where Rice’s punch knocked his fiancée unconscious — the officer, who told Sanders he just happened to be a Ravens fan, described in detail to Sanders what he was seeing.Sanders quickly relayed the damning video’s play-by-play to team executives in Baltimore, unknowingly starting a seven-month odyssey that has mushroomed into the biggest crisis confronting a commissioner in the NFL’s 95-year history."
Huge bomb being dropped right now on OTL. Ravens allegedly had a cell phone copy of the elevator incident all along.
— Kristine Leahy (@KristineLeahy) September 19, 2014
This is an absolutely terrible look for the Ravens and one can assume there will be people fired within the organization. Roger Goodell has taken the bulk of the criticism for how this disaster was handled, but we’ll likely see even more vitriol shifted to the Ravens after this bombshell.
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