We all knew the NFL was really the Neanderthal Football League.
But when Ray Rice punched his female companion and dragged her out of an elevator, who could have predicted it would be just one of many examples of players who take their game violence home with them.
You can go back to a player’s childhood to try to understand it all.
Or you can just step back a few years in college to see where a sense of power and entitlement was really instilled.
Just look at the young man who, last year in his freshman year, won the Heisman Trophy as the best college football player in America.
Last Tuesday, standing on a Florida State University dining hall table, Jameis Winston wasn’t striking a trophy pose. He was shouting out an obscene, internet-borne phrase to all who could hear him.
For that, FSU officials suspended him for the first half of the next game.
