What did the NFL know and when did it know it?

Who all saw this video before today? When did they see it? Did the NFL use it to determine Rice’s two-game suspension?

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Privately, top reporters were told in no uncertain terms that the video existed, that the NFL had seen it, that it showed Janay Palmer acting violently toward Rice, and that, if released, it would go some way toward mitigating the anger against him.

But today the NFL has said no one in the league office has ever seen the video which surfaced today.

So who’s lying? All those reporters who said the NFL saw the tape back in July? The NFL at the time, in order to make Ms. Palmer look bad? Or the NFL now, when it says no one ever saw it? Only by saying that can it possibly excuse its obvious failure to punish Rice and its attempt to damage Ms. Palmer’s reputation (see above: “it showed Janay Palmer acting violently toward Rice”).

Read the rest and see the supporting evidence at the link above.