To Fight Domestic Violence, NFL Adds Female Consultants, CBS Subtracts Rihanna Song

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CNN: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell will work with four women "on the development and implementation of the league's policies, resources and outreach on issues of domestic violence and sexual assault," according to a memo Goodell sent to the league's teams...Fourteen players have been arrested for violence against women in the last two years...

• Anna Isaacson...will now be vice president of social responsibility;

• Lisa Friel, former head of the sex crimes prosecution unit in the New York County District Attorney's Office;

• Jane Randel, the co-founder of NO MORE, which aims to "raise the profile of and normalize the conversation about domestic violence and sexual assault";

• Rita Smith, the former executive director of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

"Vice president of social responsibility?" Sounds like more token window dressing. Or will they have the power to advocate for the owners paying their fare share of taxes and better salaries for the cheerleaders, too?

Uproxx: ...CBS...(made a) last minute decision...to pull Jay Z’s “Run This Town,” a song...Rihanna (is) featured on, from last week’s “Thursday Night Football” pregame show...(They) felt it wouldn’t be wise to air a song featuring a victim of domestic violence given the current circumstances....

“It’s important to realize we are not overreacting to this story but it is as big a story as has faced the NFL,” (says CBS Sports chairman Sean) McManus...“We thought journalistically and from a tone standpoint, we needed to have the appropriate tone and coverage. A lot of the production elements we wanted in the show are being eliminated because of time or tone.”

...(T)here are times when playing it too cautious can hurt as well...Rihanna...was the victim, not the perpetrator. She could also be characterized as one other thing as a result: a survivor. Maybe the NFL didn’t consider the underlying message they could’ve conveyed with that last thought?

Well, duh -- What more perfect "tone" for them set than to show SUPPORT for a domestic violence survivor? Don't they realize that they victimized her ALL OVER AGAIN???


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[cheyanne]

1. Has the NFL acknowledged that violence is symptomatic of brain damage?

How long as a pro football player been playing football even before he was in the NFL? How many concussions has he sustained? How much brain damage does he have?

People with brain damage can be more volatile and prone to violent outbursts. They need to have support to learn ways to cope with their brain changes.


"For their study, the researchers analyzed postmortem brain tissue from four military service members who were known to have been injured by a blast or had a concussive injury. The scientists compared that tissue with brain tissue samples from three young amateur American football players and a professional wrestler, all of whom had a history of repetitive concussive injury, and with four samples from comparably aged control subjects with no history of blast exposure, concussive injury or neurological disease. The signs of CTE (which can only be diagnosed postmortem) in the brains of blast-exposed military veterans were indistinguishable from those found in the deceased athletes, according to the researchers, led by Lee Goldstein, an associate professor at Boston University School of Medicine (B.U.S.M.) and Boston University College of Engineering, and Ann McKee, a B.U.S.M. professor and director of the Neuropathology Service for the VA New England Healthcare System."

http://www.scientificamerican.com/...

"Violence as both a cause and a consequence of TBI is a serious problem. TBI professionals can play an important role in educating domestic violence workers, health care providers, and other professionals, including those in law enforcement, about ways to better identify and assist persons who experience violence. Additional research is needed to better quantify the extent of the problem and to ensure that screening methods for identifying a history of TBI are valid and reliable."

http://www.brainline.org/...

"Reasons for Violent Behaviour
We all tend to let our hair down with family, as opposed to strangers or acquaintances. Of course, after a brain injury a person's interpretation of letting hair down may be well beyond what most would consider acceptable, particularly if their self-awareness has been affected. They may justify their violence by saying that others provoked them, not realising that the brain injury has increased their sensitivity to stress and decreased their ability to handle it.
The frontal lobe is often damaged in brain injury. This area of the brain is involved in reasoning, problem solving and controlling our more basic instincts such as anger. An individual who has sustained a brain injury has often lost these skills and therefore may have trouble controlling anger and violent outbursts. In many cases brain injured individuals often lose some of their social judgement capabilities and are not effectively able to reason out the appropriateness of either their own behaviour or the behaviour they expect from others."

http://synapse.org.au/...

Are NFL players tested for brain damage before they are hired?

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2. DING DING DING! Cheyanne, you're our grand prize winner!

Are NFL players tested for brain damage before they are hired?

Excellent idea -- in fact, they should be tested as they move from youth to high school to college football. In fact, is a neurological workup part of the basic NFL physical? That is certainly a "social responsibility" that Ms. Isaacson can add to her list!


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3. More proof that Goodell is out of touch and needs to resign. knr nt