Ray Rice's wife says taking away football from her husband is horrific and making the couple relive a moment they regret is a "horrible thing."
Janay Palmer posted a statement Tuesday on her Instagram account, a day after TMZ Sports released video showing the couple Feb. 15 in an Atlantic City casino elevator. Each hits the other before Rice knocks Palmer off her feet and into a railing, knocking her out.
The Ravens released Rice hours after the video was released Monday, and the NFL followed by suspending him indefinitely.
Palmer wrote she awoke feeling as if she had a nightmare and accepting reality is "a nightmare in itself." She also wrote that this is their life and they will continue to show "what real love is!"
Goodell says NFL asked for, didn't get, Rice video
NEW YORK -- NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says the league asked for, but was not given, a just-released video showing former Ravens running back Ray Rice hitting his then-fiancee on an elevator.
Goodell says during an interview with CBS aired Tuesday: "We assumed that there was a video. We asked for video. But we were never granted that opportunity."
Two videos, one released by TMZ Sports and another shown later to The Associated Press by a law enforcement official, show Rice punching Janay Palmer -- who is now his wife -- at an Atlantic City casino.
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Goodell says no one at the NFL saw the video until TMZ posted it online Monday. After that, the Ravens cut Rice, and the league barred him indefinitely. Last month, Goodell suspended Rice for two games (see full story).
Ravens owner to PSL holders: 'You deserve an explanation'
Baltimore Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti issued a letter to personal seat license holders on Tuesday attempting to explain how and why the Ravens handled the Ray Rice situation as they did.
"[W]e did not do all we should have done and no amount of explanation can remedy that. What we can do now is share with you everything that occurred and vow to learn from all that has happened," Bisciotti wrote.
The full text of the letter can be found here on ProFootballTalk.
New Jersey lawmakers seek review of Rice case
CAMDEN, N.J. -- The president of the New Jersey state Senate is calling for a review of the decision to let former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice into a program to allow him to keep his record clean after he was accused of assaulting his then-fiancee.
Democratic Senate President Steve Sweeney says the state should look into how Rice's case was handled and into the criteria for getting into the pretrial intervention program. His request comes a day after the revelation of a video showing Rice punching his fiancee in the Revel Casino Hotel in Atlantic City. Rice and the woman have since married.
The Ravens cut Rice on Monday. The NFL suspended him indefinitely after the video was made public that day.
Rice has said his actions were "inexcusable."
Fox News: We're not taking domestic violence lightly
NEW YORK -- Fox News Channel host Brian Kilmeade insists the network's morning show isn't taking domestic abuse too lightly after it was criticized for comments made about the video showing football player Ray Rice hitting his future wife.
Kilmeade, on Monday's show, had said the lesson to be learned from the incident was -- quote -- "take the stairs."
Kilmeade addressed but didn't apologize for the remark on Tuesday's show. He said the remarks made some feel like the "Fox & Friends" hosts were taking the situation too lightly.
Kilmeade said -- quote -- "we are not. We were not. Domestic abuse is a very serious issue to us, I can assure you."
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