12 wife-beating felons still playing for the NFL

As the National Felons League comes under the microscope for harboring and defending felons who commit violent acts of depravity against women and children it has come to light that there many felons who are wife-beaters are still playing football for the NFL as if nothing occurred:

Ray Rice may never again play in the NFL, but a dozen other players with domestic violence arrests are still suiting up on Sundays. 

Ray McDonald and Chris Cook of the San Francsico 49ers, Tony McDaniel and Kevin Williams of the Seattle Seahawks, Brandon Marshall and Santonio Holmes of the Chicago Bears, Greg Hardy of the Carolina Panthers, Dez Bryant of the Dallas Cowboys, Erik Walden of the Indianapolis Colts, Donte Whitner of the Cleveland Browns, Randy Starks of the Miami Dolphins and Frostee Rucker of the Arizona Cardinals have all been arrested for domestic violence or related charges since 2005, according to a USA Today database that tracks players' arrests since 2000. 

Some fought the charges and won. Others accepted blame, served short suspensions and returned to the game. The rest are still waiting for their day in court, the focus of intense new scrutiny as America’s most powerful sports league faces growing criticism over its handling of players’ off-the-field conduct. 

This stupid notion that the NFL is an iconic powerful American cultural deserving of veneration as a role model for young people needs to be re-evaluated me thinks.