Female Ravens Fans React to Ray Rice Video and the NFL

By Carla Murphy Sep 12, 2014

Last night was Baltimore’s first football game since TMZ released the domestic violence video of Ravens player Ray Rice. One WaPo videographer talked to a handful of women, all longtime Ravens fans, about Rice and the ensuing controversy that could cost the job of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and is forcing greater scrutiny of the NFL. Check out the mix of opinions in "The ladies of Ravens Nation," including those where the love of football takes over all executive brain function. Then be sure to check out our gender columnist Miriam Zoila Pérez’s latest. She talks to longtime activists about the complicated relationship that women of color have with the now 20-year-old Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).

(h/t Washington Post)