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Wow. So the Giants applied pressure to Eli Apple to get his mother to shut up about how Mara handled Josh Brown.
She's a DV victim herself speaking out on that situation and her own experiences. That's some cowardly **** man.
Whoa...where'd u see that?
Mara/Goodell got their hands in each others pockets.
I had little respect for Mara after the whole cap-gate thing, but that's superficial compared to what he's doing to Apple's mom.
But hey..."No More."
That cap-gate ordeal is yet another thing that didn't get as much play as it should have. It might have been you or another Skins fan who said at the time, "people don't really care about unfair/corrupt procedure like this until it happens to their teams. Then **** hits the fan and those of us who went through it say, "I told you so."" Lo and behold...
But anyways...here's where I saw it + some of her own words
http://www.sbnation.com/2016/11/3/13507920/annie-apple-new-york-giants-eli-josh-brown-domestic-abuse
[QUOTE url="[URL]http://www.si.com/nfl/2016/10/23/annie-apple-john-mara-giants-josh-brown[/URL]"]
“One of the worst things you can do to a domestic violence victim or survivor is to defend the abuser,” Annie Apple wrote in a deeply personal column for Sports Illustrated that accounted her own experiences with domestic abuse. “These abusive men aren't abusing the women in their lives because they're sick. These abusers are not the victims. They're abusing women because they can.
“Some have called me a distraction because speaking up for a cause the Giants have reportedly championed for years makes me a distraction. Others have called me a hero for speaking up. Honestly, I'm not a hero. I'm not special. I just know that in life, there are times when certain things are more important than your personal comfort or the game of football.”
Apple has never been one to withhold her opinion — something the Giants should’ve been aware of before the team drafted her son, Eli, with the No. 10 overall selection in the 2016 NFL draft. On Wednesday, in another column for Sports Illustrated, Apple said she was livid with the Giants not only for Mara’s comments or for the team’s handling of Brown, but also because the team tried to get her son to quiet down his mother.
“I felt they were leaning heavily on a 21-year-old kid in an effort to control what his mother says,” Apple wrote. “That’s not fair. I know the NFL is a business. I get it. But where in business school is showing basic human compassion and accountability not a good thing?”
Wow, man...this just makes me angry.
Got all these commercials about health screenings for women, "No More," etc., and this just goes to prove that all of it is for show.
Folks have to be able to see through this charade the NFL is putting on. It's disgusting.
This is why I rock w/ guys like Josh Norman, Richard Sherman, and others who speak out against the constant double-standard and contradictory nature in which the league/Goodell go about business.
