Jerry Angelo’s days as an NFL employee are likely over.
During a scathing interview with USA Today, the former Bears GM said the NFL ignored hundreds of domestic violences cases.
Colangelo himself apologized for engaging in the ignorance as well.
“I made a mistake.”
“I was human. I was part of it. I’m not proud of it.”
Angelo, who was general manager of the Chicago Bears from 2001 to 2011 and is now an analyst for ESPN, said his typical approach after learning of a player’s involvement in a domestic violence case was to inquire.
“OK, is everybody OK? Yeah. How are they doing? Good. And then we’d just move on. We’d move on.”
“We knew it was wrong,” Angelo said. “…For whatever reason, it just kind of got glossed over. I’m no psychiatrist, so I can’t really get into what that part of it is. I’m just telling you how I was. I’ve got to look at myself first. And I was part of that, but I didn’t stand alone.”
Angelo of course said the Ray Rice video changed his outlook.
“It was the pictures, it was the video,” he said. “We had never seen that before. I had never seen video on domestic violence. I think that’s what got everybody’s attention.”