This is some good work from Deadspin and once again shows you that Peter King is in bed with the NFL and to be very careful about believing anything he writes about the league.
Back in June, King wrote that it was Janay Rice’s impassioned plea that made Roger Goodell only give Ray Rice a 2-game suspension.
Rice’s wife, a source said, made a moving and apparently convincing case to Goodell during a June 16 hearing at Goodell’s office in Manhattan—attended by Rice, GM Ozzie Newsome, club president Dick Cass of Baltimore; and Goodell, Jeff Pash and Adolpho Birch of the league—that the incident in the hotel elevator was a one-time event, and nothing physical had happened in their relationship before or since. She urged Goodell, the source said, to not ruin Rice’s image and career with his sanctions.
In reality, Janay was only asked one question and this is how she responded according to Judge Barbara Jones.
On June 16, when Birch directed the conversation to her and asked how she felt, she couldn’t speak; she just cried and said “I’m just ready for it to be over.“
Peter King’s sources are looking funny in the light.