By now, virtually everyone has seen the appalling video of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice savagely attacking his then-fiancée in an Atlantic City elevator. The punch, which knocked his soon-to-be wife unconscious, was fierce, terrifying, and utterly unacceptable on any number of levels. Immediately, pundits and pols began demanding that the NFL take the types of actions they should have taken when the story first broke in January.
