Long before the NFL faced questions about Ray Rice, there was the case of Dan Big Daddy Wilkinson. In 1995, the Cincinnati Bengals 325-pound defensive tackle briefly became a symbol of the leagues approach to domestic violence after he was accused of striking his pregnant girlfriend at their suburban Cincinnati home. The case caused the NFL to address domestic violence more aggressively and the league implemented its first personal conduct policy, which empowered the commissioner to hand out suspensions and stiff fines to any player convicted of a domestic violence offense. But this Outside the Lines analysis shows that policy did not yield a suspension after a domestic violence conviction until 2000… -- via Outside the Lines
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:35:08 +0000
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