The NFL Knows Squat About Personal Conduct

Content warning: This episode contains discussion of sexual violence, harassment, intimate partner violence, and domestic abuse.

Hannah & Suzanne share yet another SUPER FUN PODCAST EPISODE, GUYS™, this time examining an administrative policy of one of America's most powerful corporations: the NFL and their personal conduct policy. What is the 1-ish thing that rules all other things for the NFL? In what way does the terrible mismanagement of these cases show us that the call is coming from inside the house? And what does Andrew Cuomo have to do with any of this? Also, DO NOT SUE US NFL. We say 'allegedly' like 6,000 times.

Reading List:

The NFL Personal Conduct Policy

Kareem Hunt Timeline: The video, the NFL investigation and the RB's contract with the Browns (Sporting News)

The NFL Investigation And Punishment Of Josh Brown Achieved Nothing (Deadspin)

The NFL’s Uneven History Of Punishing Domestic Violence (FiveThirtyEight)

Adubato, B. (2016) ‘The Promise of Violence: Televised, Professional Football Games and Domestic Violence’, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 40(1), pp. 22–37. doi: 10.1177/0193723515594209.

Christensen, M. C., Gill, E. and Pérez, A. (2016) ‘The Ray Rice Domestic Violence Case: Constructing Black Masculinity Through Newspaper Reports’, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 40(5), pp. 363–386. doi: 10.1177/0193723516655576.

Mahone, M. (2008). Sentencing guidelines for the court of public opinion: An analysis of the national football league's revised personal conduct policy. Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law, 11(1), 181-210.

Wan Woo, C., Brigham, M., & Gulotta, M. (2020) Twitter Talk and Twitter Sharing in Times of Crisis: Exploring Rhetorical Motive andAgenda-Setting in the Ray Rice Scandal, Communication Studies, 71:1, 40-58, DOI: 10.1080/10510974.2019.1661866

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