Eli Manning spoke out against the NFL’s numerous domestic violence issues Wednesday. (Ron Antonelli, Getty Images)
The Broncos’ about the NFL’s domestic violence issues, tweeting, among other things, that former Ravens running back Ray Rice should be “thrown out of the NFL” for assaulting his wife.
“As players we must speak up,” he said. “Stand up for what’s right. I don’t give a damn who u are or how much money you make. No place for this.”
On Wednesday, after news broke of Jonathan Dwyer’s arrest for assault, fellow Cardinald Darnell Dockett took to Twitter:
I swear people don’t know how lucky to be able to “play” in the NFL. Doing all types of dumb shit & here I am willing to do anything 2play!
— DARNELL DOCKETT (@ddockett)
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But many within the league, including some of its biggest names, have tried to avoid further talk of the issues, , chief among them.
“I think it’s been pretty well addressed by a number of people,” Manning said last week.
His younger brother Eli, however, has taken a different stance. As , Eli Manning, a father of two young children, called on his fellow players to take action:
“Obviously those are serious issues. … We can’t accept that as players, we can’t accept that from our teammates and around the league,” Manning said. “The message is out that you can’t mess with domestic violence, and everybody should know that. Hopefully, things get cleared up and cleaned up and guys can learn from this, and we don’t make these mistakes, and the NFL can learn from this, and we can go on and start getting back to football. …
“When you’re a football player and you play in the NFL, anything that happens amongst other players, gets reflected upon everybody, that’s just the way it goes. That’s unfortunate, because it’s a small number of people that this is happening to. … As players, we gotta be aware of what’s going on, and learn from situations, and we still gotta do our job, be good citizens in our community, be good people, and try to reflect our image and the New York Giants in a positive way.”
“You hate to see a child being hurt. … You don’t like seeing those things or hearing about ’em,” he said. “But try to go home and hug your own children. It makes you want to hopefully not put them in harm’s way.”
