ESPN To Release Report On Ravens Covering Up Abusive Ray Rice Video Did the Baltimore Ravens organization know about the video of Ray Rice knocking out his wife in an elevator long before it went public? ESPN says yes. via NYPost The Ravens and the NFL were reeling Friday night from an explosive report stating the team conducted a wide-ranging cover-up of Ray Rice’s elevator assault almost immediately after it happened in February. In a 7,000-word story published shortly after NFL commissioner Roger Goodell’s apologetic news conference, ESPN reported Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti and several high-ranking team officials worked feverishly to keep Rice out of jail and keep the video of him knocking out his then-fiancee from ever becoming public. The network also reported that, once the video was released Sept. 8 by TMZ, Bisciotti cut Rice and immediately tried to buy the former Rutgers star’s silence with a post-football job offer with the team. The Ravens released a statement late Friday claiming the story contained “numerous errors, inaccuracies, false assumptions and, perhaps, misunderstandings,” though the team refused to specify any. ESPN responded immediately by saying the network “stands behind [the] reporting” of the story’s authors, which include Pulitzer Prize winner Don Van Natta Jr. The most damaging detail in the report alleged the Ravens’ security director knew the exact details of the elevator incident just hours after it happened Feb. 15 at the since-closed Revel casino because a police lieutenant described the video to him as the lieutenant was watching it. Sounds like the Ravens definitely have some explaining to do!
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Keep It In The Closet: ESPN Releasing Report Claiming The Baltimore Ravens Covered Up Ray Rice Abuse Video
