It still seems like only yesterday the Ray Rice fiasco delivered a knock-out punch to the Ravens’ image. And the timing couldn’t have been worse. The rest of the NFL had already watched the Ravens suffer one arrest after another, with suspensions piling on for good measure.
The fan base that once pointed a finger at the Bengals stripes as ideal for the prisoners they employed had three fingers pointing back at them.
Fast forward to 2016.
Look around the league – Brady and Deflategate, numerous players on the Al Jazeera report, 15 different teams with an arrest in the last 12 months.