NFL, America's morality police

In March of this year Baltimore Raven running back Ray Rice punched his then girlfriend, now wife in the face knocking her unconscious .In the after math that followed, Ray Rice was sentenced to an indefinite suspension by the NFL sparking moral outrage and other suspensions in the NFL for related offenses. Apparently Ray and his fellow players are not alone when it comes to domestic abuse. There has been an outcry over the commissioner of the NFL for what he knew and when. Many want NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to resign his position as if the problem will then just go away. Some of the suspensions were short lived , others are, as mentioned before are indefinite. Now lets look at the larger picture. Obviously in all walks of life there is and has always been domestic abuse it doesn't make it right, it just means that it has always been going on. It exists in Major League Baseball, Hockey, Basketball, Congress and the list is endless your plumber, mechanic, butcher , baker and candlestick maker could all be guilty of some kind of domestic abuse. The point is they are not sentenced to live life without parole as a beggar, losing their lively hood and public humiliation without ever being charged in an American courtroom. Are the NFL to be Americas morality police? are we going to give them complete power over what is right and wrong in America's families schools , churches and factories? There are of course bigger fish to fry and this is just one of many distractions, keeping us from looking at the larger picture.