Are you ready for some football?

Facebook has this cool thing called “On This Day” where you’re reminded of posts you’ve written or shared on this same date but different year. Two years ago I shared a TMZ video of then-Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice knocking out his fiancée (now wife) by viciously punching her in the face. My post read “This is what a two-game suspension looks like for the NFL.”

Rice has done all he can to rehabilitate not only himself but his image to the public. He even said during the offseason that if a team was to sign the 29-year-old back that he’d donate every game check he earned toward combating domestic violence.

“All the scrutiny that I’ve got, it was deserved, because domestic violence is a horrible thing,” Rice said.

“Me donating my salary is something that’ll be from the heart for me. I only want to play football so I can end it the right way for my kids and for the people that really believed in me. But I know there’s a lot of people affected by domestic violence, and every dollar helps. It’s raising awareness.”

I am all for second chances and I’m willing to believe that Rice has truly learned his lesson. But has the NFL learned theirs?

After Rice’s suspension, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell announced new guidelines for how the league would handle incidents of domestic violence and sexual assault.

Any incident of domestic violence or sexual assault “will be subject to a suspension without pay of six games for a first offense,” Goodell wrote two years ago. “A second offense will result in banishment from the NFL.”

Seems harsh but Goodell has always been the type to show off his power and give off that no-nonsense persona.

Two years later and it seems the NFL has loosened up their policy.

The NFL announced that New York Giants’ kicker Josh Brown was suspended on Aug. 17 under the NFL’s personal conduct policy and will miss the opening game against the Dallas Cowboys (this Sunday). The cause of the one-game suspension was because of a domestic violence incident between Brown and his then-wife Molly.

But just two years ago the NFL said a first offense would be six games without pay. So what gives?

Apparently the NFL said its investigation of the incident could not corroborate the statements made by Molly Brown at the time of the arrest. Lack of evidence, for the NFL, means a one-game suspension.

So if there really was a lack of evidence, why suspend him at all? Instead the NFL is telling Brown to sit for a game, leaving us to ask why?

After the suspension and the reasoning behind it was announced, Seth Walder of the New York Daily News obtained reports that said Brown’s ex-wife told police on the day of his arrest that he had been physically violent with her over 20 times.

Brown’s response to the Daily News? “It was just a moment.”

Tell me again, why was it just a one-game suspension? Or do we need video like we got from the Ray Rice incident to be outraged by all of this?

Unfortunately, the NFL will continue on despite media doing its best to call out the league on its BS. It’s Week 1 after all and football is back for the first time since social media was outraged at Cam Newton’s lack of sportsmanship after the Super Bowl. This Josh Brown incident will be ignored and we’ll go back to rooting for big hits, touchdowns and wishing the absolute worst for our rivals. Because that’s how the machine works for the NFL. Doesn’t matter what happens, we’ll still be watching.

Are you ready for some football?