Ray Rice and the Baltimore Ravens are being criticized by the overly-critical Internet crowd for a poor choice of words used during his apology on Friday for the assault he committed on his wife in February.
In his public apology, Rice used an analogy about bouncing back from being knocked down when issuing a statement.
“I won’t call myself a failure. Failure is not getting knocked down. It’s not getting up,” he said.
Then the Ravens Twitter account chose to tweet that quote, too, which left them open to criticism:
Ray Rice: "I won't call myself a failure. Failure is not getting knocked down. It's not getting up."
— Baltimore Ravens (@Ravens) May 23, 2014
Given that police reportedly had video of Rice knocking out his wife, Janay Palmer, talking about “not getting knocked down” and “not getting up” is just a poor choice of words. But that’s all it is — a poor choice of words. I’m pretty sure he didn’t mean it to come off as badly as it did. And the person running the Ravens’ Twitter account probably should have used better judgment and not chosen to highlight that specific quote. I mean that part was definitely pretty dumb.
