"Tom Cable's history of violence against women raises a question: why is he still the head coach of an NFL team?" Terry O'Neill, the President of NOW, told USA Today. "Mr. Cable admits having battered his first wife, and he stands accused of battering two other intimate partners as well. As a survivor of domestic violence, I know that women do not make such accusations lightly. Indeed, women have much more to lose than to gain by coming forward to tell their stories.
"The Oakland Raiders, properly, say they are undergoing a 'serious evaluation' of these recent allegations. At the very least he should be suspended during this process. . . . A man who has admitted battering his wife has no business being a role model for all of us who would like to be able to look up to the head coach of an NFL football team."
Though the problem of domestic violence is very real and should not be minimized, the fact that the incident to which Cable has admitted occurred more than two decades ago gives us some concern. .
So the NFL faces a difficult dilemma in this case. Given that Cable has struggled as a head coach and in light of the fact that defensive assistant Randy Hanson emerged from an August meeting with a broken jaw, it makes sense for the Raiders to sever ties with Cable in light of the totality of the circumstances.
A far thornier dilemma will arise if/when an NFL head coach with no history of assault allegations and a solid won-loss record faces outdated but meritorious claims of domestic violence. Cable surely isn't the only NFL head coach who ever has snapped under the stress of a job premised in large part on physicality. Indeed, we're surprised in hindsight that similar claims haven't previously been made against other NFL head coaches.
Now that multiple women have gone on the record regarding Cable, we wonder whether any of the former wives and girlfriends of other NFL coaches will do the same.
Tell them to shut the heck up. This guy is being roasted before all the facts are known and additionally something that is only new to the general public. This simply makes the NOW look opportunistic, not a great supporter of women's rights.
I would agree except that NOW doesn't apply this type of logic evenly. NOW has let a lot of the "beautiful" people slide when it comes to abuse.
The Head Coach of the Raiders is nobody role model. So, not a problem there.
This does need to be taken seriously, but NOW needs to stop acting like PETA with their knee jerk, over the top reactions. Nobody listens when they behave like that. Which means they aren't effective in their mission.
Remember the pink hats and shoes.
Yep supporting women with cancer.
Kind of a way the NFL wants to shed its image with all the off season actions the last few years.
Well Hello Tom Cable ...........
oh brother. is this the female version of Al Sharptoning? the projection of oneself into others' affairs.
far be it from me to defend cable, but allegations of stuff from 10+ years ago alone aren't going to fly in this case.
i think that perhaps these women took the opportunity to exploit a situation, possibly for financial gain. if there was real serious wrongdoing, this would have been dealt with years ago, instead of coming up now when it's convenient.
sorry, not buying
Gee, do you think NOW has seen the opportunity to get their name attached to a national story?
The comparison to PETA is appropriate since both of these organizations are far more concerned about their politics and their fund raising success than they are with protecting those they claim to represent.
"As a survivor of domestic violence, I know that women do not make such accusations lightly. "
what, like anyone else is less qualified simply because they haven't been beat?
btw, where is NOW in regards to rothlisberger? shouldn't be complaining about andrea mcnulty making false accusations and setting the womens movement back?
get over yourselves you hags get a clue and move along, also, might i suggest getting a real job for once?
Mike, this and the Big Baby story were on ESPN a while before you posted them... I'm shocked. You used to have inside info on all this stuff and would get a lot of stories out before ESPN. Looks like you're falling behind now, as much as I hate to say it.
Tom Cable's response to NOW:
STFU or I'll slap you silly!
It has been confirmed that the following organization have also lobbied for Cable's firing:
American Anorexia Association
National Assiciation of Pugilists
and last but not least---The United States Committee For Anger Management
NOW said they would speak more on the subject at its next annual meeting with guest speaker President Bill Clinton.
Miss O'Neill, PLENTY of women make those accusations lightly. And flat out falsely.
That doesn't mean that I necessarily disagree with your conclusion on Tom Cable, but don't try and justify it with your implication of, "if *women* said it, it's almost guaranteed to be true!" nonsense.
I don't doubt that you deal with a lot of battered and abused women. The big fat liars are the ones that *don't* bring themselves to your organization's attention.
NOM should also demand his firing! For brutally and physically abusing his male assistant coach!
texasPHINSfan - Yep. Its Al Sharptoning at its best (worst?).
I'll be the first to say that violence against women (or any kind, for that matter) is a good thing. Well, sometimes it is. Some people need a good thumping to straighten up, but that's reserved for serial killers, rapists, etc.
But that said, just like Al Sharpton, NOW is basically attempting to dictate to a private organization how they should operate, which is wrong, and attempting to destroy the income for a person that hasn't been proven guilty yet. Quite like Al Sharpton, actually.
Again, that said, I think Cable is a bit of a jerk, and thats without proof that he beat his women.
National Association of Gals (NAG) that's what Rush Limbaugh calls them. It would be have been better if Rush was part of the NFL.
He isn't a weakling like Tagliabue was, giving in to every bizzare weirdo minority pressure group that comes along trying to tell others how to run their business.
Say goodbye to Tom Cable, everybody!
He's about to get the Vick treatment. They are going to drudge up all kinds of stuff on him and they are going to find something to nail him on.
Watch and see. Dude will probably last until the playoffs and get fired right after... with cause. And that might be a good thing for him. If he stays, someone's going to find something on him to put him in jail.
So say goodbye!
The league ought to encourage the Raiders to not knee-jerk react now; and just wait until end of season and fire Cable because the Raiders suck. If they take any action due to what "might" have occurred long ago and far away, they will indeed be laying an ugly foundation for potential future allegations.
As for NOW, the PETA and Al Sharpton analogies certainly came to mind - 0pportunity for a soapbox without appropriate due diligence or objectivity.
HEADLINES.....
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BANANA GRABBERS WANTS LARRY 'THE IM STILL IN THE CLOSET" JOHNSON TO RIDE THE GUYS ON THE BENCH....OR I MEAN ...SIT ON THE BENCH..SO HE DOESNT BREAK THE RABBI'S RUSHING RECORD.....
OH, LARRY , HE IS SOOOOOOOOOOOO GAY!!!! BET
Couldn't happen to a better team, literally!
First they lose the Superbowl to the only decent coach they've had in 20 years, a coach they traded for picks they wasted, and ended back with the team they traded the coach for anyway!!!
Then they hire a joke QB coach from SC, can him, hire a wife beater who breaks the jaw of a assistant coach....
Did I mention Crabtree outperformed Darrius "Underwear Superstar" Heyward Bey in ONE GAME, and they way way way overpaid this worthless track prospect.
Follow that up by trading next years top 5 pick for 16 games from an aging veteran looking to play for a real franchise. Brilliant!!!
And they got blackouts!!! Raider fans kids are begging them not to take them to the black hole of loserville.
RAIDERS SUCK!!!!! WOOO!!!!!!
"he stands accused of battering two other intimate partners as well".......
is one of those "intimate partners" the coach he punched out ..now it all makes sense a lovers quarrel
MitchAlbom'sEars says:
November 5, 2009 3:26 PM
Remember the pink hats and shoes.
Yep supporting women with cancer.
Kind of a way the NFL wants to shed its image with all the off season actions the last few years.
Well Hello Tom Cable ...........
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The pink hats and pink shoes for supporting women with cancer was started by DeAneglo Williams RB for the Panthers as a tribute for the women in his family and all other families that were affected by breast cancer. Using that as an example of the NFL trying to boost its image is shady and low.
Cable has the job in Oakland because no reputable man of football will go anywhere near the organization.
How many bigwigs have turned down this job in the last five years?
How often do college-level assistants - ie. Steve Sarkisian while at USC -- not only get offered but turn down NFL level head-coaching gigs?
When is Goodell, at the request of the other 31 owners, going to step in?
I think the national organization for women should get some implants and make me a sandwich. Leave Tom Cable alone, we don't know what these women said to him. Let see all the facts come out and then we can make a judgement on whether they should have been slapped
I wouldn't consider the head coach of any NFL team to be a role model, let a lone the coach of the Raiders. And while it may be a "privilege" to play in the NFL, I don't think coaching is, at least not to the same degree. It can be just as lucrative to coach at the college level and it's not uncommon for coaches to leave the NFL for college opportunities. The allegations, if true, certainly make the guy a douchebag, but it shouldn't disqualify him from holding a job. At worst, he should be subject to the same disciplinary review by the commissioner that is imposed on the players.
Normally I would tend to agree that an isolated incident from 10 years ago is not the best evidence against a guy. But- we have some kind of link to the present where the guy (allegedly) broke someone's jaw recently. And there are other incidents that have surfaced of similar occurences in the years between. With so many allegations, they are no longer isolated incidents, but part of a larger pattern of abuse from a bully. The team and the league needs to react forcefully.
I never knew that Raider nation went by the more accurate name "National Organization for Women". Makes perfect sense though.
These kind of women make us all look crazy and stupid.
I AM NOT defending a man who would hit a woman, but mind your own business. Its not right to butt in unless called upon.
old story....who cares.
Now if AL decides all of this is hurting the team he might use it as an excuse to fire Cable.
Welcome to Politicial Incorrectness Inconsistency.
Leonard Little kills a lady drunk, and he gets to come back and play. Vick kills dogs, and he gets suspended but returns. Larry Johnson uses a derogatory word, a slang word for cigarette in the UK, and he gets to ride the pine for two weeks. Rush Limbaugh allegedly makes some asinine statements, and so he can't be an owner, and Tom Cable, who got a pass for attacking a man a few weeks back, now needs to be fired because he admits he hit a woman 20 years ago.
Makes you wonder: how severe would the penalty be if a player/coach/potential owner drove the dog he kicked in the chops to the vet's office while drunk and on steroids, after the dog bit him for calling his wife a rug muncher?
I am still waiting for NOW's statement regarding the co-host of the 2010 Academy Awards (Alec "not just women but children too" Baldwin).
if roger isnt going after players for stuff that happened several years ago, he should let the women's allegations go.
the hanson issue is something else entirely.
roger clearly didnt let go of james buckley spanking his dad in an election in 1970, however.
Where were these idiots when people were getting into the league after killing others while driving drunk? Also, how many players wives are getting beat throughout the season but we just don't know about it. What happened to his privacy rights. If he really did anything wrong, he'd be in jail.
DIAF NOW.
kthxbi
Gotta love the gender bias, hatred is a better word here, against Tom Cable. Why doesn't the National Organization of Women call for Cable's ex wife to be fired since she clearly engaged in emotional and mental abuse by having the affair in the first place? Abuse is abuse. Love the double standard being applied here.
Old news that just came up...meh.
@dendonkeys... You must be a spokeswoman.
Good for you.... Ya B!tch...
@MitchAlbom'sEars.. Great name.
What the woman from NOW doesn't realize is that Cable's wife was probably asking for it.
Tom Cable once asked.Whats the first thing a woman does when she comes home from the womans abuse clinic?Answer= The dishes if she knows whats good for her.
"Tom Cable's history of violence against women raises a question: why is he still the head coach of an NFL team?". Well Ms. O'Neill the problem here is that the NFL does not consider violence against women a "divisive" enough issue to do anything about. Now if you can get Cable to expouse conservative views which can be taken out of whole context to be racist, then you can have him fired.
@ModHairKen...Perfect.
DUDE....YOU CUT OUT MY WHOLE RESPONSEz?????
NOW lost all credibility when they gave President Clinton a pass for all the women he abused.
It's probably that time of the month - that's why they're acting up..
What a worthless waste of space this thread was.
This thread is now about tacos. Go.
How happy you must be Cornflorio.
There are people playing in the NFL today that have domestic violence occurences recently.
This whole thing is an interesting study of mob mentality and the sheeple behind it. My biggest interest s in the agenda of the accusers.
NOW should remain focused on its political agenda and leave the NFL's private corporate personnel matters to the NFL.
@DcNinerFan, droppingloads, JimmySmith, and canyon215 ... I'd be concerned about the safety of the women in your lives, but I'm quite sure you clowns couldn't get a woman with a lasso, a stun gun, and a $10 million bribe.
Geez, its not like over the past few weeks the NFL showed that they instantaneously cave in to Liberal pressure groups.
Goodell=France.
Left wing groups=Vikings.
"How many bigwigs have turned down this job in the last five years?"
The only one who turned it down was Benard Petrino. Sarkisian, Sean Payton, Whisenhunt and others were not offered the job.
Tom Cable fits right in to to today's NFL, so get off his back. If your going to allow felons to play in the league, then there is no reason Tom Cable can't coach in the league. The NFL has made it's bed, and now it's time to lay in it. These NOW women should realize this, and back the hell off.
Whats with the public lynching of this guy? Has he been convicted before? Is ESPN running with alleged allegations, unlike they did with the Rotheliesberger story?
ESPN and their agenda can go fuck themselves. Its just like the supposedly Rush Limbaugh quote about slavery. Get people all fired up, and next thing you know I have to read collumns from Christine Brennan, who in all her conventional wisdom, thinks Godell should make this guy resign.
Our society is so fucked, that its not even funny.
In a related story, the National Organization of Men Against Amazonian Masterhood (NO MAM') has pledged their support for Coach Cable. . .
@DcNinerFan ... Sorry!! I added to you my insult to those other boobs because you left an important "not" out of your post. I came back and reread because I still could NOT believe someone actually posted "I'll be the first to say that violence against women .. is a good thing. Well, sometimes it is." But after reading it a couple of times, I realized what you meant to say. So sorry I called you out. You did not deserve to be included with those morons. And NOW does need to stay out of this.
The world has gone mad. Slapping your wife or your girlfriend during a heated argument is not abuse. Just as spanking your child when he/she needs it is not abuse. Abuse is chronic beating / hitting for no good reason over a period of time. It seems to me that either ESPN or more likely Hanson's lawyer is trying to drum up a civil suit with the promise of some big$$$$$ for NOW, Hanson, Cable's ex and Cable's girlfriend. ESPN is more than happy to report these accusations since they were left with egg on their face when they reported erroneously that Cable had punched Hanson in the face and broke his jaw. The media, especially ESPN wants to get back at Al because he always proves them wrong and doesn't cooperate with the media when it comes to getting information they think is their right to have.
yeah, they want cable fired, but they don't say a word when muslims kill their daughters in the streets and make women into third class citizens in their own countries.
NOW is a bunch of pussies.
NOW is a 2 bit organization that represents a small number of closed minded women and weak-assed men. It only supports women and their issues when it fits their own specific and limited agenda. It does not look out at all for what is best for all women. Only those that fit and support their causes, and which can be used to imply the organization still has a reason to exist.
So basically as soon as someone reads the lines "NOW wants" they should say "Who Cares".
I in no way condone what Cable did twenty years ago and do not seek to minimize the cowardly act of striking a woman or blindsiding an NFL coach. However if the Raiders fire Cable as (NOW), the National Organization for Women wants. The firing would open up an avenue for all former wives and girlfriends to make up things that may or may not have occurred twenty years ago.
Bumper sticker spotted in Oakland:
MY COACH CAN BEAT UP YOUR COACH.
AND YOUR COACH'S WIFE TOO!
Hey BUNYAN,
I'm surprised with a brain as small as yours you are able to use a computer to type a post.
Do your knuckles hurt at the night after dragging them on the ground all day?
God I hope you are not married and don't have kids.
First off let me say the few times I have seen a guy hit a girl I did not hesitate hitting the guy on the spot. That goes for me and my friends. But lets be honest lady I know of LOTS of women that have 100% lied about being hit by guys. I have been around plenty of girls that have gotten into arguments with their boyfriends infront of me when nothing physical happened but then heard through the grape vine that the guy pushed her or grabbed or threw her down. I also have been accused once of pushing a girl in a crowded party with tons of witnesses around that know it didnt happen. But still the girl tried to tell people it did. So whoever this spokeswoman is needs to get a grip. There are plenty of vindictive women out there that will lie no matter who it hurts. Even if the lie hurts them more then anyone else. As long as its hurts the person there mad at thats all that matters.
I know most women arent like that and also their are just as many men that do the samething. But for that lady to act like it never happens is outrageous. Talking like that will only stop people from supporting your cause. No matter how right your orginazation is it doesn't matter because people will associate your group with your words and that will drive them away.
Cable should just announce that he's a liberal socialist. Then he can do whatever he wants and the feminists won't say a word.
Feminists lost all credibility when they demonized Clarence Thomas then gave Bill Clinton a pass by saying that a man should get "One free grope."
Cable is a damn joke.
NOW! Never-Orgasm-Women.
meh.
if the girl had an affair, and tom slapped her, i don't think that's abuse. what she did is far worse than what he did in that case.
i also don't believe in that "you can't hit women" rule anymore. that's chivalry from last century. when women asked to be treated as equals as men, that goes across the board. no favorable treatment in certain areas. if a woman hits first, it's open game. if a woman can slap a man and not be charged, then a man should be able to slap a woman.
i just want equality... you know, the same thing the women wanted for hundreds of years.
I'm not happy that NOW chose to butt into this, but some of these responses are ridiculous.
@texasFINSfan ... It's real simple: What women have wanted for hundreds of years is to be treated like human beings instead of just interchangeable penile receptacles.
As for whether a man should slap back when he gets slapped, that depends on why he was slapped in the first place. I've had strangers shove me against the back of an elevator and grope me, pass me on the street and grab my backside--and NO I wasn't dressed like I was "asking" for it. Those are just TINY examples. Even small men have significantly more upper body strength than women. There's a world of difference in the damage women and men can do with a slap. One day you may wind up in jail and get to experience the full joy of total helplessness from the woman's point of view. Then maybe your opinions will have a little more balance.
The world has good and bad women just like it has good and bad men. Route36West managed to do a great job of discussing rotten females without lobbying for permission to hit women.