While I know that separating it out as "those guys" belittles the issue, I wish Myra Kraft were still alive, though I doubt she'd comment publicly. I'd really like to think this garbage wouldn't be tolerated, much less brushed aside / treated this way if it occurred with a player on the team I root for. But who knows if the player were good enough (Roethlisberger).
I do think that Rice would have been in much greater danger of being cut if doing so wouldn't essentially destroy the Ravens' cap with dead money. If Over the Cap is right, cutting him now would cost them $5.5m against the cap (which means they'd probably have to cut someone else too), and they wouldn't save any money next year either. That team has some garbage, uncuttable, contracts.