It’s time for Ray Rice to be given a chance to return to the National Football League.

This is not a popular opinion. Eleven months after the awful video surfaced showing him punching his soon-to-be wife, Rice remains a pariah. Most Americans view him as the personification of domestic violence, and he says he understands that. Most NFL teams are afraid to touch him, fearing the public onslaught that is certain to come should they bring him in, and he says he understands that, too.

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