The NFL is different. Although some fans say that they are giving up professional football, there's no serious prospect that outrage over accusations of violence against women will lead to significant boycotts. Nor am I advocating such a course. (I'm going to keep watching.) But we live in an era when over two-thirds of those surveyed believe that the league has a serious domestic violence problem. The figures are the same for fans and non-fans. When that large a swath of the public believes you have a problem, you have a problem. It's true that lots of players who have been violent against women in the past have been drummed out of the league with plenty of competitive years left in them. It's also true that the ESPN announcers looked shocked when Mixon, horrific footage and all, was drafted in the second round. The network immediately showed the video.