Jayna Rice Gives Interviews To Rescue Husband’s Battered Image for NFL Comeback

Jayna Plamer nee Rice now, has started the process of rehabilitating her husband Ray Rice in the eyes of the public by going all out in a very well orchestrated  media campaign.

According to her, he is human and made a mistake as everyone else. This is Jayna's second interview after an ESPN article appeared on the website under her byline and the interview was carrried over to NBC's Today show.

Ray Rice of the Balitmore Raven's was caught on camera punching his then fiancé Jayna Palmer in a hotel elevator in Atlantic city and knocking her out cold. He was suspended by the NFL for two games, which was later revised to indefinite suspension.

About the incident where he dragged her out after she fell unconscious, she said in the "Today" interview  that aired Monday., "He said he was just terrified. He was in such shock that this just happened, he didn't know how to function."

"Everybody makes mistakes. After this whole situation, you would think that we lived in a country full of people who never made a mistake," she said.

In an ironical twist Ray Rice has won an appeal against his indefinite suspension from NFL in a court and has been reinstated.   His publicity machine and advisors were able to turn Roger Goodall , the commissioner of NFL who gave the suspension, as the the bad guy  who tried to cover up the incident.

In both t he interviews Jana portrays herself as strong and not a walkover.

"Ray knows me, and there's no way. He knows what he would have to deal with. ... I'm not going to sit there in silence and let something happen to me. And God forbid, in front of my child, just let it happen? There's no way." She said, reports CNN

The whole purpose of the exercise is to get an NFL team to sign up Rice, which might be a little late in the day. On the face of it very few teams are in need of a running back who has been out of the game for so long . Also, no team is ready to risk taking the bad boy of "domestic abuse" on at this point of time, according to a New York Times report.

But we will have to wait and watch. Rice will make an appearance in the second part of the interview to be aired on Tuesday.