Nov 7, 2015 By John Steigerwald for The 4 min read

Who needed pictures?

Now that Deadspin has released pictures of Greg Hardy’s former girlfriend/victim, there is a movement among fans and media to have him thrown out of the NFL.

Jerry Jones, who signed Hardy to play for the Cowboys, has said that he didn’t see the pictures before signing him and that he has no intention of cutting him.

If Hardy were a back up special teams gunner, he would have been cut immediately, but he’s a really good pass rusher and will soon be getting a contract extension.

As you’re reading this some women in Dallas are putting on their Greg Hardy jerseys or walking with their husband who’s wearing one.

If there had been video of Hardy as there was for Ray Rice, who still can’t get anybody to give him a job, Jones wouldn’t have signed him. Not because he would have been appalled by it, but because he would have known that you would have been appalled by it.

Jones called Hardy a good team player the other day, not long after he fought with his teammate Dez Bryant and an assistant coach on the sideline.

NFL teams have no shame.

If the video tape in a Georgia bar hadn’t been recorded over a few years ago, would Ben Roethlisberger still be quarterbacking the Steelers?

A good case could have been made for the Steelers cutting Roethlisberger without the video tape.

I suggested it at the time.

The Steelers obviously had no problem with keeping him on as the face of the franchise.

If he had been the backup quarterback, he would have been cut before he got home that night.

Meanwhile, as you’re readlng this, there’s a good chance that, somewhere in Texas, some men and women are slipping their Greg Hardy jerseys on.

Keep Hardy and the Cowboys in mind the next time you see the NFL’s heartfelt anti-domestic violence message.

— The Penguins, going into their game with Calgary Saturday night, were the toughest team to score on in the NHL and had won six in a row and eight out of nine. Part of that success can be attributed to having Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin playing a 200 foot game, by playing defense behind their goal line.

Winning is nice, but, if Mario Lemieux had sacrificed half his points per year to play defense in the ’90s and that had meant an extra Stanley Cup for the Penguins, hockey would be about half as popular as it is around here right now.

— Pitt hung with Notre Dame for a while on Saturday in a 42-30 loss and the program seems to be headed in the right direction under Pat Narduzzi, but something’s not right when Temple, who gave Notre Dame a much tougher game, is ranked in the top 25 and Pitt isn’t.

— And it’s not a good time for local major college football when Penn State and West Virginia are also ranked behind Temple. WVU looks like it’s over its head in the Big 12. Penn State, who lost to Northwestern Saturday, in the post-Paterno era, has turned into Indiana.

— When the schedule came out in April, the Raiders at home on November 8th looked like a pretty sure W for the Steelers. Not now. It’s become a must win and not an easy one.

— It might have been a good idea for the Steelers to give Ray Rice a tryout. Unlike Hardy, he has shown what appears to be genuine remorse. And, as horrific as his offense was, Rice was known as a pretty solid citizen prior to the elevator episode.

Some guys do deserve a second chance. Rice does. Hardy doesn’t.

Rice is only 28 and had a below average year in 2013, but he played hurt.

— The Patriots are having a lot of success with former Pitt running back Dion Lewis, who sat out last year with an injury.

— There is a major goal shortage in the NHL right now. What the league doesn’t need is for a goal to be wiped out after a video shown at 1/1000th speed shows a skate 1/16 of an inch off side.