Normally, I talk about college basketball but today I’m going to switch gears in a quick opinion piece about the NFL. No I’m not talking about the Super Bowl, I’m talking about Marshawn Lynch being fined once again by the NFL for an “obscene” gesture after his go-ahead touchdown in Sundays NFC Championship game against Green Bay.

To me it feels like all the NFL does is try and pick on Lynch for doing such horrible things like: not talking to the media after games, “obscene” gestures, and was almost suspended for Sundays game and possibly the Super Bowl for wearing gold cleats because gold is not one of the colors that the Seahawks included in their color scheme before the season started.

What I don’t understand is why the League goes after Lynch while an even bigger scandal brewed in the last couple of years with domestic abuse from multiple players. As Lynch says nothing, neither does the NFL when it comes to domestic violence. As of July, just after a video surfaced of Ray Rice dragging his unconscious wife out of an elevator, there were 83 arrests of domestic violence in the NFL (55.4% of all NFL arrests since 2000).

I do understand that the League did do something about the sudden rise in domestic violence but they only suspended Rice for the preseason and two regular season games before more video surfaced of him actually beating his wife in the elevator, and even then it was the Ravens who released Rice while the NFL sat back and relaxed.

The League did do one thing right by suspending Adrian Peterson for the whole season for whipping his son with a Switch, but still, what they’ve been doing to Marshawn Lynch is almost harassment at this point. Over the past two seasons, Lynch has been fined multiple times, both for over $50K, for not speaking to the media. Lynch has not talked to the media since the game on Sunday and the NFL has said that if he does not speak to the media before the Super Bowl the League will fine him “significantly more” than the normal $50,000 during the regular season.

What bothers me the most about the NFL isn’t that it doesn’t act on domestic violence, because they do, it’s that the NFL decides to focus on a guy who doesn’t beat his family but who beats other teams.