It's been less than a year since a domestic violence scandal erupted in the National Football League. The infamous Ray Rice video from last September and the league's mishandling of the case plunged the NFL into an unprecedented crisis.
It also spurred the league into action after years of doing little or nothing about the problem of domestic violence. The problem continues and so do the efforts to fight it.
Rewind to last September when NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell publicly repented. "I got it wrong in the handling of the Ray Rice matter, and I'm sorry for that," he said.
Anna Isaacson already was working to fulfill Goodell's promise to "do whatever is necessary" to get it right. "And I can really remember sending an email around saying here's what the solution is going to be, here's how we're going to move this forward," she says.
[For more of this story, written by Tom Goldman, go to http://www.npr.org/2015/08/12/...go-for-the-long-game]
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