Brennan: Kick Greg Hardy out of NFL after release of photos

Take a look, sports fans. Take a good look at the 48 photos Deadspin has put online of the battered and bruised body of Greg Hardy’s former girlfriend, Nicole Holder. Study the welts and marks on her back, her arms, her legs, her chin, her neck and her foot.

Then tell me why Hardy should ever be allowed to play another down in the NFL.

Almost 14 months to the day after we saw the Ray Rice video, we’re now looking at the Greg Hardy photos. They’re graphic and brutal and appalling.

Hopefully, they’ll have the same effect on Hardy’s career as the video did on Rice’s. Hardy never should have been allowed back into the NFL after originally being found guilty by a North Carolina judge of various terrible acts of violence against Holder.

Let’s hope the release of these photos will do what the NFL could not do: punish Hardy as he should be punished, by losing his career for good.