
Having spent his adult life speaking out against domestic abuse, NFL Vice President Troy Vincent recently began wondering if he needed to modify his message to reach a younger audience.
What concerned him were the worrisome statistics showing gender-based violence being as prevalent — if not more — in today’s society as it was when an 8-year-old Vincent and his younger brother huddled in a closet to seek shelter and shut out the sounds of their mother getting beaten by her boyfriend.