The right thing. Sort of.

The Kansas City Chiefs kept on keepin' on Sunday afternoon, beating the Hapless Oakland Raiders* (* -- Official name) without running back Kareem Hunt, who didn't play on account of a couple of minutes of hotel surveillance video from back in February.

In other words, Hunt got Ray Riced.

It was Ray Rice who caused the NFL to cartoonishly backpedal when video of him punching his then-fiancée in an elevator surfaced after he'd already been disciplined. Suddenly the Shield got all sanctimonious (as the only the Shield can) about domestic violence, and pretty soon Ray Rice was out of the league.

As is Kareem Hunt.

In February he got off scot free after shoving and kicking a woman in a skinny-hours altercation in a Cleveland hotel. He wasn't charged, and the Chiefs and the league pretty much ignored the incident after listening to Hunt's version. Then this showed up.

As with Rice, the reaction was instantaneous, and somewhat, yes, cartoonish. All of a sudden everyone was again very concerned about domestic violence. All of a sudden they were horrified that one of their players could be involved in such brutal behavior, even though no one seemed to wonder at the time why one of their players was getting into an altercation with a woman at zero dark thirty in the morning.

And so on Saturday, a day after the video surfaced, the Chiefs released Kareem Hunt, who had already rushed for 824 yards and seven touchdowns this season. And everyone applauded the Chiefs for demonstrating with such swiftness and clarity that domestic violence Will Not Be Tolerated in their organization, or by extension the NASH-unal FOOT-ball League itself.

Except.

Except the Chiefs official statement didn't exactly say that.

No, sir. The official statement declared that Hunt was being released because he was less than truthful with team officials. In other words, they weren't nearly as troubled by the fact their star running back got caught on video shoving and kicking a woman as they were with the fact he lied about it.

So, once again, it's not about domestic violence with these folks, really. The Chiefs weren't sticking up for the woman involved. They were sticking up for themselves because the worse offense, apparently, was committed against them. Kareem Hunt lied to us!

And so it goes, as Kurt Vonnegut used to say.