Content warning: this story contains details of rape and sexual violence.
Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott left the field against the Carolina Panthers and headed toward the locker room. Thad Brown, a reporter from WROC in Rochester, asked the first question about punter Matt Araiza before he even got off the field. When he hit the postgame presser in the media room, not a single word was spoken that wasn’t about the team’s punter, who was publicly accused on Thursday of gang-raping a then-17-year-old high school senior while Araiza was a member of the San Diego State University football team.