Ray Rice looking for ‘second chance’ in NFL

Ray Rice's interview with NBC aired on Tuesday. (Today)

On Monday Janay Rice appeared on NBC's Today with Matt Lauer and talked openly about where she and her family are and how things unfolded earlier in the year (notably she told Lauer the Ravens suggested the repulsive, victim-blaming press conference from May).

Rice "arrived" at home while Lauer and a pile of television cameras were interviewing Janay and he "agreed" to talk. (Maybe they didn't mean it to sound so impromptu, but it did.) When Rice spoke, he acknowledged he made "a horrendous mistake" in the process by not apologizing to Janay.

"I made a horrendous mistake not apologizing to my wife," Rice said of the press conference. "we were given what to speak about. It wasn't truly coming from us, if you can understand."

Rice said he's been going through counseling recently and that he let the counselor "rip me apart and build me back together."

"Counseling. I'll be honest. What my counselor did was basically rip me apart and build me back together," Rice said. "I couldn't resist it. I was able to let somebody else in and literally tear me down. I wasn't resisting. There was so much you didn't know about yourself.

"You grow up and think you know it all. I had ceiling over my head. I was a professional athlete. That ceiling sometimes is -- you put yourself in a place where you really don't understand where you're going."

Rice also acknowledged how he has to "own" what he did and how he won't be able to just get lost in the shuffle as time marches on.

"This is something as a man you have to own," Rice said. "We're horribly sorry. And I'm horribly sorry for everything I put my family through. I still have to live every day and take my daughter to school, she's going to grow up and the way the Internet works is she's going to Google her father's name and the first thing that's going to come up ... is ... we know it's going to come up."

Additionally, Rice said he understands life in football could be over and he's prepared to move on if he has to.

"If I never play football again, I'll be honest with you, I would adapt into life and I would sacrifice more so she can have a better future," Rice said.

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