I grew up on a healthy, stable diet of football. I watched every Sunday, Monday and Thursday game and have considered football my religion. However, as much as I love football, I have been struggling recently since I also identify as a feminist. I used to watch Hard Knocks Training Camp, an HBO television show that showcases one team per season and highlights the ups and downs a team faces during the pre-season while preparing for the regular football season.

This year the show is featuring the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and while in the past I would watch the show religiously with my Dad, I can no longer watch this show and feel comfortable with who I am as a feminist, as well as a human being. It is not that I hate the Buccaneers or think football is anti-feminist; I cannot support Jameis Winston being popularized as a hero and savior for the team when he is nothing more than a rapist who has faced no charges or consequences due to his celebrity and athlete status. I will not support this any longer. Therefore, I am going to tell the survivor's story so he is no longer deemed a savior and all-star.

In December of 2012, Jameis Winston, quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Heisman Trophy recipient, raped Erica Kinsman. Winston and Kinsman left a bar in the Tallahassee region together for an unknown apartment where Kinsman was repeatedly raped by Winston. At the time of the rape, Kinsman was highly intoxicated and possibly drugged, therefore unable to consent to sexual intercourse.

Despite her intoxication and attempts to refuse sex with Winston, he claims the sex was consensual. The Tallahassee police did not arrest or charge Winston with a crime despite the DNA evidence and testimony against him.

According to the New York Times, Erica Kinsman provided the Tallahassee Police Department with more than adequate information. If the Tallahassee Police Department even attempted to look into these claims based on her information, they could have obtained surveillance videos from the 30 surveillance cameras at the bar where she met Winston, found the cab driver who drove both of them back from the bar and interviewed Winston and his two roommates. Instead, they did nothing.

Both parties were students at Florida State University. The university claimed no evidence of sexual assault and reported no claims or accusations of sexual assault. They did not investigate Kinsman’s accusation against Winston that directly violated Title IX. Instead, Winston was drafted into the National Football League (NFL) with a $25 million contract, and Florida State University paid him almost a million dollars to make up for the emotional trauma caused by the rape.

Kinsman reached a monetary settlement with Florida State University for a civil suit, and Winston walked free without having to pay a penny for his actions. It was not until the Netflix documentary, The Hunting Ground, was released in early 2015 that this case was taken out of the dark and put into the light -- more than three years after the assault. Sadly what made the movie more famous was Winston's lawsuit against the movie for emotional distress.

It is time for people to know what this man has done because we can no longer sit quietly as the NFL, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and police ignore sexual assaults due to celebrity status. It is time for us to take action.