Posted on 09/17/2014 9:11:44 AM PDT by AT7Saluki
The announcement from the Vikings came at about 2 a.m. Gutless Standard Time.
That means it took the team about 14 hours to cave from public pressure. "Cave" is the wrong word. Cower, run, scamper, bolt, run frantically and chickens--t might be better.
In one moment, the Vikings were saying that Adrian Peterson deserved due process. In the next, he was effectively suspended. I'd have more respect for the team if it stuck by its wrongheaded stance. Instead, the Vikings basically said: We stand by Adrian Peterson and will let due process play out...ah hold on, sponsors are pulling out. OK, bye Adrian.
No, the Vikings were not a profile in courage or aptitude.
Just a short time ago, the Vikings sent general manager Rick Spielman out to the media, a sacrificial lamb in what was one of the worst press conferences of all time. Spielman made Baghdad Bob look like Henry Kissinger. It was a disgrace particularly since Minnesota ownership was simultaneously hiding under its mahogany desk.
Then came the Vikings' statement, released in the wee hours, which sounds like it was written by The Onion. This sentence in particular, if this wasn't such a serious case, would cause bellyaching laughter: "We appreciate and value the input we have received from our fans, our partners and the community."
(Excerpt) Read more at bleacherreport.com ...
And weren't they taken a week after the punishment (i.e. he still had those injuries that long after)?
He’s trying. ...?
If they where taken a week after he was with his father, those where NOT from the beating he gave him. Those are too fresh to be a week old. Those are welts. The welts would have turned to a yellow or purple hue within a couple days.
Looks to me like a couple added for effect prior to the picture being taken. Is someone in a dispute over child support?
Did anyone consider the possibility that Adrian Peterson was trying to send a message to Baby Mama rather than discipline the 4-year-old? I believe he sent her a message afterward detailing all the damage. He must resent paying that child support and maybe having to have the kid visit and mix with his “real kids”? He hadn’t even met the 2-year-old son (by another Baby Mama) who was killed last year.
I decided to look it up. The pics are from 4 days after.
Looks to me like a couple added for effect prior to the picture being taken. Is someone in a dispute over child support?
I have no fundamental problem with spankings, etc. That said, the issue is not child support or anything else - it's Peterson going waaaay overboard. You don't beat a kid.
No excuses for Peterson on my end.
He has at least 7 kids from 5 women. He is better off being neutered...
and leveling the racial demographics on the rosters...
You want to use a wooden spoon. My grandma was a pro.
My dad used his Pledge Paddle from his college fraternity. He actually broke it on my brothers buttocks and he deserved it too.
Don’t use the oranges. You can cause p p p p permanent damage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvhap1vcLDw
Your parents done Good! They also seemed to have accomplished all that without the input and opinions of thousands of busybodies that lacked skin in the game.
“Seems as if a few dedicated activists with Facebook and Twitter accounts can make the society dance like a marionette on strings.”
With the help of the national media...
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