Adrian Peterson compares the NFL to "modern day slavery"

[Boltergeist]

Come on, if it were really slavery, the Vikings would've beaten the fumbling problems out of him a long time ago

[Awesomeness!!]

lol @ Clausen being a slave.

[SCP]

Clausen is a slave to Justin Beeber music.

[Mr. Scot]

"Slave to" or victim of"?

Our Super Bowl viewing party included the 13 year old daughter of one of my friends. When the Justin Bieber commercial came on, anyone within ten feet of her lost an eardrum.

[SCP]

I didn't know how to spell Bieber :(

[Stumpy]

I didn't know how to spell Bieber :(

+32

[Doc Holiday]

Quoted in PFT (link)

The comments were made to Yahoo's Doug Farrar, who pulled them from the posted interview (link) saying he wanted to give Peterson the opportunity to "clarify" his comments.

What a fuging self important idiot, I would probably be lucky to make in my lifetime what he probably makes a year, and then to have the nerve to say it's like slave labour, attitude like this is why I didn't like Kris Jenkins.

Most of these idiots have never had to deal with a real issue or problem in they're entire life, and when something so minor happens to them they act as if they have it tougher then anyone else.

I don't care who win the labour fight I just want to watch Football, but idiot statements like this make me wish the NFL owners would win and stick it to the players really badly.

[pantherj]

No now wait a minute, I think AP has a point. After a game players have bathe in regular stadium water (gross), rather than the Dom Perignon they prefer. I mean that's sort of like bathing in your own blood, sweat, and tears, while slapping some mud on your scared back to try and cool off. And what about the pathetic $20,000,000 mansions in which they have to live? All while the greedy 'masters' live luxuriously in their $30,000,000 mansions. That's kinda like 20 male slaves packed together, passed out in a sh!t shack, while the master rapes their wives in his mansion. AP you've hit the nail on the head.

[KaseKlosed]

whats the point of talking about this, everyone knows AP is not a historical political figure of any kind or an activist. hes a million dollar running back with an opinion.....

[JawnyBlaze]

I'm not even gonna comment on his actual comment. Enough has been said. I just wanted to comment on the line of thinking I saw about restricted work opportunities blahblahblah, in other words signing a CONTRACT (legally binding, voluntary promises) and being required to fulfill it.

Think about it: if rather than the current (recent past?) system, players got to work under 1 year agreements or something like that, something that allows them from one season to the next move to whatever team he wants the sport wouldn't be watchable. You'd have all the best players pulling Lebron/DWade/Bosh stunts. The Cowboys would win the Super Bowl 2 out of every 3 years at least. Having reasonable CONTRACTS promotes parity just as much as salary caps.

I know most of us here realize this, but the existence of contracts seems to be the only thing he could compare to slavery and it's ridiculous if he doesn't see how necessary (and common in the workforce) they are.

/stepdownfromsoapbox

[CRA]

What if Peyton would have said the same thing??

then we would probably be hearing from Jesse and Al......Peyton would have tons of people breathing down his neck.

[Johnny Rockets]

Cowherd just had a short segment on this topic and something he pointed out that was a bit interesteing is that Eric Shelton makes $9K a month in pension from the NFL. How long did he play? $100K+ a year and that is for the rest of his life I presume?

[The Saltman]

damn 9k a month? thats pretty freaking good.

[Johnny Rockets]

damn 9k a month? thats pretty freaking good.

That was my thought also...think he said the avg. retired NFL player pension is close to $15K a month. Many are tax free depending on the state they live in. If that is true, not bad considering the avg. career of an NFL player is around 3 1/2 years.

BTW...as a side note, after commercial he is going to talk about why Cam Netwon to Carolina is almost automatic based on some info he has....take it for what it's worth.