Adrian Peterson: Modern Day Slave.

It took a lot of guts to post this piece. In our modern-day politically correct world, those who are right…far too often don’t speak up.

Gotta love making typos when criticizing other people’s comments.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Adrian-Peterson-expresses-frustration-on-labor-i;_ylt=AnISsKggjh8YsSAYVwKTLC5DubYF?urn=nfl-wp206

What a joke AD is if he really believes this…

Literally. You could whip me with a bullwhip, work me from sunup to sundown 7 days a week (hell, longer), starve me and everything. And all this guy has to do is play football. Poor thing.

I feel the owners actually wanted to bargain and come up with a new CBA while the players wanted all along to go to litigation.

"Respect feels as important as $10 million and the players don’t have it from the owners"

If this is the type of statements that need to be made to attempt to defend the players then it should be plain to all how ridiculous they’re being.

Respect from owners = paying players millions of dollars.

Respect from players = taking the team owners to court and using the violence of government to try and force them to pay you more!!
 

"They might as well be a stable of thoroughbreds .. or slaves .. in that respect."

"Still, AP is perhaps a one-in-a-billion talent (at RB). Heck, even Alan Ball is a one-in-a-million talent. And the owners? Collectively our BTB editorial staff could do a better job of running the NFL for a very small commission on what the players coax out of us fans."

So you think playing football at a high level is a near irreplaceable skill despite the fact the players, even premier ones (especially running backs), are routinely replaced by the next ‘best thing ever’ every few years. But successful owners and managers of multi-billion dollar business’s, despite the fact that they’re a genuinely rare phenomenon, could be replaced by just about any group of guys on a blog. That’s a joke right??

"The best solution that respects the game is to decide a fair ticket price ($25) and the number of commercials we must endure in a game (10 mins per half), then split the result in proportion to their contribution … players 90%, owners 10%."

There’s so many things wrong here I don’t know where to begin. Do you understand the concepts of liberty, ownership and private property?

"So who are the real "slaves" in the CBA process? The F-A-N-S."

Perhaps you’re still not quite sure what slave means (I put some definitions in my post, go have a read). There are NO slaves in this process at all. The word slave being used in this situation is, well I’ll say it again, if it isn’t pure hyperbole then it’s just plain foolish.

there is the CFL, UFL, AFL if he just does not like the NFL

and i dont disagree that they have gripes as you put it, but calling it modern day slavery is a very poor choice of words.

He doesn’t have to play in the NFL, it’s his choice. When these players say crap like I’m a slave, I want to throw up. They’re playing a game that most of us would play for free if giving the chance, and did in HS and college. Let him try his skills in the real world and see how he likes slavery in the NFL then. You want fries with that burger.

If someone offers to pay you $10Ms for a job and a other guys offer you peanuts, who are you going to choose to work with?

My guess is that you’re going to choose to be $10Ms richer.

There are other options to play football for money, they don’t pay as well, but as far as I know, slaves don’t get paid at all.

This type of statement just gets made again and again and it’s simply wrong (and bizarre!). It’s not even debatable. He, just like all the players, has multiple choices. He has the CHOICE to leave the NFL anytime he wants. He has the choice to pursue any other job in the world that appeals to him. But he WANTS to play in the NFL. It is his first choice.

To claim players have no choice is akin to claiming the earth is flat. It’s silly because we simply know that it is not true. It’s not even debatable.

He signed a contracted after being drafted which obligated him to one team he never had to do anything that’s absurd. He could of pulled a eli manning he could of held out and re-entered the draft the following year. Nobody made him sign a multimillion dollar contract and nobody made him enter the draft his choices. If I remember slaves don’t get really get a choice on anything that’s why there slaves.

is want you are saying?

But during my limited lifetime, the bosses of my different jobs have made unilateral decisions that go in their favour.

Hell, if I end up owning a business I’ll do the same. If you want to take over the responsability of being an owner of something, it’s because you want to make something out of it.

And most owners want to make money.

Really?! The owners should make decisions that benefit anything but the bottom line? The players absolutely have no legitimate gripe what so ever.

What do they have to gripe over, are they tired of making on avg 770k a year with the potential to make 10s of millions. Are they tired of having an avg career of 3.5 years in which they will gross 2.3 million dollars at the avg age of 26? Are they tired of being financially independent? Are they tired of not having to get a job after the leave the NFL at the ripe old age of mid 20’s and able to retire?

You get my point. The owners are doing nothing but trying to preserve the game for the future by having the foresight to get in check player salaries. They are not limiting the amount a player can make but just trying to put it in balance to the growth of expenses. A player still will make more than the previous year because of how the system is set up.

While the players currently are thinking of the small picture with tunnel vision and are just trying to get theirs now, not caring of what will happen to the league and the players 5, 10, 15 years from now.

Not something new.

And I would add, they don’t get to decide everything. The union has to agree to a good number of those things, like drug testing. I think people get confused trying to see football as some sort of exception to normal business practices.

You’re part of this community, but I think you’re confusing a great many people with these comments. A good portion of this nation has been looking at their jobs through rose colored lenses. The simple fact is that the owners are just that; they own the company. The players do not own the company, just as workers of jobs do not own the company, and are therefore, not going to reap the profits of that company. If you want to reap the profits, go start a business, then tell us all how you feel when your workers start demanding all of your profits. Somehow, based on your replies to others, I don’t see you suddenly agreeing.

slaves had no choices. Well one, try to run away and most of the times fail and get killed. We all have choices

It’s a side topic of the big CBA one. So, it has a lot to do with the Cowboys.

I’m willing to guess that Adrian Peterson’s point of view is shared by quite a few players and that it’s one of the problems in this impasse.

that was awesome. Public schools did not teach me to talk like that. I wish I could though. I am now smarter for reading that. I have the exact opposite reaction then from that Billy Madison scene haha.

This is, literally, the greatest comment ever posted on SBN.

:p

and as soon as the lockout happened I stated that in an article. The owners are going to win the PR battle because it’s sooo much easier to keep 33 grown businessmen from saying damaging comments than it is to keep 1500 23 year olds from saying dumb ish.

I’m sure all the people condemning Peterson NEVER made an extremely stupid analogy when they were 23 about their position in the world. ::rolls eyes::

It already had recs before I saw it, it was too late for me haha