OT: NFL Satire from The Daily Norseman

Submitted by GoWings2008 on

A friend of mine, someone some folks may know as he's also a frequent contributor on Off Tackle Empire and osu fan, also writes for the Minnesota Vikings blog, The Daily Norseman.  Provided for some lighthearted and pretty damn funny satire regarding the Adrian Peterson situation is the following link:  http://www.dailynorseman.com/2014/11/7/7173073/roger-goodell-adrian-peterson-suspension-child-abuse-case  ENJOY!!

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November 7th, 2014 at 1:57 PM ^

The hand wringing from knuckle dragging child beating apologists on Daily Norseman at the height of the AP fervor was unbelievable.  Ted Glover was the only author over there with any conviction about cutting ties.  Now everyone, including Glover has backed off and they are laughing about a serial child beater again.  Can't wait to see him suit up!  

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tedglover

November 7th, 2014 at 2:31 PM ^

I wish the Vikings would release him and be done with it, but that's not my call. But now that his case has been adjudicated, the NFL needs to make a decision on what to do with him, and if the Vikings want him back on the team, you can make an argument that the 8 games on the Commissioner's Exempt List could serve as a defacto suspension. Will the NFLPA win that argument? I have no idea, but if I was an NFLPA attorney, I'd like my chances.

My beef is with the ham fisted approach Roger Goodell doles out punishment in the NFL, and that's what I'm making fun of. I have no desire to see Peterson as a Viking based on what he did. 

But I don't get to make that call. And I've been a Vikings fan for close to 50 years, and I will continue to be one whether Peterson plays for the Vikings or not.

 

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ijohnb

November 7th, 2014 at 3:21 PM ^

is the issue.  Adrian Peterson being a good dad and not beating his kid has no bearing on his ability to perform his job description, Ray Rice being an upstanding citizen has no bearing on how well he plays football.  So, the idea of "doling out punishment" for these acts, specifically before a conviction is really a novelty to the NFL right now.  In most professions, and for the most part, throughout the history of sport, discipline is reserved for situations where a person engages in conduct unbecoming of their job description, i.e., reflects poor on them being able to do what they are paid to do.  Lawyers are sanctioned when they abuse their fiduciary duties and steal money.  Doctors are punished if they perform surgery on a patient under the influence of alcohol.  Athletes are punished if they commit acts that unfairly influence the game or give themselves a competitive advantage (gambling, PEDs).  This idea that athletes need to receive on-field punishment for off the field conduct, while not unprecedented, is certainly a relatively new development.  Kobe Bryant did not miss a game during a rape investigation.  College players don't miss games during criminal investigations! 

I am not a Goodell fan, but people do need to realize that he this is kind of a round peg-square hole situation.  Football player don't have to be good people to play good football.  If I was watching the Good People game, Adrian Peterson would not be a very good player, but I'm not, I'm watching the football game.  And I'm just not that sure what one has to do with the other, particularly when the criminal justice system, not the NFL, is tasked with determining that the punishment for certain acts should be.

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