We think it's probably pretty safe to say that Adrian Peterson is just one of the many NFL players that's not real happy with the NFL owners right now. How do we know? Well, he said as much during a recent interview with Yahoo's Shutdown Corner blog when he was asked about it—and he made sure that he didn't leave any question over the way he felt about it, even if he had to go to the extreme to do it. "It's modern-day slavery, you know?" he said. "People kind of laugh at that, but there are people working at regular jobs who get treated the same way, too. With all the money...the owners are trying to get a different percentage, and bring in more money...I understand that; it's how they got to where they are now. But as players, we have to stand our ground and say, 'Hey—without us, there's no football.'" Yikes. So, should we start planning for lonely Sunday afternoons this fall now—or what? [Shutdown Corner, via Huffington Post]
Adrian Peterson Compares Playing in the NFL to Slavery
By Chris Yuscavage | Mar 16, 2011 | 11:00 am | Permalink
Alexander Webb March 16th, 2011 at 11:51 AM
Come on though, AP, did you really have to compare it to slavery of all the analogies you could have come up with...? I do share the same dislike for the owners and what they're trying to do right now but not the best choice of words...not applicable nor politically correct.
godivine March 16th, 2011 at 05:31 PM
I'm sure that I will get backlash from some cornball but, the key word here is "Modern" nothing that has been "Modernized" can truly be compared directly to the past. When something has become modern it is in most cases advanced. Slavery was an act, a way of thinking and most importantly a system implemented to gain means (money/wealth) while systematically destroying a race meaning hindering a natural growth of one’s true self. So AP is SOMEWHAT correct in his analogy. The owners undoubtedly use these players to gain money while offering a small (compared to their gains) salary for a dangerous job. He just needed expand on his analogy a little further because when someone hears the word slavery they turn off the rational intuitive part of their brain. There are numerous other work fields where this same "modern" day slavery is very much alive. 100