Adrian Peterson compares NFL lockout to "modern-day slavery"

I have no doubt that what both Upshaw and Tags realized, was that once they lost control of deal and it went out to players and owners stupidity would reign.

The deal the cut is now looking better by the day as lockout goes on.

 

In retrospect, Tags should get a lot more credit for keeping a lid on the simmering tensions between the Jerrahs and Snyders and the Ralph Wilsons and Mike Browns. Goodell has been pathetically incapable of doing that.

 

Both Upshaw and Tags were lawyers and handled things in a lawyerly manner in the best interests of their clients.

 

And the momentum in the PR war the owners have been losing will be squarely on their side after a few more of these idiotic comments.

Antonio Cromartie has kids to feed!

 

He does realize that a lockout forces him to not work, right?

 

If players union has been decertified then they no longer have the right to negotiate on behalf of all player right?

 

Owners have the advantage now, since players will say and do some dunb things.
As the season approaches and fans see the padlocks, and really start asking hard questions about why there's no football, it goes to the players.

 

you am correct, them am no longer certified to negotiate on behalf of all player.

 

Pro athletes equating their lot to slavery is getting to be like people throwing around the Nazi or Hitler card to someone who disagrees with them. It was dumb the first time someone thought of it and it gets even dumber with every subsequent reference,

Of course in the case of comparing a pro athlete to slavery, isn't Bill Rhoden the first dummy in the chain.?

 

You want something to drink with your hyperbole?

 

The players are players. They are given exorbinant amounts of $$$ to risk their bodies at amazing speeds. There is a reason they (for the most part) are not great at taking political stands; it comes out like this. At least Jesse Jackson was marginally close to slavery. AD, not so much.

Paging Mr. Smith to the white courtesy telephone, "tell your clients to STFU NOW!!! and let you do your job."

 

Pro sports is one of the few jobs where you don't get to pick where you work when you start, in a lot of cases you end up stuck there for life. Yeah - I know, the money. But you are an athlete, you are competitive by nature and you are stuck playing for a cruddy team BECAUSE you are their best player.
Sure, it isn't slavery, but I know a few journos that spent a few years working their way up with ladder with main drive being to get back to their home region nearer their family and friends.