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

Boofuckinghoo.

 

If everybody keeps their mouths shut, the players come out looking a lot better than the owners.

When players start making dumbass comments like this, the players lose a little more support at a time.

Hopefully this is the worst thing any player will say during the lockout. We'll see. Twitter may make sure that's not the case.

 

I believe Ryan Grant was echoing what most of us are saying on what the players should do: shut up and stop using bad analogies to describe what's going on.

http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcnorth/post/_/id/25253/ryan-grant-totally-disagree-with-peterson

The more that Mawae and some of the players keep talking tough, and that their comments are not on the same page, the more De Smith needs to put a gag on them right now.

We haven't heard an owner utter a word since Jerry Richardson on Friday when talks broke down.

 

Well, there's the difference between billionaires and millionaires: discipline.

 

Up next: the players to compare the owners to Hitler.

 

Question asked out of genuine ignorance .... is there another professional sport where the players contracts are not guaranteed?

 

As a reminder: The NFL players' average career is something like 2.6 years, they don't have guaranteed contracts, adequate pensions or adequate healthcare. And most of them walk away crippled.

That they wouldn't agree to the owners taking back a billion dollars off the top and adding two games to the season should come as no surprise to anyone.

I support their effort.

 

As do most people, which is why keeping quiet right now is the best thing they can do. Let Smith and a few hand-picked union reps talk and avoid any PR damage.

 

I agree with this sentiment. And I have read some of the legal writings that maybe the owners' lockout will be banned by injunction or some other court-supervised intervention. However, if this turns into a staredown between the owners and the players, I'd be less surprised by a 16 beating a 1 this weekend than by the players winning through negotiation. Their careers aren't long enough to sit out, the pool of replacements is too long, and most of all they're too damn stupid with their money to have any of it left come September, and they're going to need the paychecks.

 

Exactly. So just STFU and quit killing a potentially decided public opinion advantage.

 

They're not "most people;" they're uniquely gifted human beings who, in a market economy, command sums of money "most people" can't imagine. Perhaps somebody said something stupid, as you correctly point out. However, there's no question the players are on the right side of this issue.

That we take a dumb quote from some rank-and-file player and elevate it to any level of importance relative to the overall story is sad commentary about us.

 

Why don't you reread that sentence and tell me again whom "most people" refers to.