Its modern-day slavery, you know? Minnesotas Adrian Peterson said of the NFL. People kind of laugh at that, but there are people working at regular jobs who get treated the same way, too.
I think I've heard other football players say similar things in the past.
I wish I could find the quote from the other guy who said it because he made a much more compelling case for drawing the parallel.
Compelling? You mean he actually managed to somehow draw a credible parallel between athletes drawing a minimum of $285,000.00 per year and a slave? Whose only travel restrictions are to be on hand for practices and games? Whose only employment restrictions involve which NFL team they will play for SNIPPPP.
Dude is supposed to make $10 mil this year. If that's slavery...sign me up.
This guy is now on my list of athletes that need to DIAF.
http://www.amazon.com/Forty-Million-...dp/0307353141/
Also, anyone who has ever worked in fast food or retail can attest to that too, re: "...but there are people working at regular jobs who get treated the same way, too.
Oh, he might have. Upside down...He just made it well known that he is an idiot and has never picked up a history book.
what a dumbass. i foresee an apology from him in the near future.
I'm with rudeguy. Country is in a recession and the NFL is going to strike because they don't think they're making enough millions of dollars. Ridiculous.
All he had to do was say the owners were greedy assholes who want a disproportionate amount of revenue. Instead, he now looks like a tard by pulling the race card. Grats.
LOL, the recession BS? Seriously? Regardless of the country's economic standpoint, the NFL continue to get make more each season. Yet, for some reason, the players should be content and let the owners take more of the money. Sorry, I don't buy it. People go to watch football players play, nothing else. In a sport that makes billions, I don't see it out of line that 53 players should get 50+% of the revenue. They are the ones that make it a billion dollar industry, they're the ones with the talent to be there.
Race card? You do realize white people are players in the NFL also... right? He said slavery. Meaning, the players are property of the owner. They're commodities, possessions to be bartered with, etc. Very few players in the NFL have the right to dictate where they go if the team no longer needs/wants them, and the ones that do don't actually have the right, they simply have a front office that would like to play ball in a fitting way for the player. Further, many players enter the NFL in a 4 year contract for league minimum (or fairly close to it), and when that contract is up, the team has the right to offer a tender to the player to keep them around for another year at a fairly modest salary in most cases. This type of thing happened to Vincent Jackson of the Chargers.
Race card? You do realize white people are players in the NFL also... right? He said slavery. Meaning, the players are property of the owner. They're commodities, possessions to be bartered with, etc. Very few players in the NFL have the right to dictate where they go if the team no longer needs/wants them, and the ones that do don't actually have the right, they simply have a front office that would like to play ball in a fitting way for the player. Further, many players enter the NFL in a 4 year contract for league minimum (or fairly close to it), and when that contract is up, the team has the right to offer a tender to the player to keep them around for another year at a fairly modest salary in most cases. This type of thing happened to Vincent Jackson of the Chargers.
I'm with rudeguy. Country is in a recession and the NFL is going to strike because they don't think they're making enough millions of dollars. Ridiculous.
slavery was a poor choice of wording due the connotations it still has in this society, and beacuse 90% of people(including most of this board) think all NFL players make 10+ mil a year and have huge houses all over and drive tons of ferraris