Adrian Peterson calls NFL "modern day slavery"

[IceBergSLiM]

LOL! Does he realize slaves weren't paid?

 

[Exterous]

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

I am not sure what what the bolded has to do with anything. League minimum is hardly slavery either

 

[MotF Bane]

If he wasn't athletically gifted, he'd be flipping burgers at best. What an idiot.

 

[DrunkenSano]

It's sad how complete morons can earn million these days. If it was slavery, I'd like to sign up please.

 

[crownjules]

there is 1 reason that the NFL is not even REMOTELY close to slavery in any sense at all ... not even close.

THEY FUCKING CHOSE TO PLAY IN THE NFL, THEY WERE NOT FORCED AND AGREED TO THE TERMS OF THE NFL BEFORE THEY CHOSE TO PLAY IN IT!

Also slaves wouldn't get paid a penny.

 

[darkxshade]

I agree with him, any black man who has to do anything to earn a dollar is a slave and Obama should be the poster boy.

 

[Glitchny]

Most expensive slave ever

 

[TheSlamma]

Damn I want to be a slave

 

[jonks]

LOL! Does he realize slaves weren't paid?

uh, excuse me, but cold bacon is damn fine currency in any century.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Purple Jesus says "Let my people go free!"?

 

[wheresmybacon]

I'd like to take the league minimum to be a slave, please.

 

[Stuxnet]

What a twat.

Don't like your "slavery" situation, AP? Quit, asshole... name one slave who was allowed to do THAT.

Again for the record: twat.

 

[SP33Demon]

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.

The player who used the term slavery is black and the majority of the owners are white. It's pretty obvious he pulled the race card given his frame of reference and the fact that the majority of players are black and the majority of owners are white. Amazed that you didn't pick this up.

 

[mmntech]

Damn... If he's a slave, what am I? Why are a bunch of millionaires unionized anyway? You play a dumb game, you don't work on a job site.

 

[Marinski]

And this is why I dont agree with the players on this. Youre getting millions of dollars to play a kids game. Shut up and be happy you don't have to bust your ass for peanuts like everybody else whos paying your salaries.

 

[Deeko]

Adrian Peterson is now officially an incredibly stupid man.

The players had a lot of sympathy from the media & the fans in this debate, but its getting to their heads, and they are getting ridiculous. Between threatening to boycott the draft, and now this, they're quickly eroding their standing with the public...

 

[DrunkenSano]

I hope all the dumb overpaid NFL douchebags get a huge pay cut. They shouldn't be getting paid over a million by the NFL. They should focus on playing well because it will give them chances to be in advertisements which is where their money should be coming from. I hope AP gets some sort of severe injury that ends his career soon so he doesn't have to be a 'slave' anymore. Fuck him.

 

[Zargon]

I am not sure what what the bolded has to do with anything. League minimum is hardly slavery either

no but it doesnt make you 'wealthy' or 'rich'

 

[cheezy321]

no but it doesnt make you 'wealthy' or 'rich'

Is playing the NFL supposed to be your automatic ticket to wealth and riches?

 

[Bateluer]

Idiot.

 

[gimmewhitecastles]

I think he should change his nick to Adrian "Part-Time" Peterson. We wouldn't want to work him like a slave.

 

[surfsatwerk]

And this is why I dont agree with the players on this. Youre getting millions of dollars to play a kids game. Shut up and be happy you don't have to bust your ass for peanuts like everybody else whos paying your salaries.

Problem is their employer owns a monopoly. And the product the players' produce comes at great cost to their bodies. It's not slavery but their union does have reasonable issues with the owners.

 

[Deeko]

Problem is their employer owns a monopoly. And the product the players' produce comes at great cost to their bodies. It's not slavery but their union does have reasonable issues with the owners.

See, here's the thing. There's a massive difference between a union having justified strife with the owners, and calling voluntarily playing a sport for millions of dollars slavery.

 

[ElFenix]

quality OU education right there. gg, sooners.

 

[surfsatwerk]

See, here's the thing. There's a massive difference between a union having justified strife with the owners, and calling voluntarily playing a sport for millions of dollars slavery.

Which is why AP is a dildo and hopefully the rest of the players remind him to kindly stfu.