Slavery??????

[ToDaClub]

MINNEAPOLIS — The labor conflict between the NFL and its players is already contentious, but Minnesota Vikings All-Pro running back Adrian Peterson (AP) took things to a new level with comments he made in a published interview.

Speaking to Yahoo! Sports moments after the NFL players union decertified Friday, Peterson compared the NFL’s treatment of players to “modern-day slavery” and said the players are getting “robbed” by the owners.

Peterson, who is scheduled to make $10.72 million in base salary in 2011, made those statements when asked about the NFL lockout and legal fight between the two sides.

[kbsooner21]

I don't really have a problem with what he said. Another example of the media blowing things out of proportion. The owners are greedy fucks!

[ToDaClub]

If anyone here at BC is looking for a slave, I'm available for 10 million a year. Comments like this do not help the players gets sympathy from the general public. Reminds me of Sprewell some years back turning down 4 million a year cause he couldn't feed his kids. Do these athletes really know what the real world is???

[ToDaClub]

I don't really have a problem with what he said. Another example of the media blowing things out of proportion. The owners are greedy fucks!

But they are the owners! If you own a business, do you want your employees to tell you how much money you can make?

[vols fan]

He just used the wrong words IMO. Blacks use the word slaves when there trying to get a point across. If black slaves were making 10 million a year I feel very confident that my great great grandfather would have been painting himself black every day

[10DimeBry]

I don't really have a problem with what he said. Another example of the media blowing things out of proportion. The owners are greedy fucks!

when did you turn into a lib?


I'd love to dictate to my boss what I make. He'd look at me .....pause......laugh and tell me to find another job.