Adrian Peterson Sets Twitter On Fire

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May 28, 2015
Image courtesy of Vikings.com

I know, I know… you’re sick of Adrian Peterson, the drama surrounding him, and our inability to not post about it. As true as that might be for a lot of you, I can promise you that we are not exactly enjoying this particular storyline, and we’ll have a very special article posted Friday morning that will be a great chance to take a break from the Peterson nonsense.

Seriously, you’ll want to be here tomorrow morning to witness one of the best, if not the best, articles we’ve ever posted here at VT.

In the meantime, our star running back took to Twitter Thursday afternoon to vent some frustrations and the result was a cyclone of speculation spewing venom in just about every possible direction.

 

At this point, Peterson took about a three hour break from the Twitter machine and people naturally judged, one way or the other, what Peterson was trying to say. The one sentiment that seemed to be a consensus, even online where such a thing is as rare as a unicorn, is that Peterson’s social media comments were as poorly timed as they were ill-advised.

The remarks are reminiscent of his “modern day slavery” comments that caused a stir in advance of the new Collective Bargaining Agreement being signed four years ago. His feelings are as valid as anybody’s, but the facts are that the NFLPA agreed to an agreement that allowed for non-guaranteed contacts that also determine the ramifications, if there are any, of releasing a player.

In fact, the NFL’s entire system promises nearly half of their workforce to receive pink slips on an annual basis when teams are forced to trim their rosters prior to the regular season. Peterson, a contractual anomaly in today’s NFL, gains little support from the masses when the perception is out there that he is complaining about finances.

Later in the evening, Peterson’s Twitter account clarified (with suddenly improved punctuation and grammar) that his musings were not directed at his own contractual situation.

 

Peterson’s call to action is oddly timed, but plenty of people will agree with this final point that the NFL’s contracts are not up to snuff with others in the world of professional sports, but he was a part of the group of men that opted to forego a prolonged strike in 2011 and change is more likely to come from union elections and political sway than from rambling and somewhat cryptic social media tirades.

Time will tell just how satisfied Peterson is with his current contract and situation in Minnesota, and just how far he is willing to go to do something about it, but the longer this situation drags on the more fans will tire of the whole thing.

The NFL has always been a “what have you done for me lately?” league, and all Peterson has done lately is provide a sideshow to the main event, which simply cannot continue into August and September.