Just so everybody knows, Adrian Peterson WILL NOT play Sunday.

[NaturalHigh]

Adrian Peterson, the star Minnesota Vikings running back charged with child abuse, surrendered to Montgomery County, Tex., authorities early Saturday morning and was freed on $15,000 bond.

Peterson flew to Houston on Friday night after practicing with the Vikings earlier in the day. A warrant had been issued for Peterson’s arrest Friday afternoon, one day after he was true-billed — indicted, essentially — by a Montgomery County grand jury on a single count of injuring a child. The team listed him as inactive for Sunday’s game against the New England Patriots at Minneapolis.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/sports/vikings-peterson-is-booked-on-charge-of-child-abuse.html

I'm glad he's out. I feel guilty for being such a big fan for so many years.

[NaturalHigh]

1. Also, it's time to stop saying he "disciplined" his son.

"The charges stemmed from Peterson’s disciplining his 4-year-old son in May in Spring, Tex., with a small tree branch, commonly called a switch."

What Peterson admitted to is beating his son. It's child abuse, not discipline.

[hexola]

2. It's about time to stop referring to this child as his son!

The abused child was his girlfriends kid - nothing "parental" about his status/role.

I think that detail makes his actions more sinister...

[NaturalHigh]

5. Really? I didn't know that.

Everything I've seen referred to the boy as his son.

[hexola]

6. I dunno - it was in another thread...

A quick read of some articles makes it sound a bit cloudy - although they do refer to him as "his son"...

There were references to the child calling Adrian, "Daddy Peterson" - which sounds a bit odd...

[tblue37]

17. If the child's mother has custody, and if the mother has a husband

or boyfriend who lives with them and whom the child calls Daddy also, then the little boy might habitually refer to the noncustodial daddy as "Daddy Peterson.'

I don't know if this is the case, but it is possible, especially if the man the child actually lives with (if, in fact there is a man in the home) has been in the father role to him for most of the time the kid can remember.

[oberliner]

11. The child is his son

Your information is not accurate.

[JEFF9K]

3. I had him pegged as a jerk ...

when he showed-off in college doing a somersault touchdown and breaking his collarbone.

[NaturalHigh]

4. I remember that like it was yesterday.

There was a collective "Oh shit!" from the Sooner Nation.

I haven't seen the local coverage of his arrest yet. No doubt some will excuse it, saying that he's a nice guy, "but I got whupped and I turned out good", etc.

[ScreamingMeemie]

16. The local coverage here in Spring has been from just inside the drive to the station.

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I have a feeling they kept them back so there wouldn't be. It was a sick way to find out he was a neighbor for sure. The people I have talked with are horrified and saddened.

[tblue37]

18. I was very confused for a while by the typo in your subject line. I kept looking for the post

above that referred to the "her" that your post referred to.

[ScreamingMeemie]

19. Edited. Thanks. I claim stupidphone. :)

[tblue37]

20. I had to kill my autocorrect function because it was so hyperactive

that it was turning my posts (and my email messages) into gibberish. It took a while for me to realize that was happening, too, much to my embarrassment.

Ever since I figured out what was going on, I have been hyper aware of obvious autocorrect errors in people's posts--but I think "her" was probably just a typo of the sort that it is so easy to make when using the minuscule keyboards on a cell phone.

But you know how your mind automatically sees what is "supposed" to be there in a line, especially when you read too fast? Well, I saw "her" and my mind supplied a preposition to make the subject line make sense, and then I went looking to see who that "her" was.

[NaturalHigh]

25. I was actually thinking about the press here in Oklahoma.

He's still pretty much a hero here. No doubt some douchebags will defend him in the comments sections.

[Jenoch]

7. Peterson did not practice either Thursday or Friday.

I don't tbink he will play another game in the NFL.

[NaturalHigh]

8. The article says he practiced on Friday.

As for whether or not he plays again, I don't know. A lot of people don't take this as seriously as they take the Ray Rice situation, unfortunately.

[Jenoch]

10. The Twin Cities media reported that he was at the

Vikings training complex but did not participte in the ream practice.

Edit to add: I'm not certain the Vikings would not use this as an opportunity to get out from his huge contract.

[NaturalHigh]

12. Ah, I see.

Very possible that I misread the article.

[randome]

9. Goddamnit, hasn't he suffered enough already?

If we keep 'childfying' this game, we'll ruin it. Since when are people more important than football???

"Everybody is just on their feet screaming 'Kill Kill Kill'! This is hockey!football!"
[hr][font color="blue"][center]You have to play the game to find out why you're playing the game. -Existenz[/center][/font][hr]

[NaturalHigh]

13. "Since when are people more important than football???"

Unfortunately, that's not even a sarcastic comment for some.

[pnwmom]

14. I don't care whether he plays. I care whether he has access to his multiple children.

I hope he's lost custody. And since he's vowed to a reporter to "never eliminate whooping" them, I hope he loses it permanently.

[NaturalHigh]

15. I don't disagree.

I posted the OP because I saw some disagreement in other threads about whether or not he would play on Sunday.

[flvegan]

21. Michael Vick will suit up for the Jets though.

Maybe Peterson can "apologize" and "look sad" because that's all it takes (for some, at least...even here).

Ray Rice, I'm talking to you too.

And to anyone thinking I'm equating the torture of dogs and blowing your wad on starting a dogfighting ring to hitting a woman/child, congratulations! You missed the point.

Violence should be unacceptable, then, now and forever.

[NaturalHigh]

22. Michael Vick is a worthless POS, in my opinion.

I would post some more trenchant comments about him, but they would likely be hidden.

[flvegan]

23. *cheers*

I hope you realize that comment was NOT directed at you, deliberately or otherwise.

[NaturalHigh]

24. Yes, I knew that.

I just get red in the face when I see Michael Vick's name.

[Iggo]

27. Michael Vick went to prison.

[ann---]

26. Good

now take the child away from him so we're not reading this kid's obituary next.