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View Poll Results: Grade the signing of Adrian Peterson (5 the best, 1 the worst) | |||
5 | 11 | 26.19% | |
4 | 10 | 23.81% | |
3 | 13 | 30.95% | |
2 | 3 | 7.14% | |
1 | 1 | 2.38% | |
0 | 4 | 9.52% | |
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08-23-2018, 07:45 AM | #136 |
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Re: Redskins Signing Adrian Peterson
I looked at the pics of the wounds of the kid online. If those pics don't piss you off then so be it. The excuse that he did that cause he was raised that way is a weak one. I don't want him on the team I root for. Go to Dallas or the Bengals.
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08-23-2018, 08:59 AM | #137 | |
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I agree with an awful lot of what you are saying here. However, and it is a big however, we do know for a fact that he beat a four year old all over his body and on his nut sack with a stick so bad that he needed hospitalization. That is not opinion. That is not conjecture. That is a fact. So as for your very last paragraph, well that is simply not the case. There is just nothing else that you could tell me about AP or the incident that would make that less evil of an act. I do not need to know more about the man to better form my opinion of how i feel about what he did. |
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08-23-2018, 09:07 AM | #138 | |
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08-23-2018, 09:19 AM | #139 | |
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I never intended to discuss that. My point simply is, as a football fan, I don't consider my role is to morally judge the players. I try to have an opinion on their football performances... and I already manage to sometimes be wrong about that, so I won't venture in evaluating them as individuals... I leave that to the justice system. Now, I would feel very different about it had he not been legally punished. But he has been, so for me it's now between him, his consciousness, his close ones and his God if he believes in one, none of which is my business.
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08-23-2018, 09:41 AM | #140 | |
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Even if he had not been punished legally (the punishment was a joke btw) i would still agree with your last paragraph there. This was the comment you made in your previous post, I'm just expressing my discomfort with today's common habit of everybody voicing opinions about an act and the person committing that act, without knowing a lot about neither of the two. Now, that has nothing to do with football does it? That is what my post was in reply to specifically. We know alot about the act. We know he did it. We have seen pictures. And again i dont need to know anything else about AP. Look there are two ways to look at this signing, from a football perspective and from a moral perspective- as in “do i want to root for someone I consider to be a bad guy”? I have absolutely no problem with it as a football move, and for what we paid him and what was available I think you are nuts if you do. As for a moral perspective I can actually see both sides. Totally understand why you would not want to see good things happen for this man - on or off the field. Also totally understand that no matter what happens on the field it will not change what he did - and God (whatever it is as you put it) is his ultimate judge not Redskin fans. I think my dream scenario here is that they win the Superbowl and AP gets cut due to a scrotum laceration in his first game. Ahhhh sweet justice. |
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08-23-2018, 10:03 AM | #141 | |
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In the end we all think what he did was wrong, and we all want the Skins to win the SB. The only difference is I won't feel bad about cheering when/if he scores a TD for us, because I don't consider I must have an opinion about him as a person when I'm watching a game. I was wrong to imply we cannot have an opinion on what he did, we definitely can, what I meant is I don't feel I can, nor should, morally judge his overall life, because I don't know him and am not paying for what he is but for what he does on the field. Envoyé de mon SM-J320FN en utilisant Tapatalk
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08-23-2018, 10:10 AM | #142 |
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Re: Redskins Signing Adrian Peterson
This thread is depressing. The only thing I don't like about the signing is how divisive it is. That has nothing to do with whether a player will help us win games, which ideally is the only thing that matters. He's legally allowed to play and the NFL has cleared him to play. So I'm 100% fine with him playing if he can produce. My stance typically is if he/she is legally cleared and/or served his/her legal punishment already, then the matter is done with. I've never physically abused someone but I have a million of my own past sins that thank God don't dictate the rest of my future. Hopefully regardless of our personal opinions we all stick together here and root for the Skins like its 1999.
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08-23-2018, 10:17 AM | #143 | |
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Before we both stop beating this dead horse(no pun intended ) let me just ask you one question, let us say that it was a close friend or family member that he had abused, would that make it hard for you to cheer for him? |
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08-23-2018, 10:42 AM | #144 | |
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If I knew a person was continuing the acts, no I wouldn't cheer for him, would wonder why the NFL allowed him to continue playing, and if close enough to have proof that evil acts continued, I would do what I could to keep him from working. If I knew the same person was indeed contrite, and had "paid his dues" and made restitution as best as he could, I would try to help him back on his feet. |
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08-23-2018, 11:23 AM | #145 | |
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I thought I was supposed to be the liberal. Lol. You are a lot more forgiving than i am CRED. If someone beats a kid that bad - whether it is mine or not - there aint no helping him back on his feet coming out of me. I admire your ability to forgive and forget though. I mean that. I have a real tough time getting past the thought of an innocent 4 year old child bleeding from his scrotum and entire body and the pain and horror he must have endured. Also the mental scar that can leave you with for the rest of your life. |
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08-23-2018, 11:49 AM | #146 | |
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The mental scars are far worse than the physical abuse. This is why some family's have generations of abuse. |
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08-23-2018, 12:10 PM | #147 | |
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08-23-2018, 12:36 PM | #148 |
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Re: Redskins Signing Adrian Peterson
He's a redskin now. Out of our hands
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08-23-2018, 12:46 PM | #149 | |
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It is not my role to act as if I was close to that kid. If we all did that all the time, it would be the end of justice, society, people having second chances etc... Now, as Isaid, I do think I understand and respect your POV, and as you said, that dead horse has been beaten to a second death... so let it rest in peace ... have a nice one, and HTTR my friend ! Envoyé de mon SM-J320FN en utilisant Tapatalk
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08-23-2018, 12:50 PM | #150 |
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Re: Redskins Signing Adrian Peterson
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...re-disturbing/
I probably read this a few years ago, but just wanted to refresh my memory of what exactly went down for the sake of my current thoughts on this guy now that I will be watching him play every weekend. Really seems like , at least at one point, this guy had some real issues. Maybe he has changed. Who knows. |
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