The Goat Pen

He's playing Sunday.

Yeah, I heard that AD's beating was not the kind my mother issued. It sounded so bad, I didn't want to see pics to determine if people were overreacting.

Crazy weekend of comebacks. I'll take it.

Leaves in the mouth seems better than soap. However, tagging the nutlets and/or drawing blood is going too far, IMO...

we got fucked by the refs- PI on their pick then a rediculous horsecollar call on 3rd down

yeah minnseota might want to cut their losses cause AP is looking more and more like a monster. I remember when he lost his kid last year--barely seemed to be affected by it and playing that sunday like nothing happened.

I agree, I read another thing where he hit a kid in a car seat and gave him a sizeable cut on his head. Can't validate the story but damn...the world loves a parent that disciplines, they despise a child beater.

I still say he should be able to play until justice runs it's course. All these Internet stories, until they are verified in a court of law is just honestly hearsay. If he's found guilty, then yes, he deserves whatever the NFL throws his way and I will stand behind them. Until then, c'mon, are we really going to let the media convict him already based on hearsay? Not where I come from. Rice was different. We saw what the NFL saw even though they tried to cover it up and act dumb but the fact is, we saw it. Game over for Rice. Peterson deserves due process in every aspect of the judicial system and then the NFL.

fine line between that and this

Jungle Rat wrote:I still say he should be able to play until justice runs it's course. All these Internet stories, until they are verified in a court of law is just honestly hearsay. If he's found guilty, then yes, he deserves whatever the NFL throws his way and I will stand behind them. Until then, c'mon, are we really going to let the media convict him already based on hearsay? Not where I come from. Rice was different. We saw what the NFL saw even though they tried to cover it up and act dumb but the fact is, we saw it. Game over for Rice. Peterson deserves due process in every aspect of the judicial system and then the NFL.

Very good post, Rat. Strange reading something that actually makes sense coming from you.

Jungle Rat wrote:I still say he should be able to play until justice runs it's course. All these Internet stories, until they are verified in a court of law is just honestly hearsay. If he's found guilty, then yes, he deserves whatever the NFL throws his way and I will stand behind them. Until then, c'mon, are we really going to let the media convict him already based on hearsay? Not where I come from. Rice was different. We saw what the NFL saw even though they tried to cover it up and act dumb but the fact is, we saw it. Game over for Rice. Peterson deserves due process in every aspect of the judicial system and then the NFL.

Peterson has already admitted that he shouldn't have disciplined his child the way he did and now realizes there are alternative methods , this coming from meeting with a psychologist (why is AP seeing a psychologist for whipping a child?)

I believe everything he says but I also believe that they aren't on a witch hunt for him.

It's not so much a witchunt because he came out and spoke the truth about what he believed from his youth experience about dicipline and then after meeting with the shrink he came right out and agreed he was wrong and that there were better ways. Doesn't make him a criminal for doing what he believed. Go to far? Not up to me. I've spanked my kids numerous times. Not hard but enough to get their attention. I've been in their faces at the top of my lungs at times and I've turned off their cell phones at $30 a pop to get their attention. I once accidentally put my elbow into my oldest daughters ribs because she jumped me from behind and bit my back. I still have quick reactions. She flew a few feet. Yet today she lives with me instead of her mom and in a custody hearing today I won full custody. Gonna take a few more months to get the younger one. Mama separation issues doesn't make it a good time.

Wish Crow was here to see this day.

hedge wrote:Leaves in the mouth seems better than soap. However, tagging the nutlets and/or drawing blood is going too far, IMO...

I don't think that would be condoned no matter what era. Seems too extreme.

Then you got the other extreme that comes out of the woodwork when these things happen.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/15/opinion/r ... ?hpt=hp_t3

.....didn't know this

"and new research in the Journal of Family Psychology suggests that the average 4-year-old is hit 936 times a year."

I call bullshit on that...

I call bullshit on Anheuser Busch

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102000808

Let's drink responsibly....

crotch wrote:.....didn't know this

Both of their leaders probably hit below 40% as well.

And now Peterson is not playing.

i have more of a problem with rice not playing then peterson

rice was already thru the legal system met the commissioner sentenced to the 2 game suspension for admitting he popped his wife --case closed. until the media got ahold of it and he was tried and convicted twice of the same offense

the league has stayed out of the peterson case. the only reason peterson isnt playing is because sponsors started pulling out/making noise. the team made the decision which is their right.

If your a team losing money because of a player then you should have the right to bench/suspend or even release him. but until you can prove he did break his contract (conduct off the field) you still have to pay him or release him and take your medicine(pay him money owed). then its up to other teams whether they pick him up (ie michael vick).

the nfl otoh should not get involved until your case is thru the judical system or you are in jail before meting out punishment ---then once that punishment is decided if there are no additional charges that punishment should not be altered because the media ratchets up the pressure based omn a tape showing what the guy pled guilty too. (we know he hit her but we didnt know he swung so hard when he did it!)