Adam Mancini
Sports Editor
The
Adrian Peterson saga is finally coming to a close. The star running back of the
Minnesota Vikings, and the apple of the NFL’s eye, was arrested in September on
felony charges of assault on a child. He would eventually plead no contest to a
misdemeanor reckless assault charge. Commissioner Roger Goodell has now
suspended the 2012 NFL MVP without pay for the remainder of the 2014 season,
and has left the door open for a possible suspension in 2015 as well. Peterson
appealed the ruling, but the arbitrator ruled in favor of the NFL.
Early
in the season, Peterson was being investigated for allegedly abusing his four
year old son with a wooden switch. This allegation came right on the heels of
the Ray Rice domestic violence case, a situation that was handled poorly by
Goodell and the NFL. So when rumblings of another case of domestic violence
involving a star player began, fans demanded an appropriate, and harsh,
response from the league. They got what they wanted, as Goodell has essentially
made an example out of Peterson by handing down an unforgiving punishment that
can only get harsher. “You have shown no meaningful remorse for your conduct,”
Goodell said in his letter to Peterson outlining his sentence.
