Vikings’ Adrian Peterson Compares NFL Players’ Situation To “Modern-Day Slavery”

(By Glenn Davis, SportsGrid) - Most would agree NFL players generating more sympathy in the league’s labor battle than the owners, and it’s not hard to see why. Even if the players are rich, they’re less rich than the owners…not to mention they’re the ones putting their bodies on the line to play the games fans want to see.

But comments like the ones Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson made in a recent interview with Shutdown Corner’s Doug Farrar won’t help the players in the battle to win hearts and minds. In discussing the labor situation with Farrar, Peterson said the following:

It’s modern-day slavery, you know? People kind of laugh at that, but there are people working at regular jobs who get treated the same way, too. With all the money … the owners are trying to get a different percentage, and bring in more money. I understand that; these are business-minded people. Of course this is what they are going to want to do. I understand that; it’s how they got to where they are now. But as players, we have to stand our ground and say, ‘Hey — without us, there’s no football.