Adrian Peterson’s Reinstatement Forces Vikings to Tackle Hard Truth of Moving on

April 17, 2015   ·   Michael Schottey   ·   Jump to comments

It's not just business. 
Running back Adrian Peterson and the Minnesota Vikings have fallen into one of the biggest traps of the NFL landscape: They've made things personal. While the vast majority of player movement is simply a transactional or accounting matter, Peterson and the Vikings let his current status with the team be entirely saturated with emotion and feelings. 
From the moment of Peterson's arrest for reckless or negligent injury to a child, the Vikings have been hamstrung by and confused about what they should do with their franchise cornerstone. He's still a veritable superstar, but now he has a lot of proverbial baggage to carry around. 
He also just had his 30th birthday. 
So the Vikings stood by him, until they didn't. Then they suspended him, until they legally couldn't, and he has since sat in limbo in NFL terms after pleading guilty to a lesser charge of reckless assault of a child. 
The NFL has now reinstated ...

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