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The Timeline Doesn’t Lie: Adrian Peterson’s Holdout Was Doomed from the Start

June 2, 2015   ·     ·   Jump to comments

An NFL player without any sort of leverage on his side went into a holdout situation and lost. Months of increasingly ridiculous speculation and public demands predictably ended in said player returning to the team empty-handed. 
This is a tale many times told. This is the story of Adrian Peterson's lost battle against the Minnesota Vikings. 
Peterson finally returned to the Vikings Tuesday, providing an anticlimactic conclusion to a self-inflicted saga months in the making. ESPN's Josina Anderson first reported Tuesday morning that Peterson was back in Minnesota with intentions to attend the club's organized team activities. It will be Peterson's first official reunion with the Vikings since he missed 15 games last season due to the wide-ranging fallout from his child abuse charges in Texas. 
The timeline of the showdown helps illustrate both the lunacy of Peterson's camp and the successful hardball play from the leverage-laden Vikings. Minnesot...

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