Adrian Peterson and the New "Real Man".

  This has been quite a week for the NFL. We've seen the video of Ray Rice knocking his bride to be out in an Atlantic city elevator after spitting on her a couple of times. I've heard the 911 call by a neighbor of Greg Hardy describing how he was abusing a woman inside his home. I had to go on to read the victims report which basically said to me that this guy is a monster. The thing is though...he's playing this week, and if the video of Rice hadn't been released he would be playing the week after. This leads in to my next point, Roger Goodell the commissioner of football is letting these guys off the hook with light suspensions and in Hardy's case, nothing.
  I'm not stupid, I understand that there is a legal process and huge financial liabilities for a team that suspends a player without due process. But i'm also not an idiot and I know damn well that the moral issue can brush aside all processes and procedures. I've been an NFL fan for a long time and i've seen a lot of crap go down. The world is far from perfect and in today's hyper-instant-info age a damning photo or text of anyone in the limelight can spark a wild fire and witch hunt real quick.
  But then came the news about Adrian Peterson "whupping" his FOUR year old son with a tree branch. This one hurts. If you know me you know i'm the ultimate Vikes fan, and I rock the #28 jersey with purple and gold pride. I also have three sons, whom I love to the depths. I'm not a perfect father, and being a stay at home dad while trying to grow my music career, has put me to the test like no man i've ever met before. It's tough, it's beyond tough, it takes everything out of you most days, just to try and stay sane, let alone be a good parent. I know that life is a case by case thing and i'm not comparing myself to Peterson. I especially detest people who would tell me how to raise my children. But this goes beyond how hard AP grew up in east Texas and I can't let it fly. A four year old child still doesn't "get it", but cutting his nut sack open with tree branch isn't gonna help him get it any quicker. I'm a forgiving person who tries to look at the whole picture of a man before casting a decision on his character. I saw the "alleged" pics of his son's wounds and it makes me sick, it makes me cry. But this following video that i've posted isn't about judging a person, it's my way of taking a stand against child abuse. Further more this is my way of letting any man who would lay an abusive hand on a child know, that to be a good father is a tough thing to achieve sometimes,  but it's your job to try.