"Players are treated like modern day slaves." ..........Adrian Peterson (base salary $10.72 million per year.)
Whenever I see comments like this, it reminds me of similar remarks that were made long ago by the Red Sox Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd, who said that he would rather "take a job for the minimum wage" rather than accept Boston's multi-million dollar offer. When informed of this statement, his brother told reporters, "I think Dennis has forgotten what the minimum wage is in Mississippi."
Just a few light remarks... Slavery in the United States ended on January 1, 1963. On that date President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclimation. 2 years later he'd take a bullet in the brain by a Southern sympathiser. This was followed by the 13th amendment to the Constitution which was adopted in late 1865. This followed the Civil War in which hundreds of thousands of men died at places like Chancellorsville, Shilo and Gettysburg. These men, overwhelmingly white, who never owned slaves gave their lives so that ungrateful, self-centered, ignorant millionaire assholes like Peterson can shoot off their mouths. I want to retch.
JO'Co is the history teacher. Gip has always exaggerated his numbers, especially when talking to women. :wink: But Gip... if you exaggerate, do more than making an 8 into a 9. 8)
Actually, Gip's typo does not make his post innacurate. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 pretty much made clear that our country was committed to equality, at least in law if not in existing attitudes. It was like an exclamation point on the then-100 yr. old Emancipation Proclamation. Relevant to this topic, I got an eye-opening history lesson last week. I attended an Indiana HS basketball tournament game in Shelbyville, about 20 miles SE of Indy. I knew that in 1947 Shelbyville won the state championship with a black player named Bill Garrett, who was named Mr. Basketball and went on to become an All-American at IU. For many years, he coached Crispus Attucks HS in Indy, where Oscar Robertson played. They won the state championship once or twice in the late 50s when Oscar was there. He (Garrett) had a cameo role in "Hoosiers" as the coach of the opposition team in the state final game. What I did not know is that there were three African American players on that Shelbyville team. In 1947! In Indiana! Where Greenwood, only 10-15 miles west of Shelbyville, was considered the capital of the KKK nation north of the Mason-Dixon line.
:shock: Great stuff Sid! Harry Truman said, "The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know. I didn't know ANY of that! Thanks!