Adrian Peterson is grateful for all the support. How about being devastated by the loss, angry at the murderer, and ashamed that you didn't protect your own 2 year old boy? Adrian Peterson will play football on Sunday. How about taking the time to respect your little boy's life, to personally make funeral arrangements, and to make sure your child gets justice?
I couldn't care less about his privacy. That request is just a shield to deflect any inquiry into his heartless behavior before and after this child's death. God will bless and honor this child as his own father has not done.
Seriously, wtf is wrong with you? Fuck you for judging how someone grieves.Â
Alyssa, you are so fucking gross, I could vomit. WTF IS THE WRONG WITH YOU? You know nothing about the man behind the face of the NFL MVP. NOTHING.
From reports, they're taking him off the ventilator tonight and donating his organs.
The only good thing out of this entire disgusting story is that they chose to donate the little boy's organs. At least another child can be helped out of this terrible tragedy.
Patterson was given a one-year jail term in each Lincoln County case, with all the time suspended on the condition he attend domestic violence counseling.
Honestly, most football players would cut off their left hand if it meant making it to the game on Sunday. They only play 16 games a year (not counting pre-season and playoffs, if they're lucky) and they get paid millions of dollars for this.
Torrey Smith, who plays for the Ravens, lost his younger brother in a motorcycle accident on a Saturday night last year. He got the call around 1am Sunday, drove from MD to VA to see his family, then drove back in time for the game Sunday afternoon/evening. His coach told him he was excused (which, honestly, is hard to do, given all of their prep), but he just said he needed to do it, and needed to play the game for his brother. Not to mention, the other players pretty much become your best friends, so if you're going to want support from anyone, it's them.
Also what KateAggie said - he might not be allowed in the room if the child is in ICU and he's not listed as his legal parent.
That's not to say he might still not be a douche. He wouldn't be the first asshole to play for the NFL.
And if he did have strong feelings for his son? He still might have to get out of that hospital or risk killing the mother for leaving this monster alone with their kid.
I mean, it's a really awkward situation. You have to imagine that his relationship isn't the best with the mom, or they wouldn't be exes. Maybe there's already bad blood between them. It would be pretty hard to hang around a hospital in her hometown, with her family around and try to comfort her when HER boyfriend all but killed the boy. It doesn't sound like the doctors are giving his family much hope.
If anyone wants to imagine what AP is feeling, stop and think about it: you have a son you adore and dote on. You LOVE your child. And then you find out you might have another child out there. you are looking forward to meeting and caring for him, but before you get to meet him, some sick fuck brutally murders him and it is all over the media.
Now that shit deserves some compassion. And he should be allowed to grieve that kind of mindfuck situation however he needs to.
If anyone wants to imagine what AP is feeling, stop and think about it: you have a son you adore and dote on. You LOVE your child. And then you find out you might have another child out there. you are looking forward to meeting and caring for him, but before you get to meet him, some sick fuck brutally murders him and it is all over the media.
Now that shit deserves some compassion. And he should be allowed to grieve that kind of mindfuck situation however he needs to.
I know very little about Adrian Peterson, but I was giving him the benefit of the doubt yesterday because I did know he had a child that he seemed to be involved with and supportive of - it didn't really make sense that he would willfully ignore another child who was similar in age.
I can't imagine how he feels and it's particularly tragic that he had just found out about his son and had plans to meet him and ended up meeting him this way. He's pretty clearly a good guy. What a terrible situation.
Adrian Peterson is grateful for all the support. How about being devastated by the loss, angry at the murderer, and ashamed that you didn't protect your own 2 year old boy? Adrian Peterson will play football on Sunday. How about taking the time to respect your little boy's life, to personally make funeral arrangements, and to make sure your child gets justice?
I couldn't care less about his privacy. That request is just a shield to deflect any inquiry into his heartless behavior before and after this child's death. God will bless and honor this child as his own father has not done.
Wait had he even ever met this child before??
Even if he had, and if he had shared custody of the kid, how was he supposed to have kept the POS who beat the kid to death away? And the scary thing about psychopathic assholes is that they can appear totally normal... until they kill your two year old. A man beat a tiny baby to death; at this point, I don't see how anyone is at fault except for him.
I'm seeing that top left photo on fb now with a white light in the middle and angel wings on the kid saying "Starting Tonight Everybody repost this picture if you don't know this is Adrian Peterson and his son. His son was beaten to death at 2."
OMG. This just popped up in my FB feed. This is Adrian Jr. This is NOT the kid who died. Apparently AP has already asked people to stop tweeting pics of Adrian Jr. because everybody is confused.
I've been going back and forth with an IL over that post. Even if you thought it really was the poor dead child, why would anyone share something with such terrible English?
I've been going back and forth with an IL over that post. Even if you thought it really was the poor dead child, why would anyone share something with such terrible English?
No but my feed is surprisingly low on FB fuckery most of the time. I know that this crap is common though and I should keep my expectations low for people in general.
In the end the person actually thanked me for bringing it to his attention and took the photo down.
This shit is common on facebook. This 3rd party sympathy Olympic sized schmaltz fest is the bread and butter of FB these days. It's become the email forward of the 90s. Surely no one is surprised.
Listen people. AP watched his big brother get run over by a drunk driver and killed in front of him at 7. His brother was carjacked and murdered a few years ago. His dad is in jail. He has used football as his coping mechanism to get through life. Also, there are some reports that he wasn't even sure the kid was his until very recently and he has had no contact with the mom or the kid until very recently. So I'm not going to jump on the "FUCK YOU ADRIAN" train right now.
I'm really pissed at the reporting that keeps using AP over and over again in the story when the real story is the lowlife who killed the child (regardless of who fathered the child) and yet another mother who put her child in danger from her boyfriend.
Post by statlerwaldorf on Oct 13, 2013 13:04:27 GMT -5
If that child wasn't related to AP, it would never had made national news. Has anyone outside of central Ohio heard of Jocelyn Runyons? She was killed by her mother's boyfriend on October 2nd.