Two
wrongs don’t make a right, but Vikings’ running back Adrian Peterson and NFL
Commissioner Roger Goodell sure do make it fun.
Peterson got away with the proverbial slap on the wrist in court for
using a switch on his four-year old son, and he argued that Goodell’s
indefinite suspension that came after the court ruling was in essence ex post
facto. A federal judge agreed.
The
NFL intends to appeal, and Peterson wants to get back to work. Goodell’s case looks weak—he tried to apply a
new conduct policy to Peterson, on top of which the arbitrator who did his
bidding was a former league employee.
How do you say “bias”?
In
a perfect world, the NFL loses its appeal, and nobody picks up Peterson, who so
far has shown far less remorse for his transgressions than Ray Rice has for
his. If only we lived in such a
place.
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