Peterson Still Doesn't Own Up to What He Did Was Wrong

There's been a lot of discussion in fan forums the last few days about Adrian Peterson coming back to the Vikings and pretending to be happy to be here again.

Like everything else he has not owned in the last year, he simply changed what he said when it came to the point where he could not do anything else anymore.

He changed his non-guilty stance to a no-contest plea late in the trial (about beating his son) once he realized he was going to be found guilty and go to jail.

Publicly, at he end of the trial he still said what he did wasn't wrong. When the NFL told him he could not play again until he admitted what he did was wrong and completed THEIR counseling program, he elected to sue the league instead. When most of that failed, he decided to admit that "spanking" his kid may have been a mistake and that he would do what the league required to get re-instated.

He then told everyone he would not play in Minnesota anymore because they had not supported him during HIS ordeal. When that failed he decided to come to camp and tell everyone how much he missed them (while still demanding secretly for the Vikings to renegotiate his contract.)

As a bonus, he now tells us what a good person he is because his therapist/counselor told him so AND because he admits he made a mistake...

...except he adds...that everyone else just made TOO BIG A DEAL about the situation.

There are now people saying that he has now owned his mistake and we should move on.

At best Adrian is RENTING his mistake. He is still blaming others for the situation in which he finds himself, by half-heartedly admitting only what he has to, rather than freely admitting that it is ALL ON HIM.

He assaulted his child so badly that he has permanent scars. Physical of course, and likely mental too. And all along he has called himself the victim. Even this week, the NFL was the bad guy for "one-sided" contracts, even though he voted to approve the CBA that specifies how this all works and was collectively bargained.

Letting a child abuser off because he said "mistake" four times in 16 months is just wrong. IF there was a shred of him being truly sorry, he would stop blaming others at every opportunity, and admit that his actions were just plain WRONG.

He has not done so.

He may still have a couple years left in him as a GOOD football player, but he is a BAD man.

I don't support the Vikings decision to keep him.That's the biggest mistake of all. How can anyone cheer for or support such a loser?