Minnesota Vikings

The Green Bay Packers are the most successful franchise in NFL history. They are an American professional football team that plays in the NFL. They play in the NFC Conference and the NFC North division with teams like the Detroit Lions and Minnesota Vikings. They have won 13 championships in their history and 4 of those are Super Bowls. Green Bay is a small town with a population of a little over 100,000 in the Northeastern part of Wisconsin, sitting right next to Lake Michigan. According to…

Why don't the people who are worked up over the fact that Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson was arrested 3 years ago on a felony charge of “child abuse” just examine what happened. According to a police report, Peterson disciplined his son after the boy pushed another one of Peterson's sons off of a motorbike video game. The Vikings running back used a switch (a thin branch or rod used for whipping) to discipline his child. I mean yes, there…

Child abuse is a major problem in todays society, but now there are more and more instances in which parents, who believe in disciplining their children, are being accused of abuse. People are now struggling with how to categorize these incidents as either parental discipline or child abuse. Although many believe that parental discipline is no different than child abuse, there is a fine line that is drawn between the two. While child abuse is committed out of hatred and violence, parents…

In 1974, Bradshaw helped the team to win the first Super Bowl champions by beating Minnesota Vikings. He did the same in the following year by defeating Dallas Cowboys. In 1976, he came back from wrist injury and helped his side to beat Baltimore colts and then Dallas Cowboys in the following year. During a game with New york jets, he suffered…

a sports fanatic. Recently, within the last few months or so, two future Hall of Famers from different sports leagues were charged of child abuse. These two famous athletes are all-star center from the Houston Rockets, Dwight Howard and the Minnesota Vikings all-pro running back, Adrian Peterson. Adrian Peterson was indicted in Texas by the grand jury for neglecting his…

Earlier this month, a star running back for the Minnesota Vikings was indicted for whipping his young son bloody with a switch. Leaked photographs allegedly showed Adrian Peterson’s 4-year-old son with cuts and bruises on his legs, back, buttocks and scrotum. As details about the incident emerged, Peterson took to Twitter to say that he’s not a perfect parent but what he did was not abuse. It was discipline. “My goal is always to teach my son right from wrong and that’s what I tried to do that…

It's like a smoke in the mirror or a string that pulls us closer, and closer every time our minds tries to escape the magnitude of advertisements placed upon us. Therefore, I sat in the dark corners of my room and asked myself, are our minds ever going to find peace and tranquility to think on its own as long as these ads are embedded within us? From the very instant we open our eyes in the morning, these advertisement’s start to find their ways in our brains, “at the rate of about three…

Winston on the other hand completed less than half of his passes, including one interception against the Minnesota Vikings. They improved. They bounced back. Not everyone can throw a touchdown on their first NFL pass. Mariota through two games is now throwing at 75 percent with 153 yards. Not the best stats, but he also isn’t playing the whole games. Winston right…

The Rooney rule is a national football league policy that requires league teams to interview minority candidates for head coaching and senior football operation jobs. It is sometimes cited as an example of affirmative action, though there is no quota or preference given to minorities in the hiring of candidates (Axson). The Rooney rule was created in 2003. The rule is a form of affirmative action stating that National Football Teams or franchises have to interview a minority for executive of…

Joel G. Chefitz, partner at McDermott Will & Emery (Phillips, G., 2015). But with that said, many current and former student athletes feel as if that’s not enough. In an interview with the St. Paul Pioneer Press (Minnesota) several professional football players of the Minnesota Vikings spoke on their stance of this subject. Wide receiver Joe Webb (Alabama-Birmingham): “should college players be paid? Yeah, I think so. They’re doing great things for the university. I mean, the university is…