Liquidated

 

 

 

"Hero to goat in less than a week. And who says fame is fleeting?"

In the movie Ten Commandments, when Moses was outed for not being of royal blood, but Jewish instead, his half brother Pharaoh banished him to the wilderness. If that was not bad enough, he ordered all tables, all monuments to be stripped of the name Moses. In addition, no tongue shall mention his name again. Moses was not only banished, he was liquidated.

The Romans would practice something called Damnatio Memoraie, which simply means "damnation of memory". It was a judgment cast upon those who did things which brought discredit to the Empire. It was literally to erase someone from history. The Russians also practiced this to a degree after the 1917 Purge.

Adrian, Adrian, what have you done? Actually, what he did has been going on for a while now. It is just that he got caught. Adrian Peterson, hero of the Vikings, a shoe-in for the Hall of Fame, is nothing more than a rich and talented "Baby Daddy". This fact began to surface last year when one of his sons died at the hands of another man. Adrian was given some time off to grieve and attend the funeral. It was there that the shameful truth of this man started to surface.

Rumors started to swirl that Adrian did not even know he had this son. Huh? In fact, the rumors continued that Adrian was quite the stud. In fact, he had numerous children with numerous women. After the funeral and Adrian was then back to work. All of those rumors about many kids with many women seemed to die out during the season.

When one of Adrian's sons returned home from his visit to see "Daddy Peterson", he looked like he got into a fight. Black and blue with some bleeding welts. Seems that "Daddy Peterson" did not like something this boy had done and beat him with a switch (stick). That was in May. Here we are halfway though September, and photos were released from that May incident. "Daddy Peterson" all of a sudden, was in deep, deep "do-do" with the press and fans. He was a child beater.

Sponsors started to pull out. It would hurt the team and the league. The story got even worse when tales surfaced of a second child who was beat by "Daddy Peterson". The question was then asked, "How many kids does our star running back have?" He won't answer that question, but the number seems to be somewhere between 5 and 7 with three different women. "Daddy Peterson" has been outed as nothing more than a talented "Baby Daddy".

So now our "Baby Daddy" is gone for the season. Slowly, he is being liquidated from the team. His jerseys are being pulled from Target. Most in the know believe he will never take another snap as a Viking - maybe from anyone. He has gone from hero to pariah quicker than one can say "billion dollar stadium". No, Adrian (who?) is gone, and soon to be forgotten.

This is just a reminder that true heroes are not the people that play sports. People that play sports can be just a flawed as the rest of us. If you want to see a real hero, go thank a cop. Heroes are all around us, and very few play sports.