Adrian Peterson backed out of a meeting with the NFL after previously stating the Minnesota Vikings running back would attend
The path for Adrian Peterson to return to the football field for the Minnesota Vikings took an interesting twist when he failed to show up for a disciplinary meeting with the NFL, according to Adam Schefter who relayed the news in a Facebook post.
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Peterson gave no alternative date for this meeting that was to take place in advance of Monday’s conference call that will address his griveance hearing about being on the commissioner’s exempt list where he has been on since he was accused of and later plead no contest to injuring his four-year-old son while hitting him with a “switch.”
“We informed the union that we were unwilling to postpone the hearing beyond this week given that the player and union had both expressed a strong desire to resolve this matter as soon as possible and we had been given no meaningful reason why Adrian and the union could not appear and participate,” said a league official. “We offered other alternatives for this week, but those also were not acceptable. We also have yet to receive more than cursory materials in response to our requests for information on the case. Accordingly, we went forward with the review on Friday as scheduled.”
Why Peterson would not meet with the NFL and try and move past this ordeal is beyond me because it is only going to keep him off the football field longer and keep the focus on his legal trouble as opposed to his exceptional football talents.
“We had hoped that Adrian would take advantage of his opportunity to be heard and present whatever information he believes should be considered before a decision on discipline, counseling and services is made. Because he and the NFLPA elected not to do so, we will have to address this based on the information currently available to us.”
NFLPA spokesman George Atallah was highly-critical of the league for how they’ve handles Peterson’s case and thinks they’re making it up as they go along.
“The League office seems more focused on creating an arbitrary disciplinary process for Adrian instead of honoring a signed agreement to remove him from the Commissioner’s list,” Atallah emailed Schefter. “They are simply making stuff up as they go along. They should commit their efforts to meeting us at the table to collectively bargain a new personal conduct policy.”
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