Some professional football players can't leave their badasses at work.
Some kill and maim dogs; some concuss women; some assault children.
Take the case of 29-year-old Adrian Lewis Peterson, star 6-1, 217-pound running back for the Minnesota Vikings.
He stands indicted in Montgomery, Texas for using a tree branch in May to throttle his four-year-old son 10-15 times--causing numerous cuts and bruises on the toddler's bare legs, butt, hands and scrotum.
The boy's mother later took him to a doctor in Minnesota, who reported the abuse to authorities. The official charge is reckless or negligent injury to a child.
After being booked and released on $15,000 bond--and later accepting self-suspension with pay by the National Football League until the case is resolved in court--Peterson said he "whooped" the tot for pushing another son while playing with a video game.
Peterson maintains that "whooping" of children with tree switches is standard operating procedure among African-Americans in the South.
So is dog-fighting. Who or what is next on the list? (21 SEPTEMBER 2014)
