Adrian Peterson's Jersey Rant

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Nobody wants to hear a rich man whine, but this NFL star brings up a pretty good argument.Adrian Peterson hatched what seemed like a good plan on Twitter to change his Minnesota Vikings uniform number from 28 to 23. That was last week. Now the star running back has changed his mind, blaming the power brokers behind pro football merchandise sales for spoiling his idea.





Peterson told his 212,000-plus Twitter followers that he "received a call" from an unnamed source informing him he'd have to buy all the jerseys that have been made with his No. 28 on them if he wanted to change his number. The Vikings star tweeted the amount of money "blew my mind!!!!!"
How much would it cost?
A cool $1,000,000 -- according to Peterson.
That's when the franchise running back unloaded on what he feels is an injustice to star players. Pointing out to his cyber minions that he's among the leaders in NFL jersey sales, Peterson complained that he doesn't "even get paid a million dollars" from his individual Nike sponsorship deal.
http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/dish...-uniform-rules

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That's when the franchise running back unloaded on what he feels is an injustice to star players.

Pointing out to his cyber minions that he's among the leaders in NFL jersey sales,

Peterson complained that he doesn't "even get paid a million dollars" from his individual Nike sponsorship deal.

And I feel that it is an injustice to human kind when you can get paid a ton of money and complain about putting out a mil for something as stupid as changing your number. Hmm here is an idea, buy them and then donate them, hey look a tax write off jackass!


Hmm, did you ever think maybe, just maybe that is the reason why you have to pay out a cool mil to change your number.


Way to put your new sponsor on blast, dumbass!


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Sorry, but just keep the damn number and be happy about it, if you wanted that number, then you should have asked for it when you first came into the league. IF it was taken, I am sure you could of bought that number off of whoever had it at the time, for a pretty reasonable price. Well pretty reasonable compared to the mil he would have to pay now. Way to complain about not wanting to waste your money so friviously, just to change the number on your jersey. When a lot of Americans can't even survive with what they are making. These type of people drive me nuts!