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- Ditka has lots of opinions.
The other day I came across an old Mike Royko column that reminded me the Republican Party started hating Hillary Clinton even before her husband was elected president.
On Tuesday NFL commissioner Roger Goodell suspended the Minnesota Vikings’ Adrian Peterson for the rest of the season, and perhaps longer, for abusing his four-year-old son and not wishing he hadn’t. The Tribune‘s David Haugh reported, “Peterson acknowledged punishing the boy with a stick badly enough to leave marks on his legs, ankles and genitals.” The boy had “leaves stuck in his mouth while his dad struck him with a branch,” and the only thing Peterson denies is having any idea “others would consider this abusive.”
But Ditka had more to say and said it. He had perspective to contribute: