This is straight from the Sporting News Blog <link>, a blurb can also be found on deadspin <link>:
Jared Allen’s hunting credentials are well established — having had his share of spear hunting elk from the tops of trees — and we all know Brett Favre can take down big game at 1,000 yards with a well placed stubble shot, meaning any Vikings player looking to have a place in this rusticated regime had better get out there and start bagging some critters.
Not to be outdone is Adrian Peterson, who, in these pictures scared up by Gobbler Country, has tried his hand at taking down water fowl. Or at least posing with the ducks that someone else shot. There’s no info on when exactly this hunting trip took place, but we would like to think he grabbed the first pick-up out of town to the hunting lodge after a certain grizzled land baron joined the team with much fanfare.
Is this an actual effort to gibe with teammates or a crafty strategy to get PETA off Michael Vick’s back? My money’s on neither, but those would make blog-happy storylines, so let us pray.
When are athletes going to learn, keep this crap to yourself, no photos! All Day gets what he deserves. I’m not PETA crazy, but how the heck do you let these photos get out. You know he is going to get crap for this, even though it’s completely within his right as an American to do this. Do I believe in hunting? For your own food, yes, for sport no. The truth is this in no worse than fishing, but All Day is going to get a little negative publicity for this one.
Lolz @ the duck’s eyes being censored out.
I don’t really see any of this becoming an issue. He did the hunting legally and will probably end up eating the game anyhow. Then again, I come from the UP of Michigan where pretty much our whole area is in the woods around deer season… so I am numb to the whole issue… and the PETA factor plays in (the fact that they are just beyond crazy).
I don’t disagree with you at all. I live in a very rural area of Durham, NC near woods and during the early morning hours of the weekend I always hear gunfire. Like I said, I don’t have a problem with it. The point I was trying to make is that the PETA folks are crazy when it comes to this. They are always looking for ways to get their name out there and when they can pin an athlete’s face to hunting with such graphic pictures, it’s going to be some bad publicity.
If they’re fired up over AP, PETA has to love Chipper Jones and his Buck Commander (www.buckcommander.com) buddies!
I hope he has his duck stamp, otherwise the US Fish and Wildlife Service will be after him.
However much bad publicity he gets from PETA he should get that much more good publicity from the NRA and other hunting organizations ie duck’s unlimited w/e. For me, it boosts my thoughts about AD which were pretty high already I think it is awesome to see. Hey it would be nice for hunting to get better publicity then it is already getting anyway this can’t hurt.
BTW that Jared Allen video is nasty awesome. And I should clear the air that I hunt for the sport and the meat, meaning I find hunting fun and do like to shoot animals, but I also need the meat for food. lol