Sports Gone Insane, Day Eight, Part Three: The Situation in Minnesota Has Just Thermonuked

Oh...  shit!

We are just over five hours past the second (third?) accusation of child abuse against Adrian Peterson, and to say the shit is hitting the fan as we speak is KIND...

First, Radisson Hotels, a long-time sponsor of the Vikings, has suspended it's relationship with the team (presumably until Peterson is gone).

Second, a large-scale message board for fans of the Vikings shut down permanently tonight, with little to no notice.

Bringing up the actual URL now only gets the message:  "What?"

It's when you bring up the cached version of the page that you get a real nice explanation of what just happened at the end of vikingsmessageboard.com -- which now the server no longer exists, at least on Windows 8.1 ...

""Vikings Message Board has been shut down permanently. It will not return. There are two primary reasons.
"1. The Vikings cowardly decision to reinstate a child abuser and think that an apology will make this blow over. We will not stand for this arrogance and we will no longer be the home of any support of the Vikings. We stand for those who cannot defend themselves.
"2. We will not give a voice to thugs who think child abuse is "cultural" or worse, openly advocate child abuse as a reasonable method of punishment. This ends here. Yes, a few board members have ruined it for everyone. Congratulations, a--holes.""

The biggest problem with this is the second statement plays to the dangerous statements made by Charles Barkley on Sunday.

We have to examine -- and I believe personally any examination forces the end of support of tackle football on all levels! -- that abuse and tackle football are hand in glove.  The sport cannot exist without the construct.

And we are now seeing "thugs who... openly advocate child abuse as a reasonable method of punishment". 

THIS IS GOING TO BE YOUR NFL FAN GOING FORWARD, FOOTBALL NATION AMERICA!

And if you think this is going away, you've got another think coming.

I wonder, after their discussion of "Redskins":  Is it now illegal, under Board of Regents policy, for the Minnesota Vikings to play at TCF Stadium (the home of the Gophers) at all?