The Child Whooping Paradox - Adrian Peterson - Part 2

I have a signed field jersey from his rookie year in MN that I thought would be worth money someday only to have it worth nothing.

Would love to see the studies James was referencing that spanking your child after something that could have hurt them worse is effective lol yes let’s scare my child more

James never got hit with a belt if he thinks belts wrap. 😂

It’s weird they’re spending so much time bashing his beliefs.

When Adrian Peterson says that whoopings are what made him today… that’s the point. He was arrested several times as an adult, confrontational with bar employees, and then ended up hitting his kids.

Not the way I clapped while driving when James said "be a man and get in there" when talking about period sex 🤣

Your parents should protect you, be your advocate and love you unconditionally, while teaching and guiding you. Your children should trust you. You deserved this, Jimmie and the pain in your voice every time child abuse is mentioned, crushes me. I’m sorry for all your pain. Weak minded/lazy parents teach by fear. They teach their kids that when things are tough or confusing-don’t try to understand the situation, simply threaten and harm the other person, dog, baby….

I got beat bare assed with a switch as a kid. Just the norm in those times. I'd like to hope in 2026 that's no longer the case.

Banc of California Stadium is where LAFC of the MLS plays. It’s next to the Coliseum built where the LA Sports Arena was.

When I was in elementary school in Texas back in the 80s I got my ass whooped because my desk was messy.

My whipping switch in the 80’s was from a weeping willow tree. The key is to stay in as close as you can and not run.. That way you don’t get the tail end of the whip or the complete wrap around.

I was beat with weapons and punched with fists when I was a child, I turned out JUST fine...

I usually don't listen to Crime in Sports but this was interesting. I am so disgusted that he did this to a 4yr old. Its pathetic. However, I will say, as part of the black culture (Born in Zimbabwe), we do get whooped by our parents for a reason. Just not this young tender age. Not trying to make this a race thing but we get whooped when we are bad so we give our parents respect and dont bring nonsense back home. If you dont get disciplined in the home as a black kid, our parents are afraid of how we will act out side of our homes because it could be a matter of life and death 🤷🏾‍♀️. Whoopings should not be so bad as to leave marks. They should be without anger and done out of love. You have to know your kids. Some of them will get what they did wrong, if you just talk to them. But like my momma said, "A hard head, makes for a soft butt".

The reason they went looking for the grand jury leak is that grand juries are secret and sealed. Any leak is bad because (1) sometimes vulnerable people are called to testify against horrific people and there are fewer ways to get out of it (2) there is no defense, meaning evidence that might be thrown out in trial is more likely to be included, so they don't want to taint future jurors. It's not about protecting him as much as it's about "we cannot have leaks from grand juries period"

Palestine, Texas, that is some backwards shit

As someone who was occasionally whipped with a brown lamp cord by my immigrant great grandmother - feels bad man.

What an incredible piece of shit he is. No accountability, pisses me off. 🤬

I hate to be that guy but Pvt. Gomer Pyle in Full Metal Jacket was played by Vincent D'Onofrio not Matthew Modine. Sorry 😞

I'm surprised they didn't give the NFLPA more of the "silver haired middle-aged white man" treatment in their defense of Peterson.

My mom would beat us as kids with a thick leather belt with metal eyelets. We would have welts and blood even though it was over pants. Let me tell you from experience... hitting your kids doesn't work. I still did stupid shit cause thats what kids do.

I forgot about his kid dying in the last episode. After that happening & he still beats his kids? Scumbag

My bro and I got hit with a cb radio aerial, it fucking killed. Never hit my kids, after what I went through

I can't believe you let "pounded without a chance to respond" go without comment. that's up there with the stuff you say on small town murder about "losing his head" and stuff like that

I think theres a huge difference between giving a child repercussions for their actions and beating a child. Abuse should never be tolerated on a child.

This is weird for me. I got a mesquite tree switch on me once. I was 14 tho. Had gotten suspended two weeks in a row then got into a fight. My dad whipped me so hard and so much I couldn’t sit down. About half of the bruises were split open and bleeding. Idk it’s so weird to hear how wrong that is now. Just thought I deserved it. Not surprised I was with nothing but abusive men for years. Also I did not perpetuate that cycle with my own children.

My dad was 76 years old when he fell off the roof. Fell 10ft. Broke his sternum, hip, arm, collarbone. He has always ate fish,chicken, veggies, beans, brown rice. Walks 5+ miles a day and hikes all summer and on the weekends. Somehow he recovered and was hiking in Montana 5months later. Just from being in fantastic shape. Not gym buff guy with supplements and all that. Just good food and walking. He’s 78 and still doing great, walks and hikes daily.

I went to a very small fundamentalist Baptist junior high school (I wasn’t raised Baptist- lapsed Catholic here lol). Parents could sign a waiver to allow their kids to be paddled by the principal (named Mr. Paine- not making this up) as punishment. This was in the late Eighties. And no, my mom didn’t sign the waiver. In fact, she went to the school to tell them to tone the Jesus stuff down with me lol.

Not saying to beat a kid or hit them especially with an instrument of some sort, to where it leaves serious marks or injuries, but soft asses make for hard heads. This is why we have a bunch of bad ass kids trying to fight teachers and disrespecting adults, and people who think they can say whatever they want on social media without consequences. They had paddling at my schools growing up and it was more fear of the embarrassment and other kids making fun of you for getting a paddling at school than it was the actual fear of the smack.

I always thought I liked AP. Turns out he's a dipshit and I dont lol

This episode sent a chill down my spine, I grew up with a physically abusive parent and ended up very meek with crippling anxiety, I really felt for Jimmie as I'm the same way with confrontation. And the excuse that your parent had it done to them always makes me angry as it did at 8 years old all it does is embrace a cycle of violence.

This is a tough one. As an older father (50) from the south who grew up with an Italian father and uncles, a smack was kind of normalized. As a father, I occasionally smacked my kids on the butt in some circumstances when they were too young for reasoning and were endangering themselves or others..I kind of see how AP reacted..on one hand, he screwed up badly and really was wrong..but it's hard to put yourself in his shoes and it's natural for any man to push back against outsiders telling him how to raise his kids. I'm not saying he's right, but I'm saying I understand (cue Chris rock clip)

A survey of incarcerated in American prisons for violent crimes showed that 90% report that corporal punishment was the form of disciple used in their homes. For the very few people like this guy that made it there are millions living with the harm done to them by those that should have protected them. Domestic violence, against spouses & children is generational. This guy is totally unaware that his internal anger, probably from being beaten by his crack dealer father, is what makes him beat his child. Pretty simple.

This sets up an internal mental message that pain & love go together. So if your mother, father, husband beats your ass, they must love you. We should have evolved beyond that by now.

What about the invisible emotional and psychological scars brought about by corporal punishment? We laugh and joke about how our parents hit us and used the belt on us, but it’s not the way to teach a child self control by losing control of yourself.

I love your take on religion. It's a bunch of naive hooey.

Damn jimmy, im the same way. Minor confrontations that i dont have the option to walk away from spike my adrenaline immediately and i have to stop my self from being scary defensive.

I got paddled in school for chewing gum. Yes I’m from the south 😜

One of my girlfriends growing up called her dad an asshole so he spanked her and she said "well now you're an abusive asshole" 😂

Lol, I hate seeing women get assaulted. The UFC women's fights are crazy, it was a lot of crotch kicking anytime one of them fell. I'm not big on brain damage sports, I used to like watching football but I haven't been keeping up w it for several yrs now. I'm def not surprised you can beat your kid but God fucking forbid you get raped or any other reason a woman wants an abortion. We've got too many shit parents, we need more abortions

I used to get the shit kicked out of me by my stepdad. My mom wasn’t satisfied with a wooden spoon so she switched to a metal slotted spoon. My kids would get a pop on the butt here and there. Like James was saying, just enough to get their attention. 1) Punishment had to fit the crime. 2) Never with anything but my hand. 3) Never when you’re frustrated or angry

This obviously affected you deeply Jimmy. Please take care of yourself.

I think Musk and Bezos have said that if it wasn’t for the fact that they were physically assaulted by their parents they wouldn’t be billionaires. Thank goodness for those welts from the belts. They might merely be middle class.

I just realized....they didn't do a 2025 Scummies, did they?

We saw Kareem Hunt have a whole Diddy moment in a hotel and he's still in the league. The on camera thing still has its exceptions

As a son of immigrants, i received the belt and a lot of yelling in Spanish. I raise my voice a lot to my kids but, man, it breaks me up inside and I have to apologize and hug them.

Why are you guys shitting on religion so much in this episode? Very excessive. Your choice to have religion or not is yours but the faith of others that isn’t being imposed on you isn’t doing anything to your life. I will give you this one that nobody knows. He didn’t know about the kid that was killed. The media found out about before he did. The moral character that is public facing had to be really fluffed by the media to hide all of the other kids he had around the country

Smacking or hitting a child in Scotland is illegal - as it is in another 61 countries in the world.

This episode is making me sad.

Don't know what this says about me. My grandfather used to have us pick switches off of a crab apple tree. Multiple times a summer my sister and I got the switch.

Some of these comments are horrifying.

Where in the episode did they mention a drowning?

My paternal grandmother did the switch on all 12 of her kids.

Perhaps the lack of geezus in my life is why it took 5 months for my acl repair surgery and 2 years to recover? 🤣🤣🤣

Our spirea bush disappeared one summer because we kids learned after one switching, we could bring Mom a choice of length or thickness. She stopped after she lost her lovely flowering plant. She had her priorities!

Am I confused? I know they mentioned the abuse and death of his 2 year old, but I don’t recall the mention of a drowning death in part 1.

Pics of the kids legs and stomach are online. It’s at least a dozen lacerations that I can see.