Hey SA..

Wow on Adrian Peterson!!!

Hindsight is always 20/20 but he is going to make some teams sorry they passed on him in the draft.

Reminds me of a young Marcus Allen (I was going to say OJ Simpson, but I don't think he's cut from THAT cloth)


Looking forward to good things from that kid in the future!

Thanks Shock

He's the only reason I stay excited about watching the Viking games this year. Better to watch than Randy Moss because he gets soooo many more touches as a RB.

I've been watching football since the late fifties. YA Tittle, Big Daddy Lipmsomb, Lou Grousa. He'll it's so long ago I don't even know how to spell their names anymore.

I watched all the great running backs from Brown, to OJ, to Gale Sayers (who was my favorite until now, too bad he got hurt young) Dickerson, Payton, Sanders and on and on. I've tried to compare him to the great running backs of the past and I've come to the conclusion he has some qualities from several backs.

* The power of Brown (Brown's once ran for 6.4 yards a carry and Peterson is currently at 6.6)
* Runs angry like Payton and Campbell (needs to slow down on that later or he will have a short carrier)
* Has the open field speed of Bo Jackson (Although he only runs a 4.38 my guess is that he is so strong he still runs 4.38 in pads when everyone else is taking a .1 haircut)
* Is starting to remind me of Tomlinson the way he is now waiting for the holes to open and then motoring through.
* Also has that subtle body move that freezes DB's. I guess like Payton but not as pronounced as Sanders. (That's the shiftyest little sucker I've ever seen)
* Has a spin move like my old favorite Chuck Foreman and hurdles players like no one I've ever seen before.
* Probably has the best size, speed ratio I've ever seen. Once he's in the open field it's over and that amazing for a man his size.

I was in the stands in Chicago when he ran for 224 and watched every minute of the 296 effort. I feel like I'm watching history in the making every play.

Watch inside the nfl tonight and you will see what I mean

He's pretty impressive SA... I knew talent-wise that he had what it takes.... I just really didn't think that he would be able to stay healthy with his track record in college. I hope he can, he's great to watch.

I just read this and thought it went well with my description of Peterson:

Vikings at Packers: Imagine that you could distill the football experience, boil away the impurities, and filter out the imperfections, the modernizations, the glamour and bombast and hype. You'd be left with the essence of football: a tailback slashing through a defensive line on an autumn afternoon, juking one defender while steamrolling another, mixing jitterbug fakes with bone-jarring stiff-arms. You'd be left with Adrian Peterson.

Adrian Peterson has quickly become one of the NFL's best backs. (Doug Pensinger / Getty Images)

Peterson is an archetype. His running style evokes images that haunt our collective subconscious. One moment he's Earl Campbell. The next he's Billy Sims. Then he's Eric Dickerson. At times, you see a sepia-tinted flash of Jim Brown. Peterson isn't the Vikings only good player — there's a lot of talent in both trenches — but he's the only player who could be the centerpiece of a Super Bowl team. He's a cornerstone, and while the Vikings wish they had more than one, there are plenty of NFL teams with none.

Peterson proved to be an equalizer against the Bears and Chargers. Many teams can beat the Vikings, but none can look past them. The Packers, winners of the last matchup, know that the Vikings can be dangerous if allowed to linger. It took a tip-drill interception in the final minute to beat the Vikings in Week 4, a game in which Brad Childress over-caffeinated and called 39 passes to just 12 Peterson runs. Childress learned the error of his ways, and the pass-run ratio will likely be reversed on Sunday.

The Packers' goal will be to try to salt the game away early, limiting Peterson's ability to beat them. It may not work. The running back-by-democracy system isn't giving Brett Favre the support he needs, so he's reverted to do-it-all mode, donating a turnover for every touchdown he throws. The offensive inconsistency allows opponents to stay close, so Peterson will remain in the gameplan. The Packers will prevail, thanks to their defense and the Minnesota's Three Stooges quarterbacking corps, but the early six-point line is a little scary.

Imagine if Peterson played for the Packers. Now there's a team that could put a scare into the Patriots.