News on Tuesday that the NFL suspended Vikings running back Adrian Peterson for the rest of the season brought out all sorts of opinions. We've attempted to scoop up some of the most relevant thoughts and numbers we found on the subject from a bunch of different sources:

• One of the smartest early takes on the Peterson situation Tuesday came from Barry Petchesky at Deadspin.com. His premise was that you could come down on either side of the Peterson situation morally, but at the end of the day you must conclude that the NFL exploited Peterson's case in an attempt to restore its own image. "Peterson — a black-and-white villain — was a blessing," Petchesky wrote. "Maybe a bad man, maybe a man who did bad things, he's a relatively uncomplicated figure, and the NFL was thrilled to have someone to position itself against."

Don Banks at SI.com, meanwhile, says nobody looks good. "The league office and Commissioner Roger Goodell clearly wanted to look and act tough in light of the too-soft Ray Rice punishment, but that's the problem with going too lightly in the first instance — it often prompts a subsequent overreaction," he wrote.

• A Startribune.com poll asked, "Do you agree with the NFL's decision announced Tuesday to suspend Adrian Peterson?" With nearly 7,000 votes by late Tuesday afternoon, 57 percent of respondents said no, while 43 percent said yes. ESPN's SportsNation ran a similar poll with similar results: 56 percent no, and 44 percent yes.

ESPN's poll was broken down by state, too. Perhaps not surprisingly, some of Peterson's biggest support came from Minnesota (62 percent no), his home state of Texas (65 percent) and the state in which he played college football, Oklahoma (73 percent). Wisconsin, though, was 57 percent in favor.

• A few of the best thoughts we saw in the Startribune.com comments section:

benjamin_1114: "What a joke. The NFL bases its suspensions on how much publicity a case gets and how upset the public is."

steelcurtain: "While I am OK with the AP suspension, the way they arrived at it and the position the NFL is taking is troubling."

phillyviking: "I really have a lot of mixed feelings. Always been a huge fan but very hard to get past what he has done. My son is 6, running around in his AP jersey makes me just grab him and hug him and I think it's probably best if AP is gone. I wish him well, but no, can't have him on my team."

Michael Rand