Vikings fans nestled Adrian Peterson to their bosom Sunday in his first game at TCF Bank Stadium even though the star running back struggled to secure the football in his.
Peterson was a serial fumbler long before he became an indicted pariah but seemed to have solved that problem. He fumbled three times against Detroit, recovering one himself while having another at the goal line negated by a defensive penalty.
Benign sloppiness that was easily forgiven during a redemptive afternoon for Peterson, who triumphantly ran for 134 yards and rolled the forever-hapless Lions for almost 200 yards from scrimmage in a 26-16 victory.