Senator Amy Klobuchar (D., Minnesota) said Sunday that her home team did a better job of handling the Adrian Peterson case than the Baltimore Ravens did in responding to the domestic-violence case against running back Ray Rice. But she repeated her suggestion that National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell may have to resign.

“There could be many factual situations in which he should step down,” Klobuchar told host Candy Crowley on CNN’s State of the Union.

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The Gopher State Democrat applauded the Minnesota Vikings for taking quick action against running back Adrian Peterson, however, after Crowley apologetically raised the topic at the end of her appearance. Peterson was charged in Texas last week with horrific abuse of his four-year-old son, and Klobuchar applauded the team for its prompt action.

“This is a four-year-old child,” she said. “I’m very glad. . . . What the Vikings have done is they immediately deactivated him. He’s not playing in the game today with the Patriots. And I’m sure they’re looking at the evidence, gathering it, hearing what he has to say, but mostly looking at the pictures that are out there and everything. And they will make a decision and the prosecutor will pursue the case. Again, this is a four-year-old boy.”

Klobuchar made no mention of either Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti or Vikings owner Zygi Wilf. The Vikings lead the NFL in alleged criminality, according to new statistics from the Washington Post, which lists 44 arrests of Minnesota players since 2000, well ahead of the Ravens and such notorious clubs as the Oakland Raiders.