AD in the klink again
Former NFL running back Adrian Peterson is in police custody in Fort Bend County, Texas, according to official jail records.
Peterson, 40, was arrested the morning of Oct. 26 in Sugar Land, Texas on charges of DWI and unlawful carrying of a weapon, according to Fort Bend County records.
The Palestine, Texas native will meet with a judge on Oct. 27 after spending the night of Oct. 26 in jail, a Fort Bend Sheriff's Office spokesperson told the Houston Chronicle. Peterson will be eligible to post bail following his meeting with the judge, the spokesperson said.
The Oct. 26 incident is at least the second drunk driving incident for Peterson this year. The 15-year NFL veteran was arrested in Minnesota on a DWI charge in April, hours after he had made an appearance at a Minnesota Vikings 2025 NFL Draft party.
He seems to have fallen into just about every one of the ex-athlete trappings at this point. Really unfortunate because he is right there with Moss as the best players I've ever watched in purple. From what I recall he had a fairly rough upbringing, but hopefully he can surround himself with the right people and turn things around. He'd have an amazing story.
Well hell...
This has gone from roll my eyes to sad and pray for souls...
Guy needs a lot of help
Hurry-up Vikings, we ain't getting any younger!
No headlines about him have been fun to read in a very long time, dating back to his last days on the Vikings.
He was a stupendous athlete, incredibly focused on getting yards, getting wins, getting healed...but, seemingly deaf to any outside influence on anything else. He made incredible money, but burned through it. He was rivaling Mick Jagger in impregnating the world. He refused to accept that age and mileage were having brutal effects on him, and the encroaching realities seem to make him less and less stable to the point of casino fights and DWIs.
I hope he gets the help he needs, but I think it'd take an even bigger sports icon to sit his stubborn ass down, offer to help in exchange for AD getting real therapy, and basically treat him like conservatorship-era Britney Spears.
KOC, JJM, Flores...make a good plan, or you'll be following Kwesi....
i think this is a poster child case against "special treatment of athletes". listening to his interviews over the years it was pretty apparent that his education was not commensurate with his level of education. perhaps if we held athletics in a lesser place in our society, and its participants to the same or higher levels of academic achievement then we would see better results once they reach adulthood?
In conversations in the past about removing athletics from our public school systems the argument for keeping them is always, "if it wasn't for athletics we would lose kids" well with athletics we are losing plenty of kids, because the schools they attend are not holding those kids accountable for the sake of winning sports programs. something needs to change.
Sadly, I dont see a positive outcome for AD. at best he is a broke guy at card shows trying to sell his autograph to eek out an existence, all the while still thinking he is still something great.
Why isn't Chuck Foreman in the Hall of Fame?
Man, just think of all the $$$ down the turlet...
Hurry-up Vikings, we ain't getting any younger!
BigAl99 wrote:
If he could have gotten NIL money in college you think he would have made it to the NFL?
I suspect he got paid back in college, not like kids these days are, but I have to think that there were people taking care of AD for the sake of the program. once they go pro though, and especially once they are out of the game, that name is just to hard to keep clean, or not worth keeping clean for those with a vested interest.
Why isn't Chuck Foreman in the Hall of Fame?
pattersaur wrote:
He seems to have fallen into just about every one of the ex-athlete trappings at this point. Really unfortunate because he is right there with Moss as the best players I've ever watched in purple. From what I recall he had a fairly rough upbringing, but hopefully he can surround himself with the right people and turn things around. He'd have an amazing story.
Indeed. It was as much a joy to watch him run as it is painful to see how bad he is now. The camel at the birthday party kind of symbolized it all for me. Excess, he knows no other way.
BigAl99 wrote:
If he could have gotten NIL money in college you think he would have made it to the NFL?
Dude, he went to Oklahoma. The backup long snapper was likely getting paid.
As for the rough upbringing, so did Moss, who pre-NFL had more incidents than AD. Difference was Moss figured out how to use a condom and otherwise get his head on straight moneywise. And no camels.
RS_Express wrote:
Dude, he went to Oklahoma. The backup long snapper was likely getting paid.
no AD... we said we'd get you PAID.... you're going to have to take care of getting laid on your own.... and so it began.
Why isn't Chuck Foreman in the Hall of Fame?
RS_Express wrote:
Dude, he went to Oklahoma. The backup long snapper was likely getting paid.
As for the rough upbringing, so did Moss, who pre-NFL had more incidents than AD. Difference was Moss figured out how to use a condom and otherwise get his head on straight moneywise. And no camels.
Bingo.
Lived in a nice neighborhood and went fishing. Other than the meter maid trying to get paid, he was pretty much on his best behavior.
"Other than the meter maid trying to get paid, he was pretty much on his best behavior."
Was that the one that was "Harsh on Randie's buzz" lol...
Born in 1961 - Still waiting for just one.... ;)
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