AD in the klink again

[Montana Tom]

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.

[pattersaur]

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.

[purplefaithful]

Well hell...

This has gone from roll my eyes to sad and pray for souls...

Guy needs a lot of help

[comet52]

He's never been smart about his behavior.  Hope he finds treatment that helps.

[Zanary]

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.

[JimmyinSD]

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.

[purplefaithful]

Man, just think of all the $$$ down the turlet...

[Vikergirl]

He just can't get out of his own way

[BigAl99]

If he could have gotten NIL money in college you think he would have made it to the NFL?

[JimmyinSD]

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.