Crime in Sports - Dead Player Battleship - Adrian Peterson - Part 1

Episode Date: March 3, 2026

This week, we celebrate episode 500!! We look at one of the greatest players to ever play his position, in NFL history. He has countless accolades, to attest to his football prowess. Only problem is, he also had quite the prowess for ending up in handcuffs. We start with his difficut, and sometimes tragic childhood, only to see him overcome these things. He also seems to believe that he's possibly above the law, which will make for crazy times!!   Choose a location, so you can play "Dead Player Battleship", featuring horrible quarterbacks, realize that seeing your brother be killed, in front of you, would mess anyone up, and decide to  NEVER hit a child, especially if it isn't even yours with Adrian Peterson - Part 1!! Check us out, every Tuesday! We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!!   Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman   Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: [e-mail] Get all the CIS, STM & YSO merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com   Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things CIS, STM & YSO!!   Contact us on... instagram.com/smalltownmurder facebook.com/crimeinsports [e-mail]

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Yeah. Adrian Peterson, everybody. Oh, yeah. I saw people guessing nobody guessed it. Nobody guessed Adrianne. Nobody guessed Adrian Peterson. Maybe somebody didn't. I missed it, but I was looking through dozens of comments of none of Adrian Peterson.

So this is who we have. That's good. It's good. Yeah, he's very, I think it's cool. It's a surprise. And he's been, this guy for such a famous guy, he gets arrested all the fucking time. constantly being arrested. It's crazy. And nobody, like, makes a big deal out of it.

No. There's a lot of police activity in this man's life. So much of it. So much of it. So much of it. So we'll get into this. Adrian Lewis Peterson. Really? AP, obviously, people call them. It's very creative. Very creative nicknames that we give out nowadays. Right. You know, not exactly the Sultan of SWAT. You know what I mean? AP. Okay, great. They called Antonio Brown AB, right?

Yeah. So, I mean, it's just, they're so. Alex Rodriguez, A-Rod. Terrific. That's great. We've lost all creativity and journalism. I swear to God. Babe Ruth had 45 nicknames. This guy gets AP, and that's all.

One of my friends' son's nickname on his football team is El Diablo because he put a kid in the hospital. That's great. See, now that's a good nickname. That's a good name. You can call him like the pediatric bone crusher or something like that's funny. There's a lot of names.

Yeah, you could use for a kid like that. He trucked a, he's a, I think he's a junior or a sophomore. He trucked a freshman starting quarterback and like, he put him in the hospital. And his grandma is a... Some kid who weighs 118 pounds. A child. And he's the biggest kid on their team. A fucking child that weighs 118 pounds.

And he trucked him. And then everybody celebrated. Think about that. That's hilarious. El Diablo's grandmother was in the stands and she's got a little case of the dementia. She stood up and was cheering. You killed him. That sounds a lot like what my grandmother would have done.

Clopping, Jake. Yeah, yeah, not scared. Excited. Yay, you've murdered a child. That's the greatest story I've ever heard. Take that to math class, asshole. Yeah. That is amazing.

I love that story. That's awesome. It's amazing. So, Adrian Peterson, born March 21st. He's got a birthday coming up here. 1985. I don't know why he seems older to me, but he's only 40. Is he that much younger than me? Yeah.

He is. He's younger than us. He seems older, though, for some reason. He just turned 40. Just turned 40? Well, no, he'll be 40 this month. He'll be 41 this month. Yeah, all right.

So, yeah, he's been 40 for a while now. A year, but you know what I mean? He just turned 40. Oh, he's not the actual age. You're saying, in terms of decades, to round the decades, he's only 40. Yeah, he's born in Palestine, Texas. Mm-hmm. Which I didn't know they had a Palestine in Texas, but why not?

What the hell? I'm not getting into that. They have a gun barrel city, so anything's possible. Yeah, may as well. Yeah. We got, he's 6-1, 220. Big cat. Big dude, not a guy he'd want to tackle, really.

With guys, holy fuck. Oh, just a big son of a bitch. And we're talking, he's an NFL MVP, he's offensive player of the year, he's all pro, he's pro bowl. This guy is not a marginal player. He's an all-time, he's an all-time leading rusher in top 10. Yeah, he's an all-time great. Like, he might be, it's hard, it's hard to keep him out of the top 10. No, no, I mean, in yardage, I think he is in top 10.

I'm just talking about because yardage is not a great measure for how great a, running back is. It can be, but it's... I mean, he was playing against the Packers, Bears, and Lions. That's pretty impressive. I'm just saying like, it's hard to keep him. He's got almost 15,000 career rushing yards. That's crazy. That's crazy. He's definitely in the top 10 there. I mean, it's hard to keep him out of the top 10 running backs. Yeah. Yeah. Of all time. Of all time. It's difficult. I mean, I'm trying to... I mean, if we're going to put OJ in there, we can certainly put him in there. Oh, I don't care about

Yeah, no, criminality aside. I'm talking about skill. And, you know, OJ is probably, he probably makes the list here. Yeah. If you go through, what? Barry Sanders, fucking Walter Payton, Jim Brown. You got to put those three in the top three. Sure.

In any order, really. And OJ and Adrian and Emmett Smith are all there. Yeah. You don't like Emmett? It's hard to put Emin in the top ten. It really is. He was dominant for so long. His team was dominant.

He wasn't dominant, though. If you put him on the lot. Put his patience. Switch him and Barry Sanders. How many yards is Emmett Smith? Oh, God. Barry has five rings. Barry has five thousand yards more than anybody else.

Absolutely. He played in the league four years before his knee problems fucking made him a backup probably. That might be unpopular. There's nothing about him that's especially skillful or you can say he does this better than anybody. Bo Jackson is certainly there too. There, Bo, yeah. I mean, you can put Bo in there. You can put Bo in there.

I mean, Bo. Thurmond Thomas, too. Thurman, very versatile. But him, I look at like, to me, Marshall Falk is Thurman Thomas. Marshall Falk. You know what I mean? Like a guy like that. Or even a guy like...

Well, Danian Tomlinson. And then what do you do with a guy like Curtis Martin who like just has a lot of... He was great too, but he played for the Jets, so he got fucked. Yeah. He's got a lot of yards. But again, he's a guy that's like, he was on New England for a long time. So if you put him somewhere else, I don't know. It's so hard to pay.

pick a top 10, isn't it? Yeah. To me, you can put like Barry Sanders, Jim Brown, and Walter Payton on any team with any shit offensive line at any time, and they'd be amazing. It doesn't matter. Because they all Jim Brown had a good team, but like Peyton played for the shit bears for years when they were terrible

and had no offensive line and no passing game to speak of. He was the whole team. So I don't know. Adrian Peterson he's a top 10 guy, I think. At least in that, hovering in that group as far as, and he was a beast. I mean, he's hard to tackle. Yeah. Yeah. So his mother is Benita Brown.

His father is Nelson Peterson. So he's not a junior. He's got that going for him. No. That's good. Good for him. He's got an older brother named Brian. He's the nephew of the former NFL running back, Ivory Lee Brown.

Was he played? Yes. Ivory Lee played for the Phoenix Cardinals. Oh, no shit. Yes, he did. Yeah, I remember Ivy Lee Brown. I just remember his football card. He only played a couple of years then, huh?

Yeah, I can remember his first. like pro set football card for some reason. That's the only thing I remember of him though. I don't remember that name at all. This is his football card. Yeah. So that's, that's so he's got running back,

you know, blood. Whatever blood. Yeah, I guess you could call it there. He also was in the World Football League, Ivory Lee, for the San Antonio riders.

Now, Adrian has a shitload of kids, as we'll talk about too. He's got six kids. Adrian Peterson had six children? Which, Yeah, seems to me that that's... Are they all the same wife?

We'll find out here as we go through it. It can't be, right? It seems like, from what I've heard of him, patience isn't his number one virtue with the children, Adrian. Just from what I understand. Yeah. From what I've heard. So that's interesting.

Now, his mother was a three-time Texas All-State Sprinter at Westward High School. Wow. So, yeah, not too bad. there. He comes from athletic stock. She was a scholarship sprinter and long jumper at the University of Houston as well. All right. So we're talking a real athlete, as mom was. Excellent. Which is pretty impressive, honestly, here. Now, his father, though, Nelson, was a McDonald's All-American out of high school before attending Idaho State. He had a tryout with the Philadelphia 76ers.

Nice. So, I mean, his dad, you know, borderline professional. Proz were looking at him. Yeah. Pros are looking at my dad. Yeah. That's what I mean. That's pretty impressive athletic stock to come.

If you put those two people together, they make Adrian Peterson. Yeah. So his dad, though, Jesus Christ, before his tryout with the 76ers, it's not even like he got to try out and didn't quite make it. That would have been something. No, he was back home in Houston, and his brother was cleaning a gun. and shot Nelson in the thigh. It shot him in the thigh. Before the 76ers got to look at him?

Never played basketball again. Oh, my God, I'd be furious. He'd still have the gun and I'd be trying to choke him to death as I bled out from my femoral artery. I'd be like, you son of a bitch bastard, I'll kill you. I'll fucking kill you. You just destroyed my life. You better not let me get a hold of that gun, I swear to God. Holy shit, that's horrible.

but yeah Nelson Peterson was a standout shooting guard for Idaho State but good Lord he got shot that's crazy wow so apparently Benita and Nelson they definitely believed in beating the shit out of their kids that is corporal punishment is in this house big deal I mean and they're in like Texas in the 70s too near Houston yeah there's a lot going to because Adrian was born in 16 or what was born in a 60, no, 70, 80, Jesus Christ, yeah, he's born in 85, sorry. 85, yeah. So that's a little late to be beating the shit out of your kids. I was going to give him an excuse.

I don't know, I was 81. Yeah, yeah, no, people knew better by, because 85, you figure he was five by the time he was, because you don't beat an infant, I would hope. No, you beat him in 1990. I think by the time 1990 came around, we knew. I mean, like, I still got the shit beaten out of me, but that was by a foreigner. So, yeah. I give someone from another country a, you know, a little bit of grace of that.

I guess that was like trash. Yeah. I give like foreigners who grew up under Nazi occupation a little bit of grace. But otherwise, I figure 1990 in Texas, you should know better. But I don't know, I guess not. I guess not. Some people still beat the shit out of their kids. I don't get it.

Yeah, I think that generation, though. Great point. I know a guy that does it now. We know for a fact that it's not good to do. It's not good. They've done all the studies. All it does is making your kids aggressive or meek. That's it.

Overaggressive in a bad way or meek. One of the two. And it fucks up their whole, it just fucks them up psychologically. It's not good for them. But the alternative is don't hit them and then have an argument with them. And then they put their hands on you. Well, then you don't hit them. Generally, they don't do that unless you've already abused them.

I don't know. My daughter put her hand in my chest this weekend. And I was like, how dare you? Yeah. But I've heard you talk to her. More like her talk to me. Yeah, the way you guys talk, I feel like that's only the next step. Yeah, that's true.

That's different. Yeah, I don't get it, though, why they're beating Adrian, but they would beat him. They'd call it whipping, obviously. He'd whip him for misbehavior. More, I guess, both parents did it, but his father was the main beater, apparently. Other than his mother. His mother was. His dad wasn't in the service or anything, huh?

Not that I find out. It was a basketball player played at Idaho State. Wow. So, yeah, this isn't like, you know, I come from a long military family, and this is how we discipline. No, his dad is a basketball player. That's what I assumed.

It's not even a violent sport. You call for foul. If you're doing anything to your kids, if you're doing anything to your kids that would be considered a flagrant foul on the court, it's probably bad. And you get ejected for the shit. Yeah.

Anything that would catch a whistle is probably you shouldn't do off the court with your kid. his nickname by the way because he has AP but they also call him all day that's another nickname for Adrian Peterson I heard that a lot that was given to him by his parents because as a toddler he had constant energy boundless energy yeah at least there's that and not dad has to kick his ass all day all day that boy takes an all day ass whoop in that little toddler I'll tell you something he won't listen unless I peed him all day oh man now

his dad's brother, so his uncle, Adrian's uncle said, told the press later that when Adrian was in elementary school, doctors recommended he be given medication for ADD. Okay. He's got so much energy. I think they just put shoulder pads on him and put him out there and said, you can't, if you're running back. Yeah. By the end of that day, you're not, you don't have any energy left. You've been tackled, you've ran, you've took that out of them. Put shoulder pads on him and try to let him run through the Buick.

Yeah. His dad said, quote, it's not something that can be whipped out of him. That's what his uncle. I tried. It's an odd way to think that giving him medication is whipping it out of him. Well, it's an, I mean, that statement comes from a man who clearly tried. Just because the kid is excitable, it doesn't mean you can, beating that does not calm that kid down. No, not at all.

Now he has energy and he's angry and violent. Now he's got all the energy to cry. Yeah, now you're the 500th episode of crime in sports is what that creates. That creates this environment where you're... You can't beat that out of a child. Made fun of by two idiots for a two-part episode of multiple hours. That's not good. So they said that this particular relative told the newspaper that Adrian Peterson's dad would use a belt or a switch for the beatings.

So this is even with an object, which is like the next, like, weapon. Yeah, if you go to a psychiatrist and they say your parents beat you and they go to hit you with a weapon, do they hit you with an object? That's the main, that's like, that's the line of abuses. Yeah. A close fist, obviously, too. But was this a smack on the ass or were you hit with an object? That is the step up from an object. Yeah, that would be.

So this, they said he would do that. One of, a notorious beating, this article calls it, came outside of the, came outside of the, his middle school because Adrian had been disruptive in class. One of his coaches in the peewee league was his father who benched him when he got an F in one of his classes, which that's good. He should do that. That's a good punishment. That's a good punishment.

You like playing? Well, he ain't going to do it if you can't don't fucking do your schoolwork. The beatings from his father stopped when Adrian was a teen. You would think probably because his thighs are the sides of a fucking telephone pole and you don't want to fuck with that kid. But no, it's because his dad was busted for money laundering for a crack ring. Ha! I would, second my dad got out, I would beat the living shit out of him.

How fucking dare you discipline me for a... What did I spill some shit on the carpet? You're laundering money for crack dealers. Fuck you. My dad would have an ass whoop and waiting for him when he got out. You better hope you stay in there, motherfucker. I'd be sending him letters. As soon as I see you, it's on.

You're all if this is strike free. Yeah. I've been saving up switches for you. They're all piled up in the backyard. Every day I get one that you're gone. Every spring, I got a new one. I got a new one. I carve your name into it.

It's very nice. I temper it in the heat. That way it won't break. It's real good. He spent eight years in prison. Golly. That's a lot of fucking prison, man. When did he go in when he was in his teenage years?

Yeah, apparently when he was a teenager. So that's when he... The beating stopped at that point. Now, we will say this, too. In Texas, this is, for some reason, medical research, psychological things. None of this has filtered its way down to Texas somehow. I don't know how they fucking, I know they have a, they want a border wall, but they have a wall around science, too, that they're not allowed to get to and like logic and, you know,

things like of that nature down there as well. And it's legal to beat your kids in Texas, by the way. What? It's legal for teachers to beat your kids in Texas. Do you know that? Still? Absolutely. It is still legal for a teacher to write a note?

Your fucking kid in class. That is not an illegal activity. That's, uh, that seems wrong. That seems wrong. I get that back in the day, I've told the story of my grandfather in second grade going to the teacher and going, you know, if he gives you any trouble, feel free to smack them around. Right. And everyone was horrified.

And that was 1983 or something, 1984. And it was like, Jesus, Christ. Apparently in Texas, that was considered normal. I don't know. And in my family, it's an Italian family. Everybody beats the shit out of each other when I was little. You know what I mean? So it's like kids get beat.

I wonder are there laws against corporal punishment in school specifically? Or can you, as a parent, sign a note anywhere? Not anywhere. No. But in most places? In a lot of places? I'll give you. I'm sure I can guess the states.

Picture which. Picture the map. And then picture which colors or which ones of who's allowed to beat the shit out of the kids. Strangers are allowed to beat your kids and strangers aren't allowed to beat your kids. Yeah. Is there New England, Colorado? Anyone's getting pissed right now. You know exactly what I'm talking about, so don't get pissed.

Yeah. You know if you're favorite or not. You get what the fuck's happening. Yeah. You know what the fuck's going on here. So anyway, that's what's going on here. As long, basically, the practice is legal. as long as the recipient doesn't need medical attention.

So you can beat your kid to a point. Okay. And then, you know, if they need medical intervention, if you like break bones or something, then it's, hey, we got to have a little talk. Deep lacerations. Yeah, ease up a little bit. Beat them a little less hard. Take it easy on the temper.

Yeah. They also said that one guy said he and Adrian Peterson got paddlings by their school team's defensive coordinator. Oh, what? Which, if you couldn't make football any more gay, you just somehow made it even more gay. You just somehow just touch each other's dicks, please. Just do it and get it over with because I'm so fucking sick of this gayness. This overwhelming gayness that you guys are.

Spanking, flogging, whichever way you want to call it, that is a kink. That's a kink, exactly, that you're doing with strapping teenage boys. Yeah, gross. Jesus. Fucking gross. The one guy said, you would bend over and brace yourself. Bend over. We know.

Yeah. That's what I'm saying. And however many licks had been assigned to you. Bend over and take your licks. There's nothing. Yeah, that's because we're so. Come on, guys. Licks.

There's so many awful words. It's just awful. This guy said you were not able to sit down for a few hours afterwards. Ooh. The coach who would do that. Booker Bowie. He's since retired, thankfully, and now runs his own barbecue business

where he just beats the shit out of pigs instead. Yeah. He beats him to death. That's how they paddles him. Now it's called tenderizing. Yeah, exactly. He called it tough love. Wow.

All right. That's just, if you're not smart enough to mentally figure out how to change a child's behavior, you probably aren't smart enough to have kids, I'm going to say. If you're only recourse,

I'm so mad, I beat child. You're too dumb for kids. You're too fucking dumb. Your kids are going to be dumb like you. You let your frustration get so much a hold of you that you resort to violence. That's honestly. That is. It's violent.

No, it's pathetic. Yeah, it is. You're taking it out on a kid. Yeah. That can't defend themselves. It's pathetic. You know what I mean? That's just, it's the, I don't think of anything more pathetic than that.

No. Beating your fucking wife is less pathetic than that. At least she's a fucking adult. You know what I mean? Let's not split hairs there. Oh, I'm going to split hairs. If you gave me somebody that smacks his wife or smacks his kid and you go, who's a fucking worse person?

It's close, but kid beat her is worse. At least wife can get in her car and fucking drive away or pick up a goddamn knife and stab the guy if she wants to. There's some recourse possible. She can go seek help. A kid can do nothing for themselves. Yeah. And that's the least funny thing you've ever said that makes me.

Because it's true, that's why. You're the fucking son for a kid and you're beating them. Are you kidding me? That's pathetic. And it's your job to protect that child. Now you're doing, it's like that fucking monkey that keeps getting drug around the fucking cage. That's so sad. It's fucking sad.

How do you see that and not have fucking tears well up? It's horrible. If you're a kid, your parents are solid ground. And if they start hitting you now, it turned to quicksand all of a sudden. You can't trust anything. And that's why you turn into a person who doesn't trust anybody. And there's a fucking asshole and goes on social media and says dumb shit. Every asshole that you can talk to online could be traced back to a lot of them can be traced back to this type of shit.

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I saw the whole thing happen, about five feet from where we were. It was crazy, man, crazy. I ran to him, got on my knees, and kind of picked up his head and put it in my thigh. I said his name, but he didn't respond at all. He was brain dead. Jesus. Later, I had a chance to say goodbye. I was there when they took him off life support.

That's fucking horrible. That's traumatic. That's some trauma. Well, you know, that'll make angry. Saw it happen. That's horrific. And saw a dead body. Yeah.

That's absolutely fucking horrific, man. So he said, losing him actually, seeing him get killed right there in front of me made me a stronger person. All right. I mean, eventually, yeah, I guess in hindsight. My mom cried every night, every night. Honest to God, she cried for a year. My mom and dad had split by then. Well, he was in prison.

So, yeah. So I had to sit there, comfort her. her and be strong and not show my tears, even though I was hurting as much as she was. He said he became the man of the house at that point here. So, yeah, he said I ran down there. I held my hand under him. I was calling his name, but he wasn't responding. So I ran to my aunt's house and told her what happened.

And it was two days later, they pulled him off life support. They were only 11 months apart, too, which is pretty goddamn close for brothers. That's under a year is very, very close. Adrian's mother said everything they would do they would do together Brian was the speedster of the family They were saying they always running everywhere Brian was faster He was a year older so

So that's that's tough man Benita said I was a young mom And it was a devastating time for me And I know it was only by the grace of God that got me through If the devil would have had his way I would have been some Sodomite now Oh for fuck's sake Oh for heaven's sake

Jesus Christ These fucking superstitious insane people. Okay. But God saw me saw fit for me to overcome that and what happened to my son. See, that's the thing. I get this because you got to turn

to something when this happens. The whole Sodomite thing, you're going a little far. But I understand you're looking for solace, you know, so I would get whatever makes you feel better at that point. Man.

But that's where it starts and it gets extreme after. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I think she's already, I would have been a sodomite by now. She's already gone past the extreme threshold, I would say, into that territory. She says it seemed like he grew up a lot quicker than normal, and that's a lot on a seven-year-old kid, but it seemed like it was motivation for him. Adrian said, I could never beat him running

or anything. I was bigger than him. We had different dads, but athletic-wise, I looked up to him. So that's one thing I wanted to pattern myself by, to be like my brother. I run for him. Yeah. All right. Now, Adrian Peterson's stepfather was going to be a pastor at a Baptist church in East Texas. Holy shit. An East Texas Baptist Church. They're very real forgiving and kind in there.

There's no fire and brimstone. And Jesus Christ. When he was growing up, he attended his stepfather's Cedar Branch missionary Baptist Church in Grapeland. And he said his concept. of negative and positive thinking is rooted in biblical language of good and evil. Sure. Adrian says, I got to give them in their own words for this because it's so fucking stupid. This is why we do this show right here.

People say dumb shit and it's all recorded. Okay. In their own words, quote, the devil is always at work. Sure is. He's going to shoot those darts no matter what. I feel like a lot of people, they give up when the devil is shooting those thoughts and stuff in their mind. He alters what God has planned for him.

They're never able to get back on track and refocus on things. So in that instance, the devil kind of won. Does he have a dark gun? I do know that. This is, yeah, now he's sitting there with a dark gun. This is all just so ridiculous. I'm sorry. I get some people are religious and that's fine.

When you start talking about the devils and all that, you're just crazy at that point. And you start arming him with some wild shit. You're not spiritual. You're just making up insane. You're, it's, it's hallucinogenic. It's fucking crazy. If someone said anything, replace the word devil with anything else in there. You'd put him in a fucking room and lock the door.

So what are we talking about? Why is it different? I don't get it. Okay. Cupid had the darts. He was also running shit. Yeah. And he fucked up a lot of people's lives too.

The devil and Cupid. Everybody bad got darts. One's making my dick hard. One's making me want to do things I don't want to do. It's not good. I don't know what the devil's darts to. They might make you dick hard too. Yeah.

This is from an article from October 9th, 2006. This is his dad, Nelson. He said one day when I was 25, a gun my brother was cleaning went off and the bullet entered my left leg. Then I had to battle for three years to save it from a staff infection. Jesus Christ. Oh, God. After going from hospital to hospital, I finally agreed to an experimental treatment in Galveston. Basically, I was a guinea pig.

They saved my leg, but they couldn't save my athletic career. the infection had eaten up the muscles. This is when Adrian's 2, by the way, at this point. This is 87 when he was trying to go in the NBA. He said, when he was six, I felt it was time to get his feet wet in football. I started to teach him the fundamentals, like how to take contact, how to dish it out. He had a lot of definition to him, and although he wasn't real tall, he was fast. Wow.

All right. He said, I was a lift driver at Walmart back then, making 18. dollars an hour and I had 10 kids all together. Hey, I don't want to hear about the devil and your God and all this shit. Did God say go knock up fucking eight women and have 10 kids? Because I don't think, I don't remember God saying. These people love to fucking judge other people while they got 10 kids. And make no money. Can't even support them. That's what I mean. And I know you don't have 10 kids all the same woman and I don't care you can have as many women as you want. But don't fucking talk shit and talk about God when you're doing that. So annoying.

that shit. For each other, you're so much better than everybody else. Yeah. And how you got to do this and the devil and I'm a son of mites and all this. Shut the fuck up. Yeah, keep your fucking... Keep your dick in your pants. How's that?

Yeah. Get some overtime. You got to feed those kids, man. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Shut up. Don't worry about what I'm doing over here. Don't give a fuck about religion, but I have two kids from one woman and take care of them just fine.

And I don't want to hear your bullshit. Don't worry about the abortions I had. I couldn't feed them. Yeah, there you go. Being smart. He said, but that's not why I decided to sell drugs. Oh, no, it was it? The vacation.

Oh, then there's that. What was it about the lucrative world of drug dealing that made you go there if it wasn't to feed your 10 kids? That's the only excuse I'll take for that, by the way. I had 10 kids, I need to feed them. All right, well, you've got to feed your kids. Oh, yeah. Also, I went to prison for eight years because I couldn't take care of all these kids that

made. Jesus. You probably went to prison on purpose with 10 kids around. For vacation. Wait till these motherfuckers are 18. You can't take it anymore, man. He said, I think maybe I was still devastated by my injury. Maybe I had a sense of entitlement and thought I should have played professional ball and lived a certain lifestyle. Yeah, because if you're a college basketball star too, you've been put on a different pedestal and then they're like, put these, take these boxes and move them over there. Right. He's had a taste of the good life, James. Somebody took him to a very nice dinner one night. And he was like, and now that I'm like, move that box of sneakers for us.

Move that box of cheap sneakers for us, please. Allow this W-2, you're paid the first and 15th. Fuck, that's brutal. He said that dream was taken away from me by that shooting incident. I got to go to, I got to a fork in the road with an opportunity to turn right to go back to school to finish my degree, go on as a productive person. But instead of making that right, I made a left. And that turn led me to destruction and eight years of prison. He said the first time I sold crack was in Palestine, Palestine, Texas.

I think it was for $50. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to sell drugs. It's just supply and demand. The demand was there, and I supplied it. It's not something I was proud of. He said, there's an image of a drug dealer, all the gold or ring on every hand, hanging out on the corner, drinking and partying all the time. I wasn't like that.

Drugs were being sold, but I was still on at Walmart from 730 to 7 to 330 every day. When I was arrested, I had $1 million, maybe $1.5 million. I had several houses, real estate, accounts in different places, how many cars, more than I needed. Whoa. Yeah, well, Eric, that's something. He's very successful at crack deals. He's excellent at it. He's the best.

August 7th, 1998, he said, I'll never forget the date. the day before I'd brought Adrian back from a trip we'd taken to Orlando. Benita and I were separated at the time. The feds came and I wasn't at my house. They kicked down the door. My sister paged me to tell me, man, I think my stomach might have, I think my stomach might have broke my big toe. It dropped, I guess, that means hard.

Real fast. I never heard that little idiom before. Never. Interesting. He said, look, I did wrong. And any time you do something wrong, and I've taught Adrian this, you've gotta face it. I've turned myself in the following day. Later, I pleaded guilty to money laundering from drug proceeds, which carries a longer sentence than basic money laundering. He said not too long

after I turned myself in, Adrian came to visit at the Smith County Jail in Tyler, Texas. One of the most difficult things I ever had to do was tell him and my daughter, Nelsha, she was about five at the time, what daddy had done and what I was facing. You're on one side of the glass, they're on the other. Adrian picked up the phone and all I could say was I'm sorry. Adrian and I, we have a special bond. He said, even from prison, I kept in contact with him all the time, wrote him twice a week, phoned him every day. Federal institutions allow you to call from six in the morning until 11.30 at night.

Okay? He said, by his junior year of high school, Adrian was a little slow getting his act together with football. He visited me and I said, son, you have the God-given ability to be special. but no matter how bad I want it or how bad your mom wants it, it doesn't matter, you have to want it for yourself. Right. He looked at me and said,

Daddy, I'm ready for you to come home. I said, it won't be much longer, but I need you to step up. I need you to love the game. Right now, nobody knows who Adrian Peterson is. I know you're the best running back in Palestine, but that won't get it. You have to be the best running back in the whole state.

This is your year. Go out and make a name for yourself, son. All right. So, yeah. Adrian said after Brian died, his brother, we moved to Palestine where my dad lived. I spent a lot of time with him and we got even closer. What my dad did was wrong. He'll tell you the same thing.

No excuses. Working at the warehouse with 10 kids to support, he made a bad decision. He'd made all the money he needed by the time they caught him. He just didn't stop. I really didn't know what money laundering was, but I had common sense. Parents don't think kids see stuff, but they see everything. He never sold drugs around us, but I knew something. was going on. Yeah, how does dad work at Walmart and have four cars? That's pretty, even at 14,

you can do that math. You know what I mean? 13. You go, this isn't right. No one else at Walmart works that, makes that kind of money. Nobody at Walmart has two houses. As a real estate portfolio. Yeah, I doubt it. So, yeah, he said the day after he was arrested, he called me from jail, and he said, make your daddy proud, stay in the books, keep trying to be the best in everything you do. I cried the whole time he was saying it. The first time I visited him, he was in county jail. He'd been there for about a month. There was no contact allowed.

I talked to him through glass over the phone. The first thing he said was, I love you. Tears dropped from his eyes. I know it was hard for him sitting there looking at us, but I never felt he let us down. He spent time in different federal penitentiaries. When he was in Texarkana, we drove about four hours to get there. My aunt Patsy would wake up at five in the morning.

She'd already have made snacks so he could just get up and go, visitation hour started around 10. He said, you go to one of those places, and it opens your eyes. Metal detectors, no open-toe shoes. Visitors had to wear long pants and couldn't bring in combs. Couldn't bring in anything, really, except quarters. That's what the vending machines took. He said, while I was being recruited, I'd visit my dad and we'd write down lists of positives

and negatives for each of the schools I was looking at. Ended up being a tough decision. People don't realize how close I came to going to USC. Really? Well, think about it at the time. That's about 2008. Reggie Bush, yeah. They were on the end of a long crazy run at that point.

I mean, everybody on their team was a first-round draft pick. Huge. Matt Barkley was a fucking... Matt Linerd at the time was a first-round draft pick. Matt Liner was starting. He was fucking terrible, and he, like, chose an 11th overall or something. So that's saying something. He said, when it was time to choose, he and I both wrote our picks on a piece of paper and folded them up.

Okay, let me see your... he said, and I showed him, University of Oklahoma. Let me see yours, I said. He handed me his piece of paper. Whatever decision you make, I'll be happy, is what he said. His dad. In University of Oklahoma. I think that's where he went.

I thought he went to. He did. Yes, he did, that's right. So he was a three sport athlete in high school, by the way. Football, basketball, and track. They're always in track also as the second thing. But football was his best sport. He's only six-one.

So basketball, you better be pretty good. goddamn quick if you're going to be 6-1 and have anything going on in basketball. During his sophomore year, he was not eligible to play for the Palestine High School varsity team. But his junior season, he ended up with 2,051 yards on 246 carries. That's 8.3 yards of carry. I was going to say that's about 10 yards of carry. That's almost a first down every single time. Yeah, if you give it to him three times, you will assuredly have a first down by any stretch.

You need two, two every time. If you have three times to give it to him before you have to punt, you're definitely getting a first down. Don't even bother doing anything else. And 22 touchdowns. He started to attract the attention of Division I recruiters. And, you know, he started realizing that, you know, he might have to make some choices of where he wants to go. As a senior in 2003, oh, I said 2008. I meant 2003.

For some reason, I said 2008 when I was talking about USC. USC thing, yeah. Yeah. But in 2003, as a senior, he rushed for 2,960 yards. 3,000 yards. On 252 attempts for an average of 11.7 yards a carry. A first down every single time. He averages 12 yards of carry.

That's ridiculous. And I guarantee you it wasn't amazing blocking schemes that left big holes for him. He was just dragging children. He was dragging three kids with him. Yeah. He's just dragging. children behind him as he, till enough got on him to bring him to the ground. Till a couple tied his shoelaces to get.

Yeah. 32 touchdowns, too. After a game, players from the other team asked for his autograph. Really? Yeah. You're going to be famous someday. You just schooled us. Holy shit.

You just ran for 800 yards against us. How does that kid live a normal life in Texas? That's the thing. You can't. How do you do that? You can't. You think you're hot shit, I would think. Now, Maurice Claret, as we remember, because we did an episode on him, had an unsuccessful attempt to sue the NFL over its age limit in 2004, which is dumb as fuck. Age limit.

It's so stupid. It's so stupid. I hate that shit. I get that a kid might not be able to play, and he won't be drafted. And if he is, they'll learn their fucking lesson fast and they won't draft the next one. Who cares? Yeah. If a 15-year-old starts playing in the NFL and they kill him, the next ones will think, 20s will think,

They'll wait a while. They probably won't grab a 15-year-old next time. Yeah. His grandma will be screaming. You kill them. It's just stupid. If you're a tennis player and you're 14, you can be a pro. If you're a hockey player, you can be 15.

They'll fucking draft you. Soccer players. Soccer players, yeah, they don't care. So anyway, that was what they were doing. At the time, involved in the argument over whether a high school player could ever make the leap right to the NFL, the guy that was mentioned most frequently was Adrian Peterson. Wow. Who could probably do it because he had the physicality for it.

He did great in track and field as well. In high school, he won medals in the 100 and 200 meter races, the triple and long jumps. Peterson's coach said that he believes that had he not chosen football, he could have been an Olympic sprinter instead, which is impressive. He recorded a wind legal time, wind legal, I guess. with wind blowing, I don't know, have 10.2 seconds, 10.26 seconds in the 100 meter dash, where he was first by a long, long margin in 2002, District 15-4A championships. He also posted a wind-assisted time of 10.33 seconds and the 100 meters at the 2003 UIL state track meet. Interesting. Okay.

2004, he ran the second leg of the Palestine 4 by 100 meter relay squad, led them to victory as well. So he's just killing it and everything he does here. Anything that involves running, he's got it. Regarded as a five-star recruit by both Rivals.com and Scout.com. Wow. Yeah, he was listed as the best running back and overall prospect in the class of 2004 by Rivals.com. So he looked at Texas, Texas A&M, UCLA, Arkansas, Miami. He got his choices down to USC in Oklahoma.

And he ended his career in high school at the annual U.S. Army All-American Bowl, where he led his team with 95 yards on nine carries and two touchdowns. And then after the game, he announced he was going to Oklahoma. He was awarded the Hall Trophy as the U.S. Army now. national player of the year. And in addition, he was named top high school player by college football news and rivals.com. He's fucking impressive.

Let's just say that. Yeah, he's very good. He's very good. He's the most sought after cat going. 2004, Oklahoma Sooners, they are 12 and 1 that year, by the way. Good for third in the AP poll here, not too shabby. This team, Adrian Peterson, Deshaard Choice, J.D. Runnels. Mark Clayton.

Who's their quarterback? Quarterback this year. Jason White and Tommy Grady. White was the starter who did a lot because this is right before Sam Bradford was there, right? Was Bradford there? Was he at Oklahoma? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's there.

Yeah, I was thinking Baker Mayfield. He was at, was he there too? Was he in Mississippi? That I don't remember. I don't remember. I lost interest in all by that. I don't know. I always forget.

I'm not good at keeping up with these college apps. athletes. It's just too fast. There's so many goddamn colleges do. It's hard to figure it out. So yeah, Jason White though, Christ, he had 35 touchdown passes. Not bad. What the fuck happened to him? He should have played for Cleveland. Yeah, really. Now, these college

quarterback stats don't mean anything. No? It's the system they're in and shit like that. Yeah, they don't mean anything. They don't. A lot of these call... Look at fucking... Look at Andre Ware. This is the best example of all time. It's like had the insane video game stats in the University of Houston. He had

like two starts for Detroit in the early 90s when they had Eric Kramer and Rodney Pete and they sucked anyway so yeah this is a good team a lot of guys

going to the NFL on this team looks like about a dozen NFL players on this team during his freshman season Adrian broke a bunch of NCAA

freshman rushing records really yes he ran for 1925 yards that year leading the nation with 300 39 carries as well.

And that's the most ever in college? For a freshman. 1925 was a conference leading anyway, but for freshmen, it was a record. In each of the first nine games of the season, he rushed for more than 100 yards, which was a freshman record. He rushed for 100 yards in the season opener

against Bowling Green and 183. Jesus Christ, 117, 183, 146, 225 against Texas. God damn. That's the big rivalry game. Yeah. So he could have been king of Oklahoma at that point. The amount of boomer sooner being screamed that day.

The amount of terrible accented fucking vagina he got after that. My God, with that piercing, peel the pain off the wall's accent they got there. Wow. So against Oklahoma State, he had an 80-yard touchdown run and rushed for 161 yards in the third quarter. Wow. finishing with 249 yards. He had dislocated his shoulder in the first half of a game against Texas A&M, but managed to still run for 101 yards and a touchdown.

After it. After it, yeah, which is crazy. He played the second half and everything else. His streak got broken because he saw very little action against Nebraska because of his shoulder injury. But he still had 58 yards. Against Baller, he ran for 240 yards and three touchdowns. It's a lot.

Yeah. Despite his records breaking season, he finished second in the Heisman voting. He was up for a Heisman as a freshman. Whoa. You know who he was second to? No. Matt Linerd. Is that right?

Absolutely. Yep. Who had a better career? Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Well, who's done less time in the joint, I would say. Yeah. Matt Liner probably made a pretty good amount of money.

Oh, he was a, yeah, he was a quarterback, and he stuck around as a backup for a little while, too, which he made himself some dough. I think he stayed in the league for quite some time, too. That's only what he made at USC, and then think about the NFL, too. Oh, my God, where they could pay you above the board there. He was a finalist for the Doke Walker Award, and the first Oklahoma freshman recognized as a first team, all-associated Press, All-American. He also contributed to a perfect regular season in the next season, as we'll talk about. That's a pretty big deal here. USC, I guess, in the – I will talk about 2005 in a minute.

That's the BCS championship game that we'll talk about there. But Adrian Peterson, he killed it. He did pretty well. The Heisman Trophy finalists. He got 154 first place votes. Matt Leinard got 267. Wow. Yeah, not bad.

That's about the money he made in the NFL, actually. He didn't make any money. Linerd? Yeah. Yeah, he wasn't a top like five pick and then. Yeah. He's gotten $12 million for TV and he made $13 million from the NFL. Not bad.

Jesus Christ. I mean, that's for a guy that's done what he's done in the NFL, that's pretty fucking great money. Yeah. Not bad. Dick. So in this season as well, they go to the B.C. National Championship game, the 2005 Orange Bowl game against USC. And USC had apparently reconstituted their defense just to stop Adrian Peterson.

Wow. And they limited him to 82 yards on 25 carries, and they won 5519 over Oklahoma. And after the season, he had surgery on his left shoulder also. 5519 is a drubbing. That's a beating. That's an ass weapon. 2005 Oklahoma Sooners are 8 and 4. So not great this year here.

They lose their quarterback, and they have Ret Beaumar as their starting quarterback. What the fuck happened to him? Ret Beaumar. Jesus. He only had 2018 yards and 10 touchdowns that year. That's what happened to him. Not terrific.

2,000 yards? 2,000 yards passing, which isn't that many. Oh, yeah, that's not good. It's not that much. It's about 200 yards a game in that ballpark. there. But this year, his playing time was limited by a broken foot, Adrian Peterson. Okay. He started off the season with 63 rushing yards and a touchdown and a 1710 loss to TCU. The next game, he had 220 yards and three touchdowns and then injured his ankle in the first

Big 12 conference game of the season against Kansas State. He missed time in about four games, but still ended up with 1,208 yards and 14 touchdowns. Not bad? Which is not bad at all. yards of carry too so that's pretty good 2008 oklahoma's 11 and 3 yeah different quarterbacks again Paul Thompson is now their starter all right exactly um so no rat momar no the other thing too they don't really need a quarterback that much they have this guy no you just need a guy that says hike and hand can hand it off and dump it off to him once in a while um so he did very well um he says about his dad, quote, this is Adrian, he'd watch my OU games in prison and call and say stuff like, that was a pretty nice run, but you cut on your inside foot and you need to stiff arm more.

He was always trying to make me better. You like, well, you need to not be in prison right now, asshole. How about that? How about, you need to not keep a bunch of crack at your house and leave a paper trail of your money laundering. How's that sound? How about you just put a bunch of phone books on your bellbell because I don't want to watch you get cut? Don't get cut. Don't get shanked here.

He said, when I first hurt my ankle, he said, son, I know you. I know how competitive you are. You're going to play, but you can't. You're going to try to play, but you can't. Sit out and heal. He was right. Mentally, I wanted to get it done,

but I couldn't do it physically. Now here it is, almost time for us to be together again, again, to catch up on lost time and for him to see me play. With him at a halfway house in Oklahoma City, we get to see each other. I take him to the Fifth Street Baptist Church

on Sundays, but I can't wait to see him on a Saturday. The time he's been gone seems longer than eight years in a month. This is my junior year already, just thinking about him, finally being able to look over and see his face on the sideline. There's no telling what I'm going to do. I know I'll be pumped up, man. I'll want to run wild.

Wow. So he was released from prison during the 2006 football season and was able to watch his son against Iowa State on October 14th, where Oklahoma defeated Iowa State, but Peterson broke his collarbone on the last final drive of the game when he dove into the end zone on a 53-yard touchdown run. Oh, why would he do? Celebrating, right? Just showboating. Yep.

He said he was told by doctors to be out for four to six weeks. But he only needed 150 yards to pass Billy Sims as the University of Oklahoma's all-time leading rusher. Oh, I'll be playing. But he was unable to return for the rest of the regular season. He missed seven games altogether. Whoops. So that's tough here. So he wouldn't talk about what his plans were beyond the end of the season with the press.

They'd ask him, are you going to stay or are you going to go? What are you doing? And he said, I don't know. Don't know, man. Just not sure. Not positive. So he ends up that year rushing for 1,00012 yards, giving him 4,000. 41 yards total

73 yards short of Billy Sims for the school's all-time leading rusher. That year. That was only in three years, though. Yeah. So if he played another year, he would have obviously blown it out of the water. But he decided not to play another year. And instead, he's going to the NFL

he announces on January 17th. Absolutely. It's the time. He calls it a business decision. He says, it's better than selling crack. Yeah. That's what he said. No, he said. in the end, I just realized that this is a business decision and that it is time for me to take the next step.

And he said, it wasn't easy. I haven't been sleeping much. I just put it all in God's hands, you know, and also thought about the money, you know. God's and my agent's hands. He just said in one breath it was a business decision, and in the next breath, it was all in God's hands. So is it a business decision or did God decide this for you? Did Jesus take the wheel or did a rose in a breath? Banker take the week. Yeah, which one? What are we doing? So he said after that Peterson's final carry in an Oklahoma uniform was a 25-yard run that put the Sooners ahead, 42-35 on the opening play of overtime in the Fiesta Bowl. He opted not to hold a news conference to announce his decision, but said in the statement he considered his relationships with teammates as a reason to stay in Oklahoma. He said his parents and Sooners coach Bob Stoops were among people that were advising him.

He said the last few days have been stressful. I've been pondering a lot of things and looking at it from all the angles, weighing the good and the bad. So, yeah, he said there was some things that we didn't accomplish. I really didn't want, I really didn't do all the things I set out to do. Those things, the guys and the love for college football are the things I thought about. Then I thought about money. Yeah. And reality.

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I know this has been a trying time for him and he just needs to know that we support him wholeheartedly. Adrian's been a great individual player and a great teammate. Okay. Here we go. February 27, 2007, so a month after this, according to Fox Sports.com at the time,

Adrian's half-brother was shot and killed this day. Oh, my God. Yeah, hours before he worked out at the combine. one of his dad's eight children 10 children? Yeah, there's a lot I mean But yeah, one of them did

He was shot multiple times And that was that Peterson continued with it I think so Peterson continued with his workout Because he was like Which one was that again? Yeah, I don't know

I don't know that guy I don't remember him very much He ran a 43840 And had a 38 and a half inch vertical lead He was expected They're saying in this article expected to go as high as number three in the draft. Now, coming into the league, he was known as an upright runner,

possessing a rare combination of speed, strength, agility, and size. And he really does. He's got all those things. He looks incredible. He's a, like the, if you were to build a running back in a lab, you'd go, there it is. Six one, 220. His neck, too, is so thick. Big neck, big thighs, busting through people.

I mean, he's, and fucking speed and everything else. and he's aggressive in his running style. Yeah, a lot of people compare him. And his style of upright is kind of Eric Dickerson-esque. Sure. They say Walter Payton, I don't see that at all in him, really. Peyton was a different type of guy. Gail Sayers, who was all speed and grace, I don't see that at all.

O.J. is a decent comparison, actually. O.J. was, he had that breakaway speed and would also knock motherfuckers down. And Franco Harris, too, kind of. Franco Harris with better speed. And Jim Brown, which is a pretty nice compliment also. So, I mean, that's not a bad group to be compared to. He's kind of like O.J., Franco Harris, Walter Payton, and Eric Dickerson mixed into one. Like, oh, all right, well.

Sounds good, I guess. What a terrible combination. Yeah, sounds awful. Anybody else you want to put in there? It's also a little like Gandhi and, you know, and Barry Sanders, you know. He's mixed it in. Clearly going to be one of the worst players ever. Yeah.

Yeah. Apparently, his durability was a thought for at least two teams in their draft analysis. Yeah. They thought maybe he would be a little not. If those guys played in this league today, they would get hit so hard. Who knows what they become at the league that Adrian's entering? Yeah, that's true. That's true.

I don't know, though, because they were allowed, like, they were allowed to take cheap shots at you back then. There's that too. And in the pile they're gouging and spitting. Yeah, it was a lot different. Guys aren't trying to kill each other now as they really were back then. Like Walter Payton never missed a game. Right.

What running back kid, that's insane. I don't care whatever you played in that. And he played on turf and that shit fucking concrete turf, not grassy turf like they have now. Concrete with carpet on it. Minnesota, Houston. Yeah. Chicago was turf for a long time. They were turf back in the day.

So it's brutal. It's not good. So the 2007 NFL draft, here we go. We're coming off this year. The Giants had beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl. They will that year, sorry. Anyway, this year the MVP will be Tom Brady, of course. The rushing leader will be Ladeney and Tomlinson.

Let's see, number one overall pick 2007 NFL draft, Jimmy. Is it Cleveland? It is not. It's not even Cleveland? Oh, my God. Cleveland has a number three pick. And they actually made a good pick for once. Oh, really?

It must be. Fuck. 2007? God damn. I can't even... Is it Detroit with Megatron? Did they get a first round track? No.

Detroit? You're close. You're very close. You're almost there. Calvin Johnson is the number two pick with Detroit. Oh, see? I'm starting to get the era. You had it right.

I'm pretty, I'm impressed. It's a QB. but I don't know who it is. Who is it? Jamarcus Russell. Oh, God damn it. Swinging a miss, Oakland. God damn.

Worst number one draft picks of all time. There he is. He is horrible. We've done it on Patreon. That fat fuck tackled himself. Yep. His whole, his career stats add to 18 touchdowns and 23 interceptions. Oh, my God.

Number two, Calvin Johnson. Uh-huh. Obviously, insane Hall of Fame. career, one of the best receivers who's ever lived. His style of football defined what a receiver is today and whether or not a catch is a catch. Huge any of that too. No shit.

Number three overall is Cleveland and they actually for once made a good pick they picked a tackle Joe Thomas who's a Hall of Famer now. Okay. Great. So that's a good pick. Number four, Tampa Gaines Adams. What is that? Defense end. What is a Gaines Adam?

Defense end who only played 47 NFL games. games. A terrible pick. A wasted number four overall pick is what that is. Why did they do that? Don't know. Speaking of wasted picks, the Cardinals number five overall, nobody wastes the first round pick like a Cardinals, by the way. Cleveland, fucking good God. Arizona looks up to Cleveland in wide-eyed admiration. Yeah. James, I called you about it because I was so, I don't even know what to say, but the Ring of Honor in that Cardinals stadium, my daughter played a volleyball tournament.

I have never been so embarrassed to be somewhere. Larry Fitzgerald is in the Hall of Fame and not in the Ring of Honor in the Cardinal team. He'll likely be in there this year. They'll probably make a big deal out of it this year. They're waiting for like Jacksonville to come to town or some team that doesn't draw well. And then they're going to, that'll be the Larry Fitzgerald day that they sell tickets to get people on the door. But for Christ's sake, the day he retired, they should have put that fucking thing up there. They should have taken his jersey off and they should have lifted it right.

the rafters now with grass stains on it. Yeah. Make the Hall of Fame be the people that are the afterthought doing this. You know what you're going to do with them. Do it. No shit. It's obvious. It's not in there.

Carson fucking Palmer. Yeah. How dare you. It's not even like your guy. He was better on the Bengals. He was better on the Bengals. You're an afterthought of that guy's career. Yep.

He came there after the Bengals were done with him. Think about that. After the Bengals. rejected him. Yep, didn't want him anymore. That's something. Unbelievable. So the Cardinals take Levi Brown at tackle, which didn't...

He was good? Eighty-one games in the NFL. Not good enough for a number five pick. That's not good. Five seasons, basically, is what that is. Levi Brown... Not good. Maybe thinking of something, it feels like that was a...

Maybe there was just a lot of hype around him. Yeah, yeah, because he was huge. He was a giant offensive lineman, but not any good. I remember them. They tried to make him a left tackle. wasn't good enough. That's what it is. There was a high tackle. He wasn't good enough. So by a while he was a guard after a while.

Wow. They draft. Number five overall is a left tackle you draft and they ended up with like an interior lineman that wasn't even that good. So Washington defensive back number six, Loran Landry who played a hundred three games. He went to a bunch of different places.

Number seven overall Minnesota Vikings select Adrian Peterson. The Cardinals could have had Adrian Peterson. Oh yeah. They could have had Adrian fucking Peterson and they went no. Levi Brown. Levi Brown will take

that seems good. The hype around Adrian Peterson I mean just a high school and college career. How do six other teams not take him? I mean it's I mean I understand. Did they all have the running back spot sewn the

fuck up? Doesn't sound like it. No. Like I, Oakland Jamarcus Russell, that's just a crazy David's pick. He liked his physicality and the fact that he could throw the ball 100 yards, but he's just, he's not going to watch any film. Calvin Johnson, if you're looking for a receiver, Calvin Johnson, can't say anything wrong about picking Calvin Johnson. And Cleveland, if they really needed offensive linemen, they picked a Hall of Fame tackle. Yeah. I mean, in Cleveland, you can't have Adrian Peterson without

that guy. So he would have died. Hard to say that's a bad pick. But Tampa, Arizona, and Washington and should be ashamed of themselves. They should all be incredibly embarrassed. Yes, and Landry wasn't a bad player, but still, he's not Adrian Peterson. He's not Adrian Peterson. The funny thing is, the eighth pick, Atlanta Falcons picked Jamal Anderson, which I think they just thought it was the other Jamal. I think somebody had a stroke.

I got an idea about this guy. Yeah, who was a defensive end, who only played 77 games. Then Miami picked Ted Ginn Jr., who, who, played forever. He played until 2020, so that's a good pick. Yeah, he won a Super Bowl with Tom Brady. Then he got Patrick Willis, San Francisco, Hall of Fame linebacker there. Marshawn Lynch, number 12 overall. Again, Buffalo picked him. Anybody could have had him. Revis, fucking Dorel Revis got picked 14th overall. Another Hall of Famer. So there's four Hall of Famers in this first round. Marshaun Lynch went to Buffalo first? That's right. Yeah, he sure did.

He was a Buffalo running back for a long time. And obviously it turned out to be a hell of running back there. And one of the most interesting people on the planet. Just a crazy fun guy. He's so great. He's so hilarious. Love that guy. And I hate drunk drivers so much.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Especially today when it's so easy to, he's the only, him and Randy Travis are the only two that I kind of give a pass to just for the police interview afterwards. That's just because it's so funny. Yeah. Just because it's fucking hilarious. This is insane the things they said. I'm looking at the rest of this draft.

I'm looking for like late round steals here. I'm not seeing a whole bunch of them. I am seeing a lot of people with zero NFL games played. Oh, Troy Smith, Baltimore, fifth round. He played a long time. They drafted him as a quarterback. Remember him? Ohio State guy.

He's Ohio State guy if I'm, yeah, Ohio State. Yeah. I don't know. So Adrian is the first running back selected and the first of three Oklahoma Sooners to be drafted in the draft. Wow. Here.

At a press conference during the draft, he announced my collarbone. I would say it's 90% healed. A lot of teams know that, and I don't see it stopping me from being prepared for the season. That's what it was. People were scared. He was hurt still. Well, it said two of the teams wanted to pick him, but didn't because they were leery of the injury. So that could have been Tampa.

That could have been Arizona. It was probably Arizona. They're dumb. They're dumb as fuck. That's what I mean. If there's a chance to fuck up a draft, they'll fuck it up. They'll do it. They'll do it.

he believed he said he was a player that the franchise could build around. In an interview following the draft, he said, I'm a player who's coming in with the determination to turn the team around. I want to help my team get to the playoffs, win, and run wild. I want to bring people to the stands. I want people to come to the game and see what I can do. Yeah. He really wants to run wild. He does.

He wants to run wild. Things like that can change the whole attitude of an organization. I want to win. He said, I want to be the best. best player to ever play this game. We want you to be. I think he's about a top 10 running backs. That's not bad.

Nobody on the planet that loves a specific sport wants to not see one of the best ever while they're alive. Yeah, absolutely. It feels so good to know that you got to watch Joe Montana as a kid. You got to watch John Elway as a kid. It's an amazing, yeah. Lawrence Taylor. It's crazy.

We got to watch them play live. That's crazy. Michael Jordan's entire career. Get the whole thing. Entire fucking career. From day one. Day one. It's unbelievable.

We got to go. Those shoes are ugly and then they were hugely. We got to do that. Like that's pretty fucking cool. That's cool. And kids now they get to see whoever the fuck they want to see that's, you know, impressive. We got to see some of the most amazing players. We get to see LeBron James' entire career.

Entire career. Somehow it's not over yet. Still going somehow. I can't believe it. It should be. It's over. I believe you. I mean, I have a.

I assure you, it's over. He doesn't know it's over yet. Yeah, that's the problem. Somebody needs to tell him. He's the only one on Earth who doesn't realize it's over yet. That's the problem. What he did, too, playing this long and playing this well for this long is incredible. But so everybody has a physical, just, okay, you can't do it like that anymore.

You just can't. Your body is, I don't care how much money you spend on training and things. It doesn't matter to Europe to be putting weird chambers and shit. It doesn't matter. Put hair up at the top. You can give yourself a new hairline. Enjoy turkey. But look, bud, still.

Start going there. Get the bath. Stay there during the season. You don't even have to come back anymore. You don't even have to come back anymore. You have so much money. Relax. That's where it is about these like once in a lifetime players that you get to watch and you get to see their whole career. He thinks he wants to be the best ever.

But my God, the audience wants you so bad to be the best ever. Yeah, they want to see it. It's amazing. So he signs his contract. It's a five-year deal. Not bad. Worth $40.5 million. Was that the highest paid running back in the league?

I don't know. Probably not. No, not as a rookie. There's got to be somebody with $17 million guaranteed. Pretty good contract. That's a great contract. That's why you don't see running backs get drafted as high as often anymore because they don't want to pay running backs anymore. They've decided they're disposable.

You throw them out after two years. 2007 Minnesota Vikings 8 and 8 Yeah So he's going to The reality of the NFL here The reality of the NFC central at the time Or north or whatever the fuck

That's the NSA north That's with fucking That's most central before that They had already gone to the bears The lions and the packers And the lions are not that great yet No they stink They stink

But the Packers and Bears are good at this time Yeah the Bears in 2005 went to the Super Bowl Yeah they had to be decent And the Packers, I mean, he's still at Favre. Yeah, they got good defense. So they were pretty good. But 8 and 8 they are this year. This is the, let's see who they have.

Oh, wow, quarterback Brooks Bollinger. Jesus Christ. Oh, no. That's not great at all. Brooks was there then? Brooks was there. Then Kelly Holcomb, another quarterback that they had. I remember him.

Wasn't he a Cleveland guy? Kelly Holcomb. And then was Culpeper gone already? Yeah. Yeah, I guess he was. He didn't get to play with Cole Pepper. No, probably not. Jesus, those two would have been huge together.

Two gigantic guys in the back field. Oh, and Tavarius Jackson. Oh, that's... Tavarous Jackson. That's it. So that's a bad three quarterbacks you have there. It's impressive to go eight and eight at that point. Oh, and he's going to get worse quarterbacks coming in.

Oh, it's not going to be good for a while. He announced that he wanted to be the NFL offensive rookie of the year. He rushed for over 1,300 yards that year. only took him 11 weeks into the season. What? Just 11 weeks into the season, he was on his way to Dickerson's record as a rookie runner and considered one of the elite running backs in the NFL.

And he was. He was immediately one of the top guys in the league. Nobody looked at him like a rookie. Getting over 1,000 yards rushing in your rookie season is nuts. That's disgusting. Yeah. Usually you're like a special team or not usually the,

you know, 20 carry a game back in your rookie year. He won the NFL offensive rookie of the month awards for September and October, which is pretty huge. In October, game against the Bears, big rivalry game. He had three touchdowns and a franchise record, 224 yards rushing, which is pretty impressive. He also established additional team records for a rookie during the game, included the most 100-yard games rushing in the longest touchdown run from scrimmage. He set an NFL record with 300. 161 all-purpose yards in a single game. He had 607 rushing yards through the first five games of the season,

which is second in history only to Eric Dickerson. Wow. And not bad at all. Dion Sanders, who was an analyst, said he has the vision of Marshall Falk, the power of Earl Campbell and the speed of Eric, Earl fucking Campbell, who's known for just bowling people over with his jersey hanging off and shit, and the speed of Eric Dickerson.

That's a pretty goddamn good mix there. A valid player. Yeah, he said, let's pray he has the endurance of an Emmett Smith. The embarrassing part is to have all of that and go eight and eight. Go eight and eight. No quarterbacks. He also was compared to Walter Payton and Tony Dorset, which is the worst comparison I've ever heard in my life. Tony compared Tony Dorset's a tiny guy.

He's a little speedster that wasn't going through anybody. Dorset, great back, but he was a small guy. He just was. He was short, but he was wide too. But when they drafted him, when he was drafted, it was him or Ricky Bell were the two. And Ricky Bell, Tampa took because he was a bigger back that was more durable. Turns out not to be. Tony Dorset played in the league for 11, 12 years and was a great back.

But I wasn't Tony Dorset. When he was terrible. Finished out there. Yeah, yeah, he was bad in Denver. But he was broken down by that. Still Tony Dorset? Tony Dorset. So three weeks later on November 4th, 2007, he broke his own franchise record as well as

the NFL single game rushing record, previously held by Jamal Lewis, when he rushed for 296 yards on 30 carries and three touchdowns against the Chargers. Almost 10 yards a carry. That's insanity. Wow. Crushing. And that's as a rookie. Yeah.

It was his second 200-yard game, a feat that no other rookie has ever accomplished in the season. He had a 19-yard reception in the game to give him 315 scrimmage yards in the game. He recorded the third most. scrimmage yards in a single game and the sixth game overall with at least 300 scrimmage yards in NFL history. Yeah. He's killing it. You couldn't be any better.

Eight and eight. Wow. He had a thousand yards after eight games. Oh, man. That's got to be the fastest, right? That's amazing. His 136 rushing yards represents the best eight game performance by a rookie in NFL history. In history.

My God. In honor of his record-breaking performance against the charges. the jersey he wore was sent to the pro football Hall of Fame. Yeah. Which if you're a rookie and you already have some shit in the Hall of Fame, that's pretty cool. Yeah. That's cool. In game eight of your career, you are sending shit to the Hall of Fame.

Oh, man. That is wild. Then in November 11, 2007, he hurt his lateral collateral ligament in his right knee against the Packers. Oh, shit. They were getting beat 34-0 at Lambeau Field. Take out. Why is he even in there? Yeah, put the fucking scrubs in.

Put Tavarius in there. Make Tavarius Jackson run. Yeah, put Kelly Holcomb in there. Make him run around. Nobody needs him. Who cares? Put Jared Allen in to run quarterback. He probably love it.

What the hell? Yeah, he likes being crazy. This was on a low tackle by cornerback Al Harris. Almost a month after the injury, he returned to action against the lions and had two touchdowns in 116 yards. Oh, shit. Not bad. He was named as the starting running back for the 2008 NFC Pro Bowl team. He was announced as the Associated Press NFL offensive rookie of the year. Yeah.

And named to the Pro Football Writers Association, all rookie team for 2007. As good of a rookie season as you could have. And if you are drafted that year, thoughts and prayers to Megatron, because that's crazy to have to be up against. Yeah, yeah. Luckily, he was very good, too. But what if you're the Cardinals who passed over this guy and you're like, our pick can't play tackle? What are you supposed to do then? We had to move his position. We had to move him.

He wasn't good enough. It would be like moving Adrian Peterson to fullback. He'd just make him block. I don't know. He doesn't run very well. In 2008, he won the 2008 NFL Pro Bowl MVP running for 129 yards. Not bad. It was the second most in Pro Bowl history, the first rookie since most.

Marshall Falk to win the Pro Bowl MVP award, too. So that's pretty impressive. Falk and Peterson are the only two players in NFL history to win the NFL Pro Bowl MVP and the rookie of the year in the same year. God damn. Adrian finished second place in the league in rushing yards that year with 1341. Second to only Lidane and Tomlinson. It was pretty well established by that.

Not too shabby. You also returned 16 kickoffs for 412 yards. and caught 19 passes for 268, giving him 2,021 all-purpose yards, six in the NFL. Solid season. A beast. He's averaged 5.6 yards a carry in his rookie year. That's absurd. 95.8 yards a game.

Fucking awesome. 2008 Vikings 10 and 6, baby. There you go. Going to the playoffs to lose to the Eagles, 26 to 14. But that's okay. Brad Childress is the coach here. Did they get a better quarterback? Oh, they got Gus Ferrat now.

Gus Ferrat was still playing? What? Are you kidding me? In 2000, when? Eight. He's born and so Gus Ferrot was 38 years old at this point. How did he bring him in? Gus Ferrat.

He was, he played for Denver in 1999. He played for Washington in like 95. What are we talking about? This is insane. Holy shit. Gus Ferat, Tavaris Jackson, obviously. Got to have him in there. I think they drafted him.

And then they got to have a third quarterback. There's no way they went in with Ferrat and Tavaris Jackson as their two fucking quarterback. Didn't they bring in Farv in 2008 or something like that? I thought that was later. I thought that was 2011. It was the next time the Giants won the Super Bowl because the Giants beat them with Faris the quarterback. I believe, if I'm not mistaken, I could be wrong now. I don't know when he came in.

I can't find another quarterback. Just Ferat and Tavaris Jackson. That might be it. I know they drafted Trevarious and had really high hopes for him and he could not do a goddamn thing. And they may have brought in Ferrat and just had him fucking fix it. I guess. But I mean, you can't depend on a 38-year-old guy to make it through the season. So you would think you'd have a guy just in case Farat turned to dust while he was standing out there.

I'm shocked they went 10 and 6 with those two guys. No shit. Jesus Christ. Well, he said he wanted to be this year. Adrian said I want to get two. thousand yards and I want to win the MVP. Okay. I'm doing it. Questions remained as to his durability and the ability of

the Vikings offense to take the focus off opposing, or focus of opposing defenses off Peterson. Because if you have Gus Ferrat and Tavares Jackson, everyone's just fucking you know, eight in the box and fucking keep Peterson in, that's it. I mean, there's no reason to do anything.

Push, motherfuckers. This year he plays great. played in all 16 games, started 15, recorded 10 games over 100 yards, 10 touchdowns. Damn good here. Awesome. He finished the season leading the league in rushing with 1760 yards. Wow.

Which is the third most yards for a second season behind Eric Dickerson and Chris Johnson. Shit. They both had 2,000 yard seasons their second season. Remember Chris Johnson? He was a fucking beast for a while there. No, where? Tennessee. You don't remember that?

No. Wasn't that Tennessee? I believe it was Tennessee. He's a fucking monster. I can't remember much of Tennessee running backs except for Eddie George. He's great. Yeah. In Peterson's first 30 games, he had 3,111 yards.

What? The third best start to a career running back behind Dickerson and Jim Brown. I mean. Not bad company. And he's only 40. He's only 40. 40 yards behind Jim Brown. Wow.

Not bad. He became the fourth running back in the league to lead the league in yards per game in his first two seasons, along with Jim Brown, Earl Campbell, and Eric Dickerson. Hall of Fame, Hall of Fame, Hall of Fame. I mean, Jesus Christ. He was recognized as the recipient

of the Bert Bell Award that year. And in 2009, wasn't that the old owner of the Eagles back in the 60s, 50s, I think, I want to say? He was named to his second AP. pro ball team in two years and the Vikings made the playoffs but lost. So

not bad, 1760 yards 110 yards a game he's averaging. 4.8 a carry. It's not too fucking bad. Pretty goddamn fucking good. 2009 Vikings 12 and 4. Again, yeah, they're moving. Elite. Not bad. They beat the shit out of the cowboys

in the playoffs which really everyone has done for the last 30 years. So that's not saying much. But it's fun. It's fun, though. It is fun to do. 34 to 3. E. Jesus. Fumped them.

And then they lost to the Saints, 31.28. And that was during the whole Bounty Gate shit, too, when that was going on. So, who knows? This year, let's see what they've done. Did the Saints win the season that year? The Saints did they go to the Super Bowl that year against the cults? Was that that year? It's got to be, right?

It has to be. this year they get Brett Farrv. They were like, Gus Farrat, come on. If we're going to get somebody old, at least get someone who was good. So they get Farrv at 40 years old this year. Wow! Yep, a 40-year-old Favre. And still, DeVaris Jackson, of course, going to have him in the mix because we drafted him.

In case Farrv turns to dust. Yeah, and Tess he turns to dust and the wind blows him away. Prior to the start of the 2009 season, Scout.com, and ESPN had Peterson as one of the league's top rock. running backs, which I think you wouldn't have to be a scout or have any credentials to realize he was one of the league's top running backs. So I guess Fav came out of retirement for this, and they were wondering, will Peterson have a different role in the offense this year? Because now they have Farrie who likes to throw the goddamn ball a lot. We'll see here.

But through week 10, Adrian had 917 rushing yards, and Minnesota was 8. one. So, yeah. Can't really complain about that. His opening game of the season, he had 180 yards against the Browns. I mean,

come on. What are you going to do there? Then December 3rd, 2009, it starts here. He's cited for speeding. Starts slow. It starts with a trickle. Yeah.

It's going to, the faucets will open up. And it's a good one, too. He's not like, you know, got going 68 and a 55 or something. Yeah. Oh, yeah. He could lose his driver's license

because he was clocked at a hundred And 109 miles an hour. Where in Minnesota? Yes, on a suburban Minnesota highway on a 55 mile an hour zone. A hundred. 109. He's like, I'll double that shit. Well, is he driving?

Something fast. He said that he, quote, got a little speeding ticket. That was his quote about a little speeding ticket. You doubled the speed limit, man. That's too much. Yeah. He said, I need to be more aware of the speed I was going and not let it happen again. Yeah, 110 miles an hour, yeah.

And a 55, how did you not know? Be more aware, be aware at all. Yeah, that's no awareness. You know that you're going twice as fast as every car on the road. You have to know that. Your speedometer had three numbers on the dash, man. That's wild. What are you talking about?

That is wild. It's a highway 62, 55 mile an hour. I know it was 8.30 p.m. I know it was a BMW. I don't know the exact model here. It's a normally busy stretch of road known as the cross town that connects Minneapolis with the southern and west suburbs of Edina and, or Dinah, which one is it? Yeah. Edna.

She said that he was given a citation and allowed to drive away after a routine traffic stop. That is insane. Really? He told the AP he wasn't going 109 because I wasn't going that fast. He said, but I know it was a speeding ticket And that's what it got issued for Okay. Interesting. He said he was headed to the downtown hotel

Where the team stays at night before home games. He said he wasn't late at that point. He said after I got pulled over, then I was late. He was speeding to make it to the team hotel on time To get there before curfew. And then he was late. Where enough? Was he getting, you know what I mean?

Was he getting pussy? Was he out fucking somebody? Oh, I'm sure. Sure. He's like, I got to go now. Yeah. A hundred. Yeah. He's like, a couple more pumps. Yeah. I'll drive faster. I got to finish.

I got to finish. In 2005, Minnesota lawmakers had approved tougher sanctions for drivers caught at excessive speeds. One provision requires revocation for at least six months for driving faster than 100 miles an hour. Oh, my God. Yeah. Peterson has 21 days from the date of the citation to challenge it. a state senator, I guess, Steve Murphy sponsored the law to send a message about irresponsible driving. He said, Mr. Peterson's going to be walking for a little while. That's an automatic suspension for anything over 100 miles an hour.

Just because he can go 100 miles an hour on the football field doesn't mean he needs to go 100 miles an hour on our roads. Okay. He said maybe Adrian's miscue will save the life of someone else and that's the good that can come out of this. Okay. Don't be so pricky about it, too. He's going to walk a while. No, he's not. He'll get a driver.

He's got, he'll do just fine. The team will fucking Tavares Jackson will carry him there on his back if he has to. You kidding me? So I guess they said that this type of speeding can be a misdemeanor reckless driving also and they said it's a judgment call.

So the cop kind of. He didn't like his attitude or his answers to something. No, he did. He let him drive away. He couldn't arrest him. Oh, I thought you, okay. Yeah, he could have arrested him, but he didn't. This one cop said, anytime you speed at all, it's dangerous.

But to that extreme, it's just absolutely ridiculous. Coach Brad Childre said, I don't know. I'd stay out of the police industry if in fact, if that is, if that in fact is true, you've got to take care of yourself. You can't put yourself in harm's way. And, yeah, they talk about, well, he was late to the hotel, and he said he was there shortly thereafter. and as we do with everything that's in-house stuff.

In other words, I don't care. Yeah. That's what he said. Let them do whatever they want. It doesn't matter to me. So anyway, he had a great game against New Orleans, who did win the Super Bowl that year. He rushed for 122 yards and three touchdowns in the loss. Wow.

Gets voted to his third consecutive Pro Bowl, starting running back for that team. And he's a first team all pro for the second consecutive season. 13803 yards. 4.4 a carry. Not too shabby. 2010, Minnesota, there's 6 and 10 that year. E. All fell apart.

All fell apart. It did not go well. This year, let's see. They had Favre still, I remember. Yeah, they had Farrv. He started. Yeah, they had him like three, four years? Something like that.

And then the Jets were dumb enough to take a chance on him. Oh, this is when they got Percy Harvin this year. They got him after the Jets. No. No. The Jets were after Minnesota. Yeah, he went from the Packers to the Jets, to the Vikings, which was a big, that's why it was a big deal. He was 40?

He was like 44. He was like 44 when he went to the Jets. Yeah, 43, 44. Is that right? Yeah, the Jets are the only team dumber than the Cardinals. So yeah, that's... Oh, boy, I thought he went to the Jets and then over to Minnesota after the Dick thing. No, and then he had like a good half a season for the Jets. and then it all fell apart.

He was throwing kicks left and right. And it was like, okay, you're almost 50. Time to hang it up. You can't do this anymore. Put your dick back in your pants and hang it up. I thought he went, wow, that's embarrassing. They still got Tavares Jackson, too, by the way. We're on Tavaris Jackson watch at this point.

But they also have Joe Webb who started two games. Joe Webb. We're on Tavares Jackson alert right now. We've got to find him. Tavaris Jackson started one game that year. Wow. So he finally got to play a little bit. Randy Moss still on the team here.

We forgot about that. He's been on the team the whole time here. The first three weeks of the season, he had 392 yards and three touchdowns, Adrian. He's doing great. That's a damn good team to go 6 and 10. You've got Randy Moss, you've got the Williams boys. You've got Jared Allen. You've just got no fucking arm.

Moss only started, only played in four games. This is the end of his shit too, right? No, end of his shit. He went there before he went to New England, right? Yeah, he only played four games. Yeah, the Raiders do. I think he was hurt. Like I said, Farr was hurt for a couple of games.

It kind of shit started and fell apart, fall apart here. Apparently, he was known as a fumbler up to this point, Adrian. But he only fumbled once during the regular season this year, which is impressive. He was known as a little bit fumbly before that here. Yeah, he did. And they were in like, the problem was not just that he, fumbled. It was that he'd fumble in like really important situations.

Yeah. And it would squirt out and go right to the other team. It's almost as if he handed it to them. She'd all come shooting out. After the season, he was voted as the third ranked player and top overall running back by his fellow players on the NFL network's list of the top 100 players

of 2011. So voted by the other guys in the league, that's pretty fucking impressive. Certainly. 1298 yards. what is this, 85.6 a game, 4.6 per carry. Real good. 2011 Vikings, 3 and 13. Oh, my God. This is so bad. Wow, they were 12 and 4 two years ago.

This is a disgrace. So bad. They have Leslie Frazier as the host, as the coach. He's hosting the team. He's hosting the show. Jesus, Christ. Leslie, you want to take over? What do you got? Let's see what we have for quarterbacks this year.

We're on Tavares Jackson Watch. I don't see him. Is he gone? They finally got rid of him. They have Joe Webb. Go Christian Ponder. Oh, no. When they drafted Christian Ponder, that mess.

And they picked up Donovan McNabb, who I completely forgot, played for the Vikings. That's right. He did at the end, huh? What is it with the Vikings wanting old Eagles quarterbacks? Because they had Randall Cunningham in the 90s. What is that? I don't know. Only the Eagles, though.

Weird. Give them, give them a minute. Don't let them cook, James. Yeah. We'll get it done. September 10th, 2011, Adrian signs a new contract. Mm-hmm. A seven-year contract worth $96 million.

Holy. Yeah, that's a little bit of money. Yeah. Making him the highest paid running back in NFL history. Mm-hmm. He reached 6,000 yards in his career on September 18th, 2011 in a loss to the Buccaneers. But then on October 9th, he scored three touchdowns in the first quarter against the Cardinals, setting a new franchise record.

And they are reminded that they could have had him. They're like, oh, God damn it. Jesus, why. October 17, 2011, Eden Prairie Police ticket Adrian Peterson for not wearing his seatbelt while driving a white land rover. That's it. Yep. He was one of more than 30 drivers stopped in the area during a four-hour state-weigh. wide click-it-or-ticket push.

There was a big push to find unseed drivers. He was spotted at 303 a.m. at the corner of Prairie Center Drive and Columbine Road and issued a $25 citation. They didn't pull him over for any other reason, just for that. Yeah. Peterson tweeted after being cited,

Noodle and company sounds nice right about now. Unfortunately, as of now, I'm delayed. I'm to blame. Make sure you wear your seatbelt at all times. He's trying to go to noodle and company. I just want to go to noodle and company, man. I'm hungry. Their mac and cheese is pretty legit.

Oh, yeah, why not? Get in there, Adrian. Get it all you can get, man. Especially in Eden Prairie. Some of the officers here have superhuman vision. They can see through 5% tint. Buckle up. He's like, I thought I was tinted out of that shit.

I thought I was illegal, but it turns out I'm super illegal. Turns out, I'm just, yeah, I'm going to shoot through my tinted windshield. Week 10 against the Raiders. he suffers a high ankle sprain in the first quarter. So he does not play against Atlanta. On December 24th, he was injured and needed help off the field in a week 16 game against the Redskins. On December 26th, he was placed on injured reserve, having suffered a torn ACL and MCL. Oh, no.

Knee is fucked. Yeah, knee hanging off. So they said he's going to be sidelined for nine months. Ooh, shit. It says a play after running back is hurt. QB Ponder suffers head injury. So bad series for the Vikings there. They lost their quarterback and their running back.

He ponders a lot now. Yeah, now he's just pondering. But he always comes back to the same place. He just never ponderes through well anything. Adrian said that he knew it was something bad the moment he was hit and that he was in severe pain as he lay on the field. So it was at the end of a three-yard gain. He said, anytime you take a blow to the knee like that,

you're concerned about the ACL, the MCL, he said. I'm trying to stay as positive as I can. But it's not. And so the coach, Leslie Frazier, said, we'll have to weigh it when we get back and I'll follow the doctor's lead. He said, Ponder had concussion-like symptoms. Sure. I guess so.

So in 2011, he had 208 yards for 900, or 208 carries for 970 yards and 12 touchdowns. He was also ranked eighth by the fellow players on the, top 100 players of 2012. So hurt or not, he's great. Didn't get a thousand yards, but he only played in 12 games. So that's fine. January, he's rehabbing his knee.

And he said, the pain is agonizing. And he said, I feel like the first week was the toughest part for me, not being able to sleep, waking up every two hours, just dealing with the pain and the frustration, looking ahead like, wow, I've got a long way before I'm able to move around and walk. He said, but after the first week, I feel like things. I feel like things really just got started to calm down and the pain started to subside. I was able to just get more motivated about practice

or about the process. He ditched his crutches and started working on range of motion, or working on range of motion exercises and rebuilding strength in his quads. And Vikings have put together a regimented program to get him back. That was a really horrifying injury too because it was very much like,

like Joe Burrow this year where it just it destroyed everything. Yeah, yeah. The whole season is down the fucking drain. Yeah, just one thing happened. One person who you think sows up that particular position

that's a difficult position to play. We don't have anybody else that can do it like that guy. You got Tavares Jackson out there. You're like great. We've got to do with Tveris Jackson. This is not going well, guys. You want to be on Tveris Jackson?

Watch right now. now, James? I'm going to give you two things about Tavares Jackson, you probably don't know. One, he has a fucking Super Bowl ring. Oh, yes. He got a Super Bowl ring with Seattle Seahawks. He was Russell Wilson's backup. That's the first fact. The second fact,

he's fucking dead. He's dead? He's dead? Well, your Tavaris Jackson watch is going to be very easy then. You know where he is at all times. He's in the fucking ground. He's in row 12 Stone 6 At the Eden Prairie Hemis Cemetery

You find him like somebody's Battleship now Yeah, that's how you find Tabaris Jackson That's it We played dead NFL quarterback Battleship all the time That's what we're doing It's fucking crazy

Dead player battleship That's it Oh my God, I love it Oh Christ Dead player I gotta write that down That's very fun Dead player battleship

is definitely a game that we need to invent somehow. I don't know how, but we're going to come up with something. Some way to play that. So he's in rehab. His strength and conditioning coach said that's one thing you really have to be cautious of is the first couple months. You can't push him too hard. Otherwise, you can put him at risk.

He knows that. And if he gets, if he injures it again, it may be the end of his career. Oh, he could fuck it up bad. Yeah. A second tear because they like the, they do cadaver shit, right?

to link the ligament, because otherwise you just have to wait for it to go back together. Sometimes, because it depends on the injury. If it's a complete tear, then you're kind of fucked and you have to do this. Because I remember a lot of guys now, if they have a partial tear,

they get arthroscopic surgery. They're back in two weeks. They're back in two weeks. Randall Cunningham years back, got arthroscopic surgery to fix his ACL on a Monday and played on Sunday. God damn. So, I mean, that was nothing.

It was crazy, but that was nothing. but this is like, I think, a complete tear. This is complete gone. And it's two, not just one. That's not good. Yeah, and it's both of them. That's the one in the front and the one on the side. You're really fucked.

The other ones are the ones on the sides, right? Yeah, the MCL. Yeah, right. And the lateral ones, I think, go across the knee this way, right? The lateral one he fucked up at first. So there's the sides, the front in the back. ACL's in the front and the ones that go to connect side to side. I think those are the lateral ones, which would make sense because that'd be a lateral.

I just know if you tear all three, your life is done. You're in a lot of trouble. You're not playing anything. You're playing. Yeah, you're playing cards is what you're playing. You might be playing battleship. We're doing spades from now on. That's all I can have the mobility for.

It's all I got. Dead quarterback battleship. It's all I can do. Adrian said, I know that anything I put my mind to I'll be able to accomplish. I feel like I'm going to come back better than before. I know people might laugh at that or think otherwise. But you know what? It doesn't matter what they think.

or how they feel about it. Okay. He said, don't fuck with me. I know how I feel. Sure. And his coach said, no one's going to work harder than this guy. So the hardest part for me is going to be keeping him in check.

So he's following protocol and not hurting himself worse. One thing that I don't think was in his rehab protocol was July 7, 2012. He is at a nightclub late at night. Oh, no. Doubt that's in the protocol. and he is charged with resisting arrest via the Houston Police Department. He was arrested at 2.30 a.m.

Yeah. Spent the night in jail and was released the next morning. The police spokesman said he allegedly pushed an off-duty police officer who was working security at Live at Bayou Place. Yeah. So he thought he was pushing some bouncer

and happened to be an off-duty police officer. And this was in Houston? In Houston. Yeah. Yeah. Live at Bayou Place. Live with explanation. point. As the off-duty officer

cycled through the bar at closing time, he asked Peterson and his group of friends to leave. When the officer returned, Peterson told him, I heard you the first time and pushed the officer in the shoulder causing him to stumble. How drunk was the officer? Well, he just got hit by an NFL running back

who loves to take contact. He said pushed him in the shoulder. How hard did he... He must have really shoved him. Or maybe hit him with his shoulder? He just said he pushed him in the shoulder. The officer asked him to turn and place his hands behind his back and Adrian refused. Who do you think that guy is, Adrian?

Yeah. Put your hands behind your back. I'm not a bouncer, stupid. He then began shouting. I guess apparently the guy took his cuffs out, tried to cuff him, and then Adrian pulled away and started shouting and, quote, assumed an aggressive stance. Oh. A second off-duty officer approached, but Peterson continued to resist arrest. When a third off-duty officer arrived, he was handcuffed and taken to jail.

At the station, he complained of shortness of breath. He pulled like an old lady excuse. I can't breathe, man. So you run in the NFL. Yeah, he wasn't like ever tackled or anything like that. He then voluntarily did it. So there was no physical altercation. That's why it doesn't make sense.

But he said he was checked out okay medically. So he was not subject to a toxicology examination. because he wasn't driving. Right. And so, who cares? Now, the live at Bayou Place general manager told a different story to TMZ, though. Oh? He sold the story?

He said that Peterson appeared heavily intoxicated at the time of the arrest, which he said was out of character for Peterson who had been to the club before. Usually doesn't get that drunk. Okay. It's probably depressed that he's not playing. Right. He said he characterized Peterson as a difficult customer all night that night. who was, quote, throwing his ego around and making people mad. That was until he was shuttled off to the VIP area, which is the just away from the general public, so you're not fucking up our vibe area now.

And at closing time, Peterson rushed to the bar to order a final drink when he was denied. That's when the manager said that Peterson tried to intimidate the bartender into selling him one. The manager tried to intervene but was unsuccessful. That's when the off-duty police officer stepped in and said he got to go. He said that Peterson assumed a fighting position and said he looked like he met business. He looked like he was not kidding. Yeah. He's a drunk NFL player.

He means business. With his fists up. Yeah. He said he looked really scary and I thought he was going to attack the cops. And they said also that the incident was captured on one or more surveillance cameras from inside the club, which I really want to watch that. I really want to watch that. One guy come up, fuck you, I'm putting my stance on, another guy, let's go, a third guy. Well, maybe we'll talk about this.

Seems really funny to watch. I don't know. I want to know if he threw this or if he was just pushing them off of him. Yeah, that's what I mean. Probably very effective at getting them off. Probably. Off of him. Yeah.

Just has to put his weight on his other leg. He's fine. So his dad comes to his defense. Listen, crack selling dad. I don't need you to defend. offend me in legal situations, please. You shut the fuck up and stay out of this. Thank you.

Wow. The off-duty police officer had said that Peterson used vulgar language and was disrespectful when asking him to leave the club. You know, a nightclub language. You know, like a nightclub. Yeah. You're drunk and it's 2 a.m. The fuck out. Hey, time to go.

I've done this. I've done the sweep. I was bouncing for years. You go around. You go, I had time to go. You give everybody a shot. You're nice to everybody at first. Hey, you guys got to go.

Hey, you guys got to go. If you have to make a second sweep, you get, now you're like, let's go, guys. Come on. Get the fuck out. Now it's not. Hey, guys, it's really time to go now. Now it's, all right, let's go. You start clapping.

Let's fucking move it. I mean, it's, you start hurting them like stray dogs at that point. Yeah. And those people are, the nicer to stray dogs. The drunker they are, the less kind and the less, the less thoughtful response is given back to the people telling them to leave. So, Adrian. Peterson likely said some one more fucking drink man or something. You know anything.

Come on. Let me do my thing. You don't know who I am or whatever. I found that they're easier to toss at the end of the night because they're they're drunker, but they're like spent. Yeah. And they're kind of tired. So they look at like three bounces and like, I don't want to fight three guys.

Fuck it. I'm going to go home. Whereas at midnight, they would have been fighting you. You know what I mean? You got to let them punch themselves out sometimes. You know, put a few more in there. Yeah. And stay up two more hours as an additional.

adult. Yeah, exactly. That's the fucking thing as a grown person. Adrian's dad said, from what I've gathered, he was very disrespectful to Adrian. Oh. Yeah, because he was at the bar at closing time. The fuck out, Adrian. That's why.

There's no more respect. You didn't get laid. Get out. Get the fuck out. That's it. Yeah. You struck out. Time to go home.

So he also added that his understanding is that his son didn't push him. the officer as well. But he's in jail for that. That's interesting. He apparently his, I guess it says, oh, the police, is this the police statement? Or the, okay, this is Adrian's guy, his lawyer said,

Adrian Peterson did not resist arrest this past Saturday morning and any suggestion that he pushed, struck, or shoved a Houston police officer is total fabrication. He, in fact, was struck at least twice in the face for absolutely no legitimate reason. And when all the evidence is impartially reviewed, it will clearly show Adrian was the victor. Not Victor, victim. Not the aggressor. Or both.

Or both. That's, yeah, I don't know. That's a very different stories we have here. One is drunk, belligerent, taking a stance. Yeah. He's a victor, possibly a victim, but also aggressive as fuck to put your fists up. Yeah, I guess he's claiming he didn't do that. Interesting.

This is his lawyer again. We've been investigating what happened since Saturday afternoon, and it's absolutely clear to me that the charges should not have been filed in the Bayou Club owes Adrian an apology for having put out a totally false version of what happened. He said, Adrian Peterson does not act the way he's been described in the initial report. courts, and he did not act that way Saturday morning. He was only in that club for 30 to 40 minutes, was never objectionable to the other patrons, and never physically resisted any police officer. Adrian is extremely upset about these false allegations. These charges are totally at odds with the way he has conducted himself throughout his career,

and he asked that his fans and the public at large reserve judgment until they hear all the facts. Sit back, guys. Hold on. Yep. Adrian's dad said that Adrian got a black eye when his face hit the ground while he was being detained. He said Adrian has a high regard for people in the military and the officers that help protect us. He said the officer said he pushed him, shoved him, then why is he not charged with assault? Only charged with resisting arrest. Doesn't make sense because a push isn't violence.

A push is resisting arrest without violence. Maybe they're trying to give him the best. benefit of the doubt and be a little kinder to him because of who he is. Yeah, because he was drunk on the, yeah, probably. And he's also probably a regular customer, like the guy said. Now, according to Texas Penal Code's definition of resisting arrest, search or transportation, quote, a person commits an offense if he intentionally prevents or obstructs a person he knows as a peace officer or a person acting in a peace officer's presence and at his direction from affecting an arrest, search, or transportation of the actor or

another by using force against the police officer, the peace officer or another. So he didn't keep him from doing something with force. He just shoved him like an idiot, like a drunken idiot. So that's that. They say that, you know, I don't even know what the fuck. Wow. So he's frustrated, Adrian. He's very frustrated, he said.

He said that his, Peterson tweeted a quote from, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Oh, God. Saying a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. Right. Yeah. Okay. That's a good one.

Now, his lawyer represented Roger Clemens in a recent perjury trial regarding the use of performance enhancing drugs where he was found not guilty, which was pretty hilarious. Wow. Yeah. He's a damn good lawyer. You're a big, yeah, clearly that are, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he found the first 12-person blind jury

who didn't see Roger Clemens' giant fucking head. The fuck out of here. That is a wild, huh? All right. Yeah. So, his dad said Adrian's kind of frustrated because he's the kind of guy who's tried to do the right things in society and he cares about being a high

character guy. He has a nine-year-old daughter, so he doesn't want her hearing the news about how he's being perceived. When did he have her when he was 15? He's a 9-year-old daughter? 16-7. How old is he? That's what I mean.

It's 2008. He's, Christ, he's 2009 now. So he's 24. Nine-year-old daughter? 15, 16 years old. Wow. He doesn't want her hearing in the news about how he's being received or perceived.

He must have meant nine-month-old, right? Nine years old. How would a nine-month-old know what you were being perceived as? Right. They don't even know how to not shit their pants. There's not nine years old. No. Wow.

But his dad said, I didn't realize the impact my actions have on my kids. He knows that his actions impact or affect him and his kids also. On my kids. So, yeah, there we go. July 9, 2012, they say he'll likely receive a fine. Seems like he made it a, they made, like it was made a bigger deal than anyone else would have made it, it seems like. But they said it'll probably be a fine. fine, that's about all it'll be.

Because it's not, I mean, it's not the end of the world, for Christ's sake. He was just acting like an idiot in a bar. Happened a million times. Not the end of the world. 2012 Vikings, and the cops, they didn't have to arrest him right there. No. They could have said, look, dude. The fuck out, it's closing time, man.

If you want to take a swing, then we'll start fucking arresting. But a little shove. I mean, I get that you're impatient at the end of the night trying to get people out of there. But give me a break. Who cares? are 2012 Vikings, 10 and 6. They're back, baby. Yeah.

Here it is. Quarterback still far at this point, right? Or did he go? No, he went to the Jets now, 2012. Okay. So, yeah, he was, I think this is when he went to the Jets. He did go to the Jets after the Vikings. Yeah, yeah, definitely, definitely.

By the way, there is a guy on the team named Mistral Raymond. It's mistrial. without the eye. I do remember that. I remember that name always and it cracked me up every time. His name is mistrial. Also, almost minstrel and mistrial. The worst name ever, that is. It's a bad name. Quarterbacks Joe Webb and Christian Ponder this year. E! Buddy. Yikes. They're all in on Ponder, I guess, here. They're like, we're going to give him a shot. Good luck. So Peterson starts. His status was listed as questionable, but he still ran. He got 84 yards and two touchdowns in his first game, which isn't bad.

By the way, passing Robert Smith for most rushing yards in NFL history, or not NFL franchise history. Robert Smith was the 90s Vikings running back that retired at like 29. He was doing great, having thousand yards seasons and said he was retiring to go back to law school or some shit. Good for him. Well, he still had brain cells left. He had 153 yards while they beat the shit out of the Cardinals, which is a good deal. So a lot of 100-yard games this year, killing it. December 12, 2012 here on his ACL injury.

He was going to talk about it more. The head athletic trainer for the Vikings said, anytime a professional athlete suffers a devastating injury like an ACL, there's so many emotions. But the first emotion is anger and denial. and Adrian had both of those. Yeah. He said he was, he came up after he got hurt and he got hurt and he got when they carried him off and he said right away, it's my knee.

He was asking why over and over again. Same as Nancy Kerrigan. He had the exact, I love. Why? Why? I love that this big tough guy who wants to fight cops in a bar had the exact same reaction as Nancy Kerrigan laying in a tiny skirt. with ruffles on it. Why?

He was saying, why me? Why me? Why me? Oh my God. That's fucking funny. So the doctor said, you basically grab above and below the knee and it's like pulling a drawer out.

And usually there's a good end point and it kind of clunks into place. Well, when the ACL's torn, the thing just keeps going and going and you can pull it to the moon. Oh, my God. They could see that his ligament had gone and it was gone.

So he said, yeah, they said, so you know right away, this is the face of the franchise and he just tore his ACL, not to mention it's Christmas Eve, which also sucks. So, yeah, they carded him away and they said he accepted it. He goes, all right, let's attack this thing. What's the next step? Adrian Peterson's father was the only member of his family there that night. He said that his dad said, my phone was blowing up. Adrian's mother was calling me and every family member was calling me to go.

check on him. He said his mindset from birth was what I taught him. No pain. Right. Just to show you that mindset before the game, he had promised a kid that he would sign his jersey. So unfortunately, he wasn't able to do it himself, but he sent a Vikings worker out there to get the jersey, and he signed it and sent it back to the kid. That was nice one. In Peterson's mind, quote, this was all ordained through God. It's all God's idea. That's right. That's right. That's exactly what it is. See, he said, this is, is this Adrian? Okay, yeah. Jesus was the only person to walk this earth perfect, is what he said. So, okay. Interesting. But Adrian says he can get through it. He got through the loss of his brother. He can get through everything. Right.

He said, if God saw fit for me to overcome that and what happened to, you know, all of this, I can do it. So, interesting. He said, this whole thing dates back to when I lost my brother when I was seven. Different things that I've been going through different situations I've been through in my life, praying to God and asking him to give me the strength and faith and courage, just whatever it takes to get through the situation. Okay. This whole thing here, I don't know what the fuck this is. This is from this article.

It says, it's a strange moment when the star player emerges from the shower, refuses to acknowledge the craven horde surrounding his stall of private space, and pulls on his underwear and his pants and his shirt with everybody staring, lying in wait. It feels ancient and modern all at the same time. Everyone is watching the guy carefully, cover the most impressive, I carefully cover the most impressive physique outside of Jack Kirby, and nobody knows anything, but act like this is completely fine. I know he's a dude, not secretariat. It's weird.

He's impressive. Everybody's discreetly impressed, right? Finally dressed, AP turns around and answers the same questions everybody else got, except this time, you know, how does it feel to rush for 210 and lose? Right. He handles everything perfectly, better than perfectly, so perfectly that his answers seem progressively absurd when you think about it. he said yeah I probably should have made that one nice little gain into a 94 yard touchdown run he's not putting lipstick on a pig he's trying to remove the lipstick from the most beautiful woman in the world that's the strangest who that's the strangest excerpt from anything I've ever read in my life why we cock gazed him for a while and then now we're taking stick off pigs off a hot chicks off a hot chicks very strange share. But he is killing it this year. Absolutely killing

it. Entering week 17 he needed 208 yards to break the NFL single season rushing record for most yards set by Eric Dickerson in 84 at 2105. That week they played the Vikings needing a win to clinch a

playoff. Play the Vikings? Yeah. Or they played the Packers. There we go. The game was tied at 34 in the fourth quarter when he ran for 26 yards, setting the Vikings up a game-winning field goal with three seconds left. The Vikings chose the field goal, which sent them to the playoffs,

but also left him nine yards short of breaking the record. Right. Nine yards. He did rush in December for 861 yards, which is the most yards in his single month in NFL history for a running line. Wow. Best month in the history of an NFL player.

Almost a thousand yards. I'd say his knees okay. And especially in a, in a, the month. that's like historically very difficult to do much in the NFL? Yeah, totally. Yeah, the weather's worse. The defenses are better.

Yeah. Everybody's honed in. They've watched you on film all year. You know exactly what you do. And that leather bit is so important. Yeah, it absolutely is. So he had 1,019 yards after contact. God damn.

Which is pretty fucking good. He got hit and laid down another 1,000 yards. Wow. 2,097 yards, second most ever for a running back in a season. December 30th, how do you do it, Adrian? How do you do all this? Well, he says, it's just finding peace in his relationship with Jesus. That's all.

Is that what it is? That's all it is. He says, quote, Jesus Christ means the world to me. He's a great guy. Tell you what. He said, I've been through so many different situations through my childhood and now my adulthood. God just helped me get through them and made me strong.

stronger at a young age. Through all the adversity and hard times I've been through, God has always been present. I've always prayed to him and asked him to give me the strength to endure and to help others and to better understand whatever situation I deal with in my personal life, and he's always showed up. It brings hope and peace of mind knowing that God gave his only begotten son for us. I'm able to look back now and know that on Christmas Day Jesus was born and gave us the opportunity to have eternal life. No matter how many flaws we have, our God is so forgiving and understanding.

He'll never leave you or forsake you. That brings peace to me. I think they say this shit to stay out of the... I've never heard any player get to go on that long. Maybe they ask them a question. They start that shit, and then they just give the cut sign and walk away. Yeah, that's enough. Yeah, we get that.

Wow, that's a lot, man. He's talking about his favorite verses and all that kind of shit. I don't know any of that stuff here. He's talking about the Bible also says in Romans 10, 9 and 13. I don't care. Okay. Peterson became only the seventh player in NFL history to eclipse 2,000 rushing yards. They also went to the playoffs, which is good,

although quarterback Christian Ponder was unable to start due to injury. He didn't make the playoffs. So he didn't make shit. Pretty good. He's the NFL offensive player of the year, and he wins the NFL MVP award this year. He got it. He got it. And also, second place in the comeback player of the year. What? What? How do you go? I don't understand that. How you're second place? You're the most important person on this field. Why? Peyton Manning with Denver. With his neck. That's why. That's the only way. It's the only way you were going to do it. What year was that? Frankenstein neck 2012.

Yeah, that'll do it. Did he go there then? That's what it says, yeah. He came in second to Denver quarterback, Peyton Manning. He was named to his fifth career Pro Bowl and also became first team all pro for the third time. He underwent surgery for a sports hernia in the off season

and it became known that he played through this injury starting in the last quarter of the season. It didn't matter. I think they overhyped how bad Peyton was hurt. Maybe. Because they said if he takes one hit, it might be the end of his career. Maybe his life. Because his neck was like, they tried to act like it was bird shit and bubble gum that they put

it back together with. I think they did a little better job than they're letting on. Probably. Because I don't think they would send him out there. No. Like, well, he's going to be paralyzed if anyone touches him. I don't think the league would allow that. He did win the Super Bowl with the worst performance in the history of the

NFL offensive. That was a terrible performance. That was bad stuff. Carolina just happened to run nine fucking plays that day. And Denver knew them all. Von Miller. Yeah, because Von Miller studied film and it was like, they're running nine plays, guys.

I know every one of them. And he strips back to him twice. And one went in for a touchdown. He knew every fucking thing they were going to do. Every goddamn thing. Now, this year, how they do the NFL top 100 players that they all vote for, he has voted number one in the NFL. Wow.

By his peers there. That's great. Remains the most recent non-quarterback player to ever win that, to win the MVP award. Really? Yeah, it was him. So, 2,97 yards, six yards a carry that year. Jesus Christ. Wow.

He averaged 131.1.1 a game. Yeah, how do you give it to a quarterback with that happening? Fuck, that is brutal. 2013 Vikings, 5, 10, and 1. Back to shit again. Back to shit. Let's see how the quarterback situation stepped up. Ooh, they went and got Matt Castle from fucking New England because they decided they didn't need him as a backup anymore.

Well, they decided that he is the greatest fucking thing on the planet because Tom Brady was suspended for some games for cheating. And Matt Castle happened to go five and one or whatever the fuck. And they were like, oh my God, he's a starter. Yeah, he's a start. And also Josh Freeman, they went and got from Tampa down there. Remember him in Tampa. He's bad, too. Yeah, he wasn't good either.

So who else? And also Christian Ponder, of course. No word on Tavaris Jackson's whereabouts. Yeah, I think he's in Seattle. Seattle, yeah, he's in Seattle. About to win a Super Bowl. That's awesome. 2013, Peterson opens up the season by taking his first carry of the year,

78 yards for a touchdown. Oh, wow. Which is pretty amazing. He struggled the first three games of the season without his Pro Bowl, all pro fullback Jerome Felton, but in week four, Felton came back, Peterson rushed for 140 yards.

Wow. They get real used to how guys do things, the way they, the certain way they open up a hole. October 10th, Peterson missed a practice for a personal reason, and it was later revealed that his son was in critical condition. Let's talk about this. All right.

October 11, 2013, this is going to be the end of this, and we'll pick this up. next week. All right. His two-year-old son dies in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the victim of alleged abuse by a man who was dating the boy's mother. No! Every fucking buddy's worst nightmare.

Mom's boyfriend, not even husband. Mom's boyfriend beat my son to death? Yep. He took the initiative that he would go ahead and beat someone else's kid to death. to death. To death, apparently, allegedly. Oh my God. Wow.

That is insane. So he had to take a day off, yeah, because how do you even? He said thank you to my family, my friends and fans and fans of other teams for their support. And, you know, God bless everybody. Wow. I'd be blaming Jesus if I was him if he's doing everything. I wouldn't be thanking him. I'll tell you that right now.

If he gets all the credit, hey, Jesus, where were you at? What the fuck? Sorry, but, yeah, the Sioux Falls police said additional charges are being considered because this person was originally charged with. This is Joseph Robert Patterson. It was 27 and charged with aggravated assault and assault aggravated assault on an infant. Oh, my God. How do you aggravate that assault? Oh, yeah.

It's crazy that we even have to have a charge of aggravated assault. aggravated assault on an infant. We need to have that on the books. That should be capital every time. Holy shit. This Patterson has a prior domestic abuse record with a different woman and child. He had pled guilty to simple assault in an incident last year involving an adult female and a juvenile male. Patterson recently started dating the mother here.

Recent like, imagine just the sense of. of like an entitledness of, you know, oh, I'll just beat someone else's kid. You just started dating her. And you think it's okay to hit her child? What? Wow. The incident occurred in Patterson's apartment where the boy had recently moved with his mother. Patterson called 911 on Wednesday evening to report a choking, to report a choking at the Platinum Valley apartment.

But Lieutenant Blaine Larson of the Sioux Falls Police Department said it became very clear at the hospital at the boys' injuries were not accidental. Did he bruise him up and then said, I was trying to give him Heimlich. I was trying to get whatever from, wow. They said as officers and first responders got there, they found the child was unresponsive and he was taken to the hospital. So they ended up calling the police about that or letting them know. We had detectives talked to quite a few people just to try to figure out what happened. What they ended up finding was that the injuries happened. when the injuries happened, there was one person with that child, and that one person was Joseph Patterson. The injuries found were head injuries. It was obvious to the medical staff that the abuse had taken place and those injuries were not accidental.

They believed the child's mother was gone for a short time, and that's when the injury occurred. Holy shit. It wasn't like she said, hey, I'm going to be gone for three weeks and left him there. She went to the store. Yeah. But you can't leave your kid with somebody you just started doing. No, no, I guess if you live with them. That baby's got to go with you. She moved in. She moved in with them. Oh, God, it's his house.

Yeah, it's his apartment. She just moved in there, which is fucking crazy. Wow. In the aftermath of this arrest, the Lincoln County Prosecutor's Office filed motions to order Patterson to serve two long, two year-long sentences that have been suspended on two prior domestic cases. One for simple assault and another for violating an order to stay away from the vans. victim. Court records show that Patterson has a son with another Sioux Falls woman and also shows that the mother had asked for protection orders twice, claiming he'd choked and punched her, threatened her with a knife, and held her in the bedroom against her will. Wow. He is violent. He sounds like a bad guy, obviously, beat a infant to death allegedly. Patterson was charged with simple assault against the mother, however, and was ordered to undergo family violence training and to stay away from her until completing it. Patterson's child lives with his mother who declined to comment. Another woman applied for an order of protection against Patterson in 2004 in the county he attended high school in.

Family violence training. Seems like he's got a lot of training. He's very good at him. Yeah, this is, wow, this is fucking crazy. No, no, I would say so. So anyway, there you go. Let's leave it off there. That's where we're going to drop him.

That's where we're going to drop him. Morning, a child. A child. So we will find out what the fuck has. happen next week on this bad boy and pick it up then. This will be a couple of part or two parts, possibly three, but probably two. So we'll do that. Leave it right there.

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