Walter Payton new biography details Hall of Fame running back is often drug-use, extramarital affairs and harms the loneliness that plagued him after his retirement from the NFL.
Sports Illustrated Jeff Pearlman spent more than two years working on "Sweetness: Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton," and found a startling details about the Chicago Bears running back who was so highly regarded that the NFL named him Man of the Year award in his honor.
The book will be released next week. Excerpts appear in the field of sport this week Illustrated. In one section, Perlman describes the drug in Payton:
The burden of loneliness and his marriage is not only the problems of Payton. As a player he numbed his illness with pills and liquids are usually shipped the bears. Payton popped Darvon robot during his playing days, says Holmes, "I saw him get out of the locker room with banks of painkillers, and he eats them like they were a snack," and lathered his body sulfoxide, topical analgesic commonly used to treat horses. Now, when he was a retired self-medication only worsened. Payton usually gets a cocktail of Tylenol and Vicodin. Particularly embarrassing episode in 1988, Payton visited several dental offices, complaining of severe pain of the tooth. He has received several prescriptions for morphine and hit up a few pharmacies that they are filled. When one of the pharmacists said activities, he contacted police, who arrived at the house and Payton discussed the situation.
Perlman also detail the use of Darvon pain Payton during his playing days and how it is equipped RV with nitrous oxide for use during training camp.
After Payton's career ended, he battled depression and suicide is often discussed with friends. Two no relationship contributed to his malaise. Perlman describes how the ex-wife and girlfriend both Payton attended his induction ceremony hall of fame - "they were like ships passing in the night," Payton said assistant - and made a triumphant one weekend of the worst life in Payton.
As a recent autobiography, Andre Agassi, in which he detailed his previously unknown drug, "Sweetness" will be most remembered for salacious stories revealed within. They will dominate the discussions over the next few days and brighter fuzzy stories included in the book: How cancer Payton happy boy went to the flight or those moments when he was playing ball with the children before they sign their football. Drug use and the case is making some forget about how graceful Payton was on the field and how hard he was when facing a terminal illness, and as he grew up in Mississippi alone and reassured racial tensions there with his heroics on the field.
As "Sweetness" shows our heroes are always more complicated than we know.
Sports Illustrated Jeff Pearlman spent more than two years working on "Sweetness: Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton," and found a startling details about the Chicago Bears running back who was so highly regarded that the NFL named him Man of the Year award in his honor.
The book will be released next week. Excerpts appear in the field of sport this week Illustrated. In one section, Perlman describes the drug in Payton:
The burden of loneliness and his marriage is not only the problems of Payton. As a player he numbed his illness with pills and liquids are usually shipped the bears. Payton popped Darvon robot during his playing days, says Holmes, "I saw him get out of the locker room with banks of painkillers, and he eats them like they were a snack," and lathered his body sulfoxide, topical analgesic commonly used to treat horses. Now, when he was a retired self-medication only worsened. Payton usually gets a cocktail of Tylenol and Vicodin. Particularly embarrassing episode in 1988, Payton visited several dental offices, complaining of severe pain of the tooth. He has received several prescriptions for morphine and hit up a few pharmacies that they are filled. When one of the pharmacists said activities, he contacted police, who arrived at the house and Payton discussed the situation.
Perlman also detail the use of Darvon pain Payton during his playing days and how it is equipped RV with nitrous oxide for use during training camp.
After Payton's career ended, he battled depression and suicide is often discussed with friends. Two no relationship contributed to his malaise. Perlman describes how the ex-wife and girlfriend both Payton attended his induction ceremony hall of fame - "they were like ships passing in the night," Payton said assistant - and made a triumphant one weekend of the worst life in Payton.
As a recent autobiography, Andre Agassi, in which he detailed his previously unknown drug, "Sweetness" will be most remembered for salacious stories revealed within. They will dominate the discussions over the next few days and brighter fuzzy stories included in the book: How cancer Payton happy boy went to the flight or those moments when he was playing ball with the children before they sign their football. Drug use and the case is making some forget about how graceful Payton was on the field and how hard he was when facing a terminal illness, and as he grew up in Mississippi alone and reassured racial tensions there with his heroics on the field.
As "Sweetness" shows our heroes are always more complicated than we know.
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