Vikings running back Adrian Peterson has been showered with countless awards and accolades since coming back from a torn ACL to win the MVP award and top 2,000 yards last year.. He may add yet another honor if, as expected, he is named the top player in NFL Network's "Top 100Players of 2013" on Thursday night. But perhaps his favorite compliment last season came from a competitor who had some doubts about how exactly Peterson had accomplished the miracle comback. "Whatever you were juicing on, let me know. I need it," an unnamed Detroit Lions linebacker told Peterson according to Pete Prisco of CBS Sports. "Man, it's a lot of prayer. The juice of God," Peterson responded. While the Lions player may have been partly joking, the same player told Peterson during the teams' rematch that the comment had touched him. "It was like turning a negative into a positive," Peterson said. "To be honest with you, it makes me feel good when people say little stuff like that, and I'm sure it happens all the time. I guess I am performing that well that people think I'm juicing, that I am taking something. That really shows me how much God has blessed me to be able to come back and play the way I played. To me, it's a compliment (the PED talk). I've always been an honest person. I never cheated the system. I am big on taking advantage of my natural abilities and applying work ethic to it to be able to climb the highest level. People make that decision to do that (PEDS), but I'm not that individual. I feel like I'd be cheating myself. And things I've accomplished would be void. That's not what I am about." Fans grow weary and jaded in light of the multiple drug scandals and misbehavior in professional sports and are particularly disheartened today in light of the Aaron Hernandez saga. We need players like Adrian Peterson to believe in. Source: The Redzone
eh, i still don't believe you a.p. regardless, most of the other players in the league had the same advantages and were taking similar p.e.d's so i still give you credit. you had a helluva season
normally id agree with you but i think he might just be a freak of nature, dating back to high school he was a grown man among boys. Andrews said his ligaments were more like performing surgery on a newborn than it was a pro athlete who trained, runs, cuts and pushes their knees to the limit as a career
