Dad will get to watch Peterson play

 
By Scott Wright
Published: October 10, 2006

NORMAN — Adrian Peterson ’s phone rang one night last week.

It was his father, Nelson, who last Thursday was released from an Oklahoma City halfway house.

“He was kind of giggling a little bit,” said Adrian, Oklahoma ’s 21-year-old star running back. “I said, ‘What’s so funny?’ He said, ‘I’m driving, and it’s nighttime.’ So it’s just the little things that he would take...


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