A new biography of Walter Payton Hall of Fame, the details of re-use of drugs often, extramarital affairs, and the oppressive solitude that had haunted him since his retirement from the NFL.
Sports Illustrated Jeff Pearlman spent more than two years of work on 'softness: The Life of Walter Payton enigmatic "and discovers some surprising details about Chicago Bears running back was so popular that the NFL named its man of the years after him.
The book goes on sale next week. Excerpts appear in Sports Illustrated this week. Together, part of Pearlman Payton describes the use of drugs:
The burden of loneliness and problems in marriage, not just Payton. As a player had knocked out their ills with pills and liquids that are normally provided by the Bears. Payton jumped Darvon robots during the days of play, Holmes said, "I saw him leave the locker room with bottles of painkillers and had to eat a sandwich", and his body covered with foam by dimethyl sulfoxide, a topical analgesic normally used to treat horses. Now that he had retired, self-medication only intensify. Payton normally ingested a cocktail of Tylenol and Vicodin. In an embarrassing episode in 1988, Payton visited a handful of dental clinics, complaining of severe tooth pain. He has received several orders for morphine and hit a handful of pharmacies that have been filled. When a pharmaceutical business account, she contacted the police, who arrived at the house and Payton discussed the situation.
Pearlman also details the use of the painkiller Darvon Payton in his days playing and how a trailer is equipped with nitrous oxide use during training camp.
When Payton finished his career, has dealt with depression and suicide are often confronted with friends. Two reports did not affect his discomfort. Pearlman's ex-wife described Payton and his girlfriend attended the ceremony in the Hall of Fame - "were like ships passing in the night," Payton said assistant - and made a triumphant weekend, the worst Payton life.
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As the last hand-washing Andre Agassi, in which detailed his drug hitherto unknown, "sweetness" is remembered as the obscene stories found inside. Dominate the conversation the next day and the darkness of the brightest stories of the book: How happy young Payton Cancer installed on the flight or when a child was to play the ball first to sign his football. Drug problems and that you forget what it was fun to Payton on the field, and how strong he was in contact with the terminal phase of illness, and how you grew up in segregated Mississippi and ethnic tensions, calmed his heroism in the field.
In "Sweetness" shows, our heroes are always more complex than we know.