As documented on SbB some time ago, former Nebraska defensive tackle Jason Peter has experienced the monumental highs and tragic lows on the athlete career spectrum. He was a college All-American and national champion, a first round NFL draft pick, but addictions to painkillers, cocaine, and heroin ruined his promising career. Not to mention brothels running out of women for him.

Excerpts of Peter’s book “Hero of the Underground” are now out, with one passage noting that life at Nebraska for him started out innocently enough.

And the girls! Oh Christ, they were like something from some cheerleader sex fantasy. Agape I watched them with their blond hair tied back, their impossibly long legs, their ice-blue and emerald-green eyes, and their dazzling, perfect teeth, I noted the way that they fell over themselves to get close to the football guys who treated them with calculated indifference, and I realized that to get onto the team at Nebraska was to get all-areas access to the best parties, the best girls, the American f—— dream.

The dream became a nightmare of drugs and hookers after Peter was injured in the NFL.

His career as the top draft pick of the Carolina Panthers didn’t work out as well, however.

Injuries, and access to painkillers — 80 oxycodone a day — gave Peter the excuse he needed to start the race to becoming as intense a junkie as he was a defensive monster on the football field.

The pills led to harder drugs such as cocaine and heroin, and Peter contemplated suicide on numerous occasions. The book sounds like an exciting and sad ride. Let’s hope Jason Peter’s next book is a lot less exciting.