July 9th, 2008 
Matt Loede 
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Site Editor Matt Loede is joined in this latest Gridiron Gabbin by former first-round pick and now author Jason Peter. The former first-round pick talks about his new book: Hero of the Underground: A Memoir. The book talks about Peter’s addiction to painkillers and drugs that ruined his NFL career. Here is a quick tidbit from the Book:
“When you swallow eighty Vicodin, twenty sleeping pills, drink a bottle of vodka, and still survive, a certain sense of invulnerability stays with you. When you continually use drugs with the kind of reckless determination that I did, the limit to how much heroin or crack you can ingest is not defined in dollar amounts but in the amounts your body can withstand without experiencing a seizure or respiratory failure … when you still wake up to see the same dirty sky over you as the night before, you start to think that instead of dying, maybe your punishment is to live — to be stuck in this purgatory of self-abuse and misery for an eternity.”
Listen to Jason talk about overcoming his addiction as well as his career as a member of the media. Click below to hear this special edition of Gridion Gabbin w/ Matt Loede and Jason Peter.
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