Tony Peters

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Tony Peters
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Peters playing for the Redskins in Super Bowl XVII
No. 20, 23
Position: Safety / Cornerback
Personal information
Born: (1953-04-28) April 28, 1953 (age 70)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.
Height:6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight:187 lb (85 kg)
Career information
High school: Pauls Valley (OK)
College: Oklahoma
NFL draft: 1975  / Round: 4 / Pick: 82
Career history
Career highlights and awards
Career NFL statistics
Player stats at NFL.com  ·  PFR

Anthony Lemont Peters (born April 28, 1953) is an American former professional football player who was a safety for 10 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the Cleveland Browns and Washington Redskins.

Born in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, Peters played college football for the Oklahoma Sooners at the University of Oklahoma. He and his wife, Jewell, have four children. Peters' half-brother, Charles Bray, played for the Toronto Argonauts in the Canadian Football League. [1]

Peters helped the Washington Redskins win Super Bowl XVII, and earned Pro Bowl honors for the 1982 season.

On August 3, 1983, Peters was arrested by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) at the Washington Redskins' training camp in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, accused of having taken $3,000 from an undercover DEA agent in return for assisting in two cocaine deals in Northern Virginia in the summer of 1983. [1] He was one of eight men charged in a drug conspiracy to sell $115,000 worth of cocaine in the Washington area. [2] On September 2, 1983, Peters pleaded guilty to conspiracy to traffic cocaine. The same day, he was suspended indefinitely by the NFL. [3] On October 8, 1983, Peters was fined $10,000, placed on four years' probation and ordered to perform 500 hours of community work. [2] In June 1984, NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle declared that Peters was eligible to resume playing for the Redskins. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 DEA Followed a Year-Long Trail To Carlisle--and Tony Peters Paul Attner and Eve Zibart, The Washington Post (August 7, 1983) Archived August 28, 2017, at the Wayback Machine
  2. 1 2 Peters Given Probation The New York Times (October 8, 1983) Archived March 21, 2024, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ Peters pleads guilty Pamela Murphy, United Press International (September 2, 1983) Archived March 21, 2024, at archive.today
  4. ↑ NFL Surprises Redskins, OK's Peters' Return Jet (June 4, 1984) Archived March 21, 2024, at the Wayback Machine
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