Vikings' Adrian Peterson gets 109 mph speeding ticket

[TTyMiller]

MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson was cited for speeding over the weekend after police clocked him driving 109 mph on a highway in suburban Minneapolis.

Edina police spokeswoman Molly Anderson says Peterson was pulled over just before 8:30 p.m. Saturday.

Peterson was driving his BMW on a state highway in a 55-mph zone. Anderson says he was given a citation and allowed to drive away. She called it a "very routine" traffic stop.

Peterson tells The Associated Press he didn't realize how fast he was going. He said he "got a little speeding ticket" and said he planned to be more careful.

The stop happened the night before Peterson ran for 85 yards and a touchdown in a 36-10 victory over Chicago. He also fumbled twice.

They could have at least said what kind of Bimmer it was.

Once a long long time ago I had a speeding ticket and the cop said blah blah blah in his BMW and the judge said well what kind of BMW; the cop fumbling through his notes said, an M3; the judge said guilty. True story I must have been speeding because of the make of BMW.

[72Golf]

Yes, and I was flashing my lights and beeping the horn like hell in my '02 to get him to pull over so I could get by. Dumb ba#tard got pulled over instead of me! Ha!!