A new book on Walter Payton, the Hall of legendary Chicago Bears fame, reveals a controversial side, deprived of running back and has been criticized by his family.
In "Sweetness: The Walter Payton's enigmatic life," the life of Payton Jeff Pearlman chronicles his childhood in Mississippi and the battle with a rare liver disease and death from cancer of the bile ducts in the year 1999.
Excerpts from Sports Illustrated tales relate Payton extramarital affairs, including a scene in Canton, Ohio, when Payton took his wife and his girlfriend to its Hall of Fame. Payton, Pearlman writes in detail, battled depression and was addicted to painkillers during his playing career and beyond.




