by Tony Renteria

SANTA CLARA–Former New England Patriot wide receiver Aaron Hernandez’ fiancée testified on Friday that she found a gun in the kitchen drawer in Hernandez’ house just days before the June 17, 2013 murder of Hernandez associate Lloyd Oldin. Hernandez fiancee Shayanna Jenkins who has been to court at various but made her first appearance in court on Friday since March 6th said she made the discovery when going through the kitchen drawers looking for utensils.

You have to be in really bad trouble when your wife or your fiancée testifies against you in exchange for immunity. There has to be something that’s there. That has to be the smoking gun (no pun) and it’s such a waste of a talented football player to end yuur career to go to jail for murder. Hernandez could not separate his past from being a professional athlete. The court reconvenes on Monday.

Adrian Peterson starts to shop for new team: Peterson said that he and his agent are shopping around for another team other than the Minnesota Vikings. The Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer said that he expects Peterson to return. This is coming off of last season’s suspension of Peterson for spanking his son with a switch, Peterson was arrested and investigated for child abuse last season.

Peterson said this is the way he was raised and disciplining his child and this is the way he wants to raise his child. He could ask the Vikings “who are you as my employer to ask how I handle my family?” Sometimes when your in the limelight of the NFL your private life gets involved in your public life. At one point Peterson was ordered by the courts to stay away from his son. Peterson says he’s ready to get back to football after such a turmoil year.

49ers fans raising money to get Yorks out: So far San Francisco 49ers fans have raised some two thousand dollars in a bid to get a fund going to get 49ers owner Jed York and his family out from under the 49ers the money eventually will be used to try and buy the team from the Yorks. The fans want what the Green Bay Packers have and that is a fan owned organization. The fans have expressed their fed up with the Yorks over the handling of former head coach Jim Harbaugh’s leaving and the rest of the key players jumping ship.

If I was a 49ers fan after going through everything to get the new stadium, having to pay crazy ticket prices, having to endure the long lines outside the stadium before the games you want to see them take a step forward from where they were. It’s tough to deal with such a high at one point with playoffs and a Super Bowl and keep that going but the 49ers are going so far down and so fast it’s like an elevator going from the top floor to the bottom floor and I don’t see how they will easily recover this season from this bad off season and I don’t really blame the fans for raising these funds.

How will former 49er Ray McDonald work out in Chicago: McDonald who faced domestic violence allegations and sexual assault allegations and signed with the Bears last week. McDonald’s situation is something that carried through with everything that was going on with the NFL last season. It was such a bad season when it came to domestic violence and sexual abuse.

Its tough to say if the 49ers did the right thing letting McDonald go and the 49ers need to start distancing themselves from that type of character on their squad. This is something that your hearing about all the time in the NFL especially during the 2014-15 season. Did the Bears do the right thing? Players always seems to find a place to play in the NFL by what kind of character you are.

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