Ex-New England Patriots fullback Patrick Pass ‘assaulted 82-year-old man at gym in argument over equipment,’ cops say
Police say former New England Patriots fullback Patrick Pass attacked an 82-year-old man at a Rhode Island gym last month. He was arrested Wednesday.
The 46-year-old three-time Super Bowl champion was at the Planet Fitness center in North Providence on Aug. 28 when he and the victim got into an argument over exercise equipment, according to police.
Pass is accused of pushing the 80-year-old to the ground, injuring the man’s lower back.
He is charged with assaulting a 60-year-old man, causing bodily harm and mischief. Pass has since been released on a $10,000 personal injury bond. The Georgia native is due back in court in December.
Pass has struggled with health issues since leaving the NFL in 2009.
Former New England Patriots fullback Patrick Pass attacked an 82-year-old man, police say
Pass has been battling health issues and seeing neurologists since his NFL career ended
Patrick Pass and his wife Monique are seen before Tom Brady was honored in Foxborough
In 2020, his wife posted photos of him online, showing Pass stretched out on the bathroom floor. Other photos show him incapacitated in a hospital bed.
“I need people to see life after the NFL,” Monique Pass wrote online. “This was a month ago, my husband has been suffering from severe migraines and dizziness from his career. My mother called me to tell me she found my husband passed out in her basement bathroom.”
In June 2020, Monique posted a video of her husband walking with a noticeable limp. In another post from March of that year, she showed Pass being assessed by “top neurologist Dr. Mr. Norman Gordon.”
“My husband has been unwell lately,” she wrote. “I need prayers.”
Pass played for seven years, mainly with the Patriots.
After his career, Monique became an outspoken advocate for benefits for retired NFL players, saying her husband relies on them to survive financially.
Pass, a football and baseball star at Tucker High School in Georgia, attended the University of Georgia before being selected by the Patriots in the seventh round of the 2000 NFL Draft, one round after the team selected a lowly rated quarterback from Michigan named Tom Brady.