Former New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman discussed his 2020 arrest for sliding on the hood of a car in Beverly Hills, Calif., during a recent podcast appearance.
“You guys remember I got arrested for hood sliding on a car?” Edelman told the “No Chill” podcast. His comments were previously reported by Boston.com.
Edelman said he and former teammate Danny Amendola were at a Mexican restaurant in Beverly Hills and wound up staying there for an extended period.
“So there was a robbery,” Edelman said. “There was a robbery at some, we were at Frida in Beverly Hills, watching some football. We got eliminated [from postseason play] early that year. And they made us stay in the restaurant.”
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While the two pass catchers were stuck, they spotted another Boston sports legend: former Celtics great Paul Pierce.
“So we were there for like three and a half hours and I see Paul,” Edelman told the program. “And we just started taking down a bunch of tequila.”
While they crushed the liquor, they also poked fun at the police, he said.
“We were talking about Starsky and Hutch because there were a bunch of cops that weren’t letting anyone out,” he said. “And as soon as they let us out, we were walking by a parking garage and a car rolled up.”
That, Edelman said, is when he did something counterintuitive, post-tequila binge.
“And you know, me being an idiot, I did like a little hood slide on it,” Edelman said. “Didn’t really get a good hood slide. It was a little precipitation in the air and I was wearing jeans,” which caused him to get “stuck.”
“If I would have hood-slid, I think it would have been good,” Edelman said.
Instead like a shanked field goal, it was no good.
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“The guy gets out of the car, waves down a cop,” Edelman said. “Cops come up and [hit] me up, I’m like, ‘yo.’ ... For a hood slide ... Thanks Paul.”
At the time of the arrest, the Globe reported that the vehicle was damaged during the incident.
Edelman was arrested and cited with misdemeanor vandalism, police said at the time.
He was placed in handcuffs and put into a police cruiser but was later released with the citation, police said at the time. Edelman was not taken to the police station for booking, police said.
Earlier in the evening, Edelman appeared in an Instagram photo posted by Pierce, which showed Edelman, Pierce, and Amendola at the restaurant.
In a statement to the Globe at the time, restaurant spokesman David Thompson said that “Julian Edelman was a guest at Cantina Frida [Saturday] night with some friends. They were polite and friendly.”
Material from prior Globe stories was used in this report.
Travis Andersen can be reached at travis.andersen@globe.com.