Adrian Cooper, Jr. (born April 27, 1968 in Denver, Colorado) is a former professional American football tight end in the National Football League. He played six seasons for the Pittsburgh Steelers (1991–1993), the Minnesota Vikings (1994–1995), and the San Francisco 49ers (1996).
Adrian Cooper was ordered to prison in 2006 for cheating clients out of almost $1 million while he was a stockbroker. He was sentenced to serve six years and three months after pleading guilty to securities fraud and money laundering. He is currently located at the Federal Prison in El Reno, Oklahoma.
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“My beautiful, my own
My only Venice—this is breath! Thy breeze
Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face!
Thy very winds feel native to my veins,
And cool them into calmness!”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)