GILBERT, Ariz. - Former NFL quarterback Donovan McNabb had a blood-alcohol level that was more than twice the legal limit when he was arrested on suspicion of DUI in Arizona last month, police said Tuesday.
Police in the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert said lab tests show McNabb's blood-alcohol level was 0.17 percent. Arizona's legal limit is 0.08, and anything 0.15 or higher qualifies as extreme DUI.
A message left at a phone number listed for the 38-year-old McNabb was not immediately returned.
It was the second DUI arrest for McNabb in 18 months. He served a day in jail after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor DUI charge resulting from a Dec. 15, 2013, arrest in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community east of Phoenix.
He also was ordered to pay a fine of nearly $1,500 and enter an outpatient treatment program in Scottsdale.
In the latest incident, police said McNabb's vehicle rear-ended one driven by the wife of a Gila River tribal police officer. A responding officer said McNabb's eyes were "very bloodshot and his speech was slurred," according to the arrest report.
In police video of the late-night arrest June 28, McNabb told an officer he had just left a sports bar and was driving home. He went on to say he hadn't been drinking and that he was sick.
"Well first of all, I got a cold. So, I've been on cough medicine," McNabb said.
Asked if he had any recent head injuries, McNabb said, "Listen, I played football."
McNabb played 13 years in the NFL.