he'll be missed. hurts that it had to end like that. really liked him growing up. i had a poster of him curling 100lb dumbells and when he snapped his arm playing for the Pats (looked like it didnt even bother him. one tough SOB) are a few of the great memories i'll choose to remember him by.
oh and that he played backer in a rough era. ISO, LEAD and POWER were the runs of choice and he'd have to fit on the FB coming downhill fast!!!!!!! man you had to check and make sure everything was there when you got up.
I actually just gasped out loud in front of my family when I read this....unbelievable. Unreal. He was one of my heroes at LB growing up. When someone gets to a point where they actually shoot themselves in the chest and not the head, they are in a terrible spot. My goodness I can't imagine that kind of mental torment. RIP Junior.
So selfish and so sad. Dude was a legend on the gridiron. I can only imagine what his 12 yo kid is going through right now.....
The guy was an animal, I loved watching him play and he played a long career in a sport where guys don't always last long. Reading the stories today it sounds like a gunshot wound to the chest plus he had some domestic issues in 2010, I'm wondering if this is another head trauma suicide
Whats crazy is that my sister goes to school with his niece. She said that his niece had a weird feeling before it happened, she just pulled over on the side of the road and was thinking about things. She was bawling all day during school, and she is missing her graduation ceremony to go to the funeral
Steve, I'm not sure any of us can understand what prompted it. The man played 20 years in the NFL and then college and high school. There is a very good chance he suffered from what has prompted other players to commit suicide and being a multiple concussion victim myself these stories scare the hell out of me. Please give him the benefit of the doubt until it all shakes out, I'm thinking that he suffered from brain trauma which ended up causing him to take his life.
I believe we had one of our school board members sons commit suicide within the past couple of years. The kid was like 17 years old and had recently experienced a couple of concussions playing highschool football. Two days prior to him killing himself he had a concussion while playing football. He did not have a history of depression or anything at the time of the suicide. They sent his brain in for an autopsy and discerned that he had lesions/damage on his brain from the concussions. That stuff is real. RIP Junior.
Played his heart out every game and appeared to be having the time of his life always smiling... He will be missed and it's just tragic!!!!
What you just mentioned is my greatest fear. I was hospitalized with concussions twice when I was a teen and still have two days of my life I do not remember. I snap easy and I'm not always easy to deal with. I never realize it until hours or days later, just ask my wife I know that I have had two major concussions and several that didn't require hospitalization, all before I turned 20. Every time I hear a story like this I walk away praying that I will not end like them. The reality is that the brain can only take so much trauma before it malfunctions. Boxers, hockey players and football players are proof that we need more research and better methods of identifying and treating people before they take their lives. Seau was a beast on the field and he was only a few years older than me, no sport is worth dying in your 40's let along dying.
Race, you are going to be good to go. Brains heal over time and your just a pain in the rear, well just because, just because you are like me. hahaha. My dad had a traumatic concussion in the Marine Corps when I was 7-8. He did not know who we were and they found him walking by himself on Camp Pendleton and he could not identify himself when they found him. About 2-3 years after the concussion a Lt. approached and introduced himself to my father when he was working at Headquarters Marine Corps and my dad could not remember who he was. My dad has an outstanding memory. The Lt told my father he worked directly for him for a year. To this day my dad cannot remember their relationship.
He sounded so up beat on a Dan Patrick show last week before the draft and now this!!? Senseless and meaningless a man with so much character and charisma and this?? His sport show was funny and good but suicide? I am sorry it's a total loss and cowards exit to life. some don't agree with my stance, but this man had a lot to give and to do this. I feel sorry for his family and friends may they find solace in his tragic ending. may he finally be at peace.
I'm all for finding scientific reasoning behind things, ESPECIALLY going into the medical field. But there is no amount of football that can cause a man to take his life when he has 3 kids in this world, some of which still young enough to need him... Bash me if you'd like, the guy was a man among boys even in the NFL and was my on the field idol even over Ray Lewis as a LB.....but suicide is a CHOICE taken when we would rather give up than fight through a tough situation. It is an easy out of YOUR problems that causes a LIFETIME of problems for literally everyone who cared about you. I do not, and will not sympathize for/understand suicide as a way out....I have had people I know and even people close to me commit suicide and have had to witness first hand what they left behind as a result of their actions. The pain you inflict on your loved ones is 10x that which you could possibly be feeling at the moment of death.
