NS - Junior Seau Dead - Apparent Suicide
 

I know it belongs in the NFL section so feel free to move it, but this is hugely sad news and thought it deserved the attention.

Whoa.

Damn...

Prayers for his children.

Say what......

Unreal

The original Junior!

Damn that's sad

unfortunate

Wow thats crazy!

Also crazy is ESPN has yet to put it on there web site!! Clowns!

Sad stuff and very surreal. Today is full of bad news. This is terrible and obviously much worse. It puts things in perspective.

RIP #55

This is such terribly sad news. Very sad day indeed. My thoughts and prayers go to the Seau family.

Damn! I would hate to be that guy.

Pat Kirwan ‏ @PatKirwanCBS

Willie Roaf just told me one of his friends called Junior Seau this morning and asked him to play golf today. He said he couldn't RIP Junior

It stays here. Saw this earlier and my jaw dropped.

Very sad and unfortunate...

Sorry I posted this in the NFL folder. MOD's feel free to delete my thread.

That's chilling to the bone!

Makes what happened to us today seem so miniscule,

And you know what?

As we type, the NFL is clamoring to figure out precisely how to spin this, because if it truly was a suicide we all know why he chose to put the bullet in his chest and not his head.

enlighten me SF, my brain cells aren't firing too swuft today.

they can study the brain for the damage done from concussions and what it does long term

See, now I know what's wrong with me.

Too bad. I remember hearing them call his name Seau and thinking say ow. Good name for a defensive player.
A moment of silence..................

This is so sad. My prayers to his family.

Annoyed that ESPN waited almost an hour to report on the story because they were too busy slamming the Saints. #priorities.

It also angers me that so many people are blaming football for Junior's death. NO ONE knows why people take their own lives, and I'll bet football had nothing to do with it.

Sad, it appears he must have been dealing with some serious symptoms and just decided life was not worth living in that condition. A lot of players have died from that SB team from 94, I believe it's 9 or 10.

I'll bet it had a lot to do with it if they find CTE in the later stages. It's well documented to cause depression and dementia.

Give ESPN a break. I'm sure with a death they wanted to confirm the story, and they aren't used to confirming anything - they have no confirmation workflow to follow so I'm sure the delay is the result of them having to figure out how to actually confirm something 'on the fly'. :brood:

So So sad.....I was watching the PC with his mother......it made me cry. She's distraught...in so much pain. I feel so bad for his family. RIP Junior Seau.

TMZ had confirmed it long before ESPN mentioned anything about it. Say what you want about TMZ, but they're pretty accurate with their stories. Even if ESPN could have broken away from Bountygate for just a few seconds to say, "We have breaking news. Reports that Junior Seau is dead. Stay tuned for further updates." :rolleyes:

For a station that prides themselves as "the worldwide leader in sports," they sure pick and choose which breaking news stories to report on.

Very Sad news, RIP Junior

yeah, funny how all the recent athlete suicides leave their head intact...

Wikipedia updated before ESPN had the story...seriously...

This is shocking news. My thoughts are with Junior's family and friends. One of my favorite linebackers this side of the Dome Patrol.

A lot of players now are donating their brains to CTE research. I think we all know that in a couple of decades, the game won't look anything like what we see today just like it doesn't look like it did 50 years ago.

We'll be playing flag football in 20 years. :broccoli:

Very sad indeed.

This has been happening with hockey players, especially those who were enforcers.

Very sad.

Ok. I heard he "shot himself in the chest". And that somehow equals an "apparent suicide"?

I thought the exact same thing, but then after I read what saintfan wrote about him not wanting to harm his brain, it does make sense in a way even though it doesn't make sense.

It's not like you can't do it that way, but it certainly isn't the easiest way.

Some other former player who's name I cannot recall shot himself in the chest too. That's why I said what I said...Dave Duerson - that was his name. There are a number of videos on YouTube about the whole concussion thing. I watched a lot of it after this whole bounty thing surfaced. It's disturbing how the league essentially went against every doctor on the planted up until about 2007 when the lawsuits started coming...

"Apparent suicide" was believed before they verified that he shot himself.

It was apparent, they investigated, then confirmed it.

Comapred to the early days of football you can almost say that now. No passing, no pads, no helmets. What has trumped the precautions are size and strength. The only thing to trump size and strength is to minimize contact and that is exactly where the NFL is heading. This sounds crazy but I could see players wearing some big red push button..you press it hard enough and they light up red and a computer determines where they were stopped..I'm not kidding either, give it 20 years.

Very sorry to hear about Junior, sending prayers out to his family. Still a very sad story.

Somehow, this will be tied to BOUNTY GATE.

Alaska