Breaking: Police Respond To Junior Seau's Oceanside Home (COMFIRMED: RIP Seau)

[ilive4sports]

Re: Breaking: Police Respond To Junior Seau's Oceanside Home (COMFIRMED: RIP Seau)

Very sad day. Seau was a great player and great guy from what I know. Never would have suspected this.

[Slick Pinkham]

Re: Breaking: Police Respond To Junior Seau's Oceanside Home (COMFIRMED: RIP Seau)

I am literally getting choked up over this.

If football concussions really do contribute to incredibly sad situations like this one, we need to do EVERYTHING POSSIBLE to lessen the frequency and severity of concussions while preserving the essence of the great game we love, at the same time.

Some will say it means putting flags or skirts on people. That's crazy. Football can still be recognizable as football without people being so banged up in the head that they do this at age 43. Best helmets money can buy. Rules that are clear and consistently enforced. No more using the head as a battering ram.

So sad.

So devastating for the family and friends left behind.

So senseless.

Late in life, after my Mom had passed, my Dad (since also passed) re-married a sweet old lady who made him very happy in his later years. Her first husband had shot himself 30 years before, and her life was utterly devastated by it, forever, though when together with my Dad she was able to experience just a little bit of the happiness she though she would never have again. The whole family was messed up by that choice he made.

I hope Junior's family can some day move on.

[vapacersfan]

Re: Breaking: Police Respond To Junior Seau's Oceanside Home (COMFIRMED: RIP Seau)

Jr Seau asked in his suicide letter that his brain be researched to prevent tragic incidents from happening to NFL retirees

DO you have a link for this? I knew it was true with the other case TJ talked about, havent heard anything about a note left for this case

[Coupe]

Re: Breaking: Police Respond To Junior Seau's Oceanside Home (COMFIRMED: RIP Seau)

DO you have a link for this? I knew it was true with the other case TJ talked about, havent heard anything about a note left for this case

Was on the twitters.

[Steagles]

Re: Breaking: Police Respond To Junior Seau's Oceanside Home (COMFIRMED: RIP Seau)

I am really sad, I just came across a "Topps Legends" card I have of him (that I lost like 3 months ago) in my socks drawer today and saw that it said that he stays active in the community. I didn't think anything of it until I heard what happened today. Very ironic and chilling. Rest in peace to one of my favorite all time players, my absolute favorite as a little kid.

[DaveP63]

Re: Breaking: Police Respond To Junior Seau's Oceanside Home (COMFIRMED: RIP Seau)

Damn. I really liked him as a player. One of the few Chargers I could stand.

[Slick Pinkham]

Re: Breaking: Police Respond To Junior Seau's Oceanside Home (COMFIRMED: RIP Seau)

From friends I have in San Diego, he is an icon. For perspective, he means to them what Reggie Miller would mean to a Pacers fan from Indianapolis.

[Haywoode Workman]

Re: Breaking: Police Respond To Junior Seau's Oceanside Home (COMFIRMED: RIP Seau)

This is JUST like the former player who shot himself in the chest so his brain could be preserved. I'm sorry, but NFL, are you listening yet? Helmets are too heavy and are not helping.

Irony is thick that this happened the same day that the Saints' players received their punishments. Disgusting how many of their teammates are sticking up for them

There's people on this very board who argue against making ANY changes to the game that may infringe on its entertainment. I guess it makes you a "lowfat cream cheese eating hippie", or whatever that Fender idiot was trying to insult me with, if you try to argue just how detrimental repeated head injuries can be to a player's physical and mental health. There needs to be some MAJOR changes to the game of football. Entertainment is not worth the lives of other human beings.

[Moses]

Re: Breaking: Police Respond To Junior Seau's Oceanside Home (COMFIRMED: RIP Seau)

Given his concussion history and his duration of time spent in the NFL, this is not a shocking story but is very sad nonetheless. He was a hell of a player.

[vapacersfan]

Re: Breaking: Police Respond To Junior Seau's Oceanside Home (COMFIRMED: RIP Seau)

Wonder how much steroid use factors into this as well. If at all

Crazy how he seemed so old, but how young he really is.

[vapacersfan]

Re: Breaking: Police Respond To Junior Seau's Oceanside Home (COMFIRMED: RIP Seau)

There's people on this very board who argue against making ANY changes to the game that may infringe on its entertainment. I guess it makes you a "lowfat cream cheese eating hippie", or whatever that Fender idiot was trying to insult me with, if you try to argue just how detrimental repeated head injuries can be to a player's physical and mental health. There needs to be some MAJOR changes to the game of football. Entertainment is not worth the lives of other human beings.

I am guilty of it as well. Of course, so is the NFL itself with its whole proposal to extend the season to 18 games.

As I said above, athletes beat themselves up from a young age for the fame and hope of making it big. I wonder how much steroids had to play, if anything, in this case. Also he was divorced, but again its hard to say what/how much effects a person

Not sure who or what "Fender" is, but I am as guilty as the next guy in hating how watered down the league has become. That said, as TJ said man this is bad news for the NFL. The same day the Saints stuff gets released this happens. I smell a lot of lawsuits from former players, as if the NFL didnt have plenty already.

I did not watch the SC PC, but just reading about it was tough. Seau's mom saying a parent should never have to bury their son.

[Heisenberg]

Re: Breaking: Police Respond To Junior Seau's Oceanside Home (COMFIRMED: RIP Seau)

There was NO suicide note. It's being investigated as a suicide but it's not conclusive. Though I am willing to make the leap in logic that he did shoot himself and that his concussion history had plenty to do with it.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/pR67bL-7As0

I think I got something in my eye. I'm honestly questioning if I really want to watch football anymore.

[ilive4sports]

Re: Breaking: Police Respond To Junior Seau's Oceanside Home (COMFIRMED: RIP Seau)

I still can't believe this. Seeing Marcus Wiley on ESPN... there are no words.

[jeffg-body]

Re: Breaking: Police Respond To Junior Seau's Oceanside Home (Rumor Seau is dead)

A very somber day for me. Junior Seau was one of my all-time favorite players.

[Since86]

Re: Breaking: Police Respond To Junior Seau's Oceanside Home (COMFIRMED: RIP Seau)

There's people on this very board who argue against making ANY changes to the game that may infringe on its entertainment. I guess it makes you a "lowfat cream cheese eating hippie", or whatever that Fender idiot was trying to insult me with, if you try to argue just how detrimental repeated head injuries can be to a player's physical and mental health. There needs to be some MAJOR changes to the game of football. Entertainment is not worth the lives of other human beings.

They get handsomely rewarded for putting their lives on the line. We have other professions that put themselves in a lot higher danger areas and pay them significantly less. Hell, we pay our soldiers crap compared to NFL football players.

Sorry that I don't shed a tear that they voluntarily choose to play a violent sport, knowing full well the health risks associated with it, while getting paid millions upon millions of dollars. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that using your head as a ramming rod is going to result in some adverse health risks.

If it sounds harsh, sorry, but I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for people that knowingly put themselves in danger and then complain when they get hurt.


It's a tragedy that Seau felt like he needed to take himself out, I don't wish that on anyone and I have the utmost respect for his career.