Junior Seau dead.
 

hearing multiple reports

RT @Deadspin: TMZ reports that Junior Seau has been found dead inside his home: Report: Former NFL Linebacker Junior Seau Found Dead

Only seeing TMZ reporting it, but WTF?!

From NFL offseason thread.

Junior Seau Dead -- Cops Suspect Suicide | TMZ.com

RIP as long as he didn't take someone else with him or something.

I really hope that he didn't shoot himself in the head, as I wonder how fucked up his brain really is/was.

Suicide would match with accidently driving off a cliff last year.

I imagine many head injuries. And frankly, I don't see how you perform at the level he did for as long as he did without some roids/HGH.

I'm not looking to crap on the guy. Just speculating that combo could lead to this tragic end.

I was thinking the same thing, but didn't think I could say it in a good way. :(

Yeah, always thought he was on the stuff. Towards the end of his career he seemed like a good candidate for a 5150 breakdown. Sad.

Yep, multiple reports that he was found dead in his home, including Wikipedia. :(

dola

reports are that it was a suicide

ugh, this is not what any football fan wants to hear. What a tragedy.

RIP Junior. One of the best linebackers I've had the pleasure of watching.

Ummmm...

Holy Shit, I don't even want to believe this......One of the last guys you would think of doing this. :(

RIP Junior....

RIP Junior.

One of the best linebackers of my generation.

Still nothing on NFL Network.

Yeah, I am not seeing it on mainstream media yet, NFL Network, ESPN, CNN, etc.

No mentions on ESPN Radio yet.

Really, he tried to do this two years ago.

ESPN hasn't found a way to take credit for reporting it yet. Once they figure that out, they will be all over it.

Just like the John Edwards story they can't stand being "out-scooped" by what they consider to be inferior media so instead they will act like it didn't happen.

EDIT: Chief Rum said it even better. Until they make up a way that they "broke" the story.

I'm just surprised that it hasn't been mentioned on the radio. Nothing. Even the hourly update didn't mention anything.

How can SVP not mention it and talk about the other stuff instead?

Is this better?

Reports: Junior Seau commits suicide at home - NFL News | FOX Sports on MSN

I think there's probably a different standard for some outlets when it comes to reporting deaths. You like to be sure. The San Diego news websites just say that there's a bunch of police around Seau's house and that a neighbor told them that the police told him that Seau shot himself. That's what it is, one neighbor, that might not be enough for the mainstream outlets. I'm sure in 10 minutes it will be everywhere.

Edit: TMZ claims "multiple law enforcement sources", which is interesting, as apparently when the big news go down, the cops with loose lips call up TMZ (or they have pre-existing relationships with TMZ).

Nor should it be. I read "reports" yesterday that Tyler Perry had died in his studios fire. It was likely rooted in one guy nearby saying hed heard it was possible that Tyler Perry was inside.

I hadn't read about that other incident until now, just going by what I knew at the time. He always seemed like an upbeat guy in interviews and such.

TMZ saying gunshot to the chest.

And, yeah, I hope that they are allowed to study his brain.

tmz is never wrong on this stuff. rip.

I'm sure Chris Nowitzki has already been in touch with the family. And I don't mean that in a negative way, it's kind of a necessary level of haste when you're dealing with human organs. And they're usually glad to facilitate the research when he calls, from what I've read.

He's the 8th memeber of the 1994 Chargers to die before the age of 45.

East coast bias.

I'll have to verify with WIKIPEDIA and get back to you.

Let me see if Altavista has any of this breaking news.

can't find a link in my hotmail account.

Sportsdigs has not reported this yet last month.

SPORTSDIGS BLAH BLAH BLAH

DAMMIT SUICANE

Some guy on usenet said it was true too.

Check your spam folder, hotmail thinks everything is spam.

For what it is worth, we will look back on today as the day pro-football began a long,slow death spiral that will result in the death of the NFL in particular, and football in general.

As has been said many times by people smarter than I, the massive brain-rattling injuries are not the issue, it's the repetitive, concussive, smaller blows to the head that players endure 20-50 times a game that causes the long term brain damage. First, pee-wee leagues and high-schools will cease to exist after the insurance costs get prohibitively high. Once high-school football is gone, the college game will disappear due to the same insurance reasons plus the lack of the high-school talent pipeline. After that, the NFL goes away, or at least becomes this century's boxing or horse racing.

gunshot would to the chest - he knowingly preserved his brain

Football does this to people. The consistent head trauma, even in high school players, screws with the human brain. I am not trying to make a simplistic "football = suicide" argument here, but more raise the point as to how long we're ok with what is basically gladiatorial combat for our age.

Wow.......this is just tragic. Ever since he drove off the cliff a while back, I was worried about his state of mind. Never knew what was driving him to think this way. Damn....

We also had the 2-3 hockey players last year that committed suicide as well. Very troubling.

As crazy as this sounds, I could see something like this happening. As much crap as Goddell takes for trying to clean up the game, he might just be doing what is necessary to maintain the game.

I get that Wiki isn't the most useful source most of the time, but this news is all over the place right now. I was just pointing out one particular location.

...and who is the person who rushes to wikipedia seconds after any celebrity death to update their page??

I don't necessarily agree with this becoming the defining moment of brain trauma causing the end of pro football. But I agree with the sentiment. I wonder what kind of data might be found if you were able to correlate former HS football players with prison inmates. Especially those who played concussion prone positions like DB, LB, RB and (option)QB.

I won't have a son, but if I did, I would only want him playing one of the line positions.