Nice article on Mathieu...

To the OP - thanks for posting. I can't help but smile every time I see Tyrann's highlights. Just a phenomenal football player.

the critics. God damn great tiger.

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Tigerlee

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Seriously, you just suck balls. Big, veiny, engorged balls.

FU
You people are worse than 12 yr old girls at a boy band concert.

It's pathetic.

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FU

It's pathetic.

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What is with your schtick man? You're never not a huge penis.

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Seriously, you just suck balls. Big, veiny, engorged balls.

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This was almost poetry.

Fantastic article. Hopefully, he has stopped falling. I do think he found the perfect landing spot, with his mentor Peterson.

i really look forward to the day he comes back to tiger stadium or is involved with the spring game with the other former tiger greats.

'a fluke that kept happening' - what a great way to describe TM7.

I hadn't read this before. It's truly a fluke that he is as well adjusted as he is. he could've gone a bad way really damn easy.

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I had a long interview with Tyrann Mathieu last winter that resulted in this story. It was the most emotionally draining interview I've ever done. At the time, I wished he'd stop talking because what he said was so painful.

Later, I realized it wasn't that I wished he'd stop talking, but that I wished what he said wasn't true. He had enough pain for 2 lives. Everybody loves a story about an athlete who has fallen & gotten up. But it was obvious then and evident now that Mathieu was still falling. He desperately wanted someone to trust but was surrounded by people who didn't deserve to be trusted. He didn't know how to trust, anyway. I concluded the root of Tyrann Mathieu's pain is he doesn't believe anybody loves him unconditionally. Not his mom, not his dad. Nobody. What broke my heart -- what made me have to sit there and catch my breath after the interview -- is the possibility he was right.

Mathieu was so old by the time he started to call someone mom and dad that he remembers feeling awkward using those words. I wanted to cry. Nobody should remember starting to say mom and dad or wonder if they should call people that or feel like they're experimenting.

Can you imagine thinking or saying this? "I know if I have a child, I’ll be there for them, no matter what." That's Mathieu. What has happened to a kid that he has to say that out loud? It was almost like he had to learn that.

Mathieu on two Mathieus: "There was one who did the right thing, who was loving. There was the one who was out of sync, and didn’t believe in himself."

I read in SI that Mathieu is going to be a dad. I hope that he sees in that baby's eyes some measure of what he's missing.

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Not two years after.

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not a whole lot of reasons to google his name now though amirite?

Awesome article - thank you for posting it! It should be listed as a topic of interest IMO.

Wouldn't know.
Don't care... But hey let's focus on a selfish player who put himself over his team, school and coaches.

Two years after the fact.

Yeah!