re: Schefter:Sam Montgomery told assistant coaches he was Sonic the Hedgehog

I respect and understand what he's saying here.

Maybe Adam Schefter is being a douche..

But the way he presented it...

Sam was just saying he was "Sonic" without the perspective.

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Family also plays a role in Montgomery's Sonic fascination. It's the game he used to play with his now-deceased brother, John Darrel Adams, who was six years older than Montgomery. He was a bouncer at a club in Columbia, S.C., when an angry bar patron shot him to death shortly before Sam came to LSU.

The two would play the Sonic game for hours, and Montgomery said he learned his aggressive style on the football field from his brother. He also thinks of him constantly on the field, especially when he feels his stamina ebbing.

"I do it to show him respect," Montgomery said. "He was a powerful inspiration to me.

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Look what happened to Sam Montgomery with the Texans is pretty bad and self inflicted. So feeling sorry for him is not the way to go.

That being said he is an LSU Tiger and he did bleed for us on the field. Could he have tried harder at times, well from his own admission yes he could have. And I realize he was realizing something that most people can only dream about and that is playing in the NFL.

But live a day in his shoes before you start roasting the guy. He has made his bed and he is going to have to lay in it now. For him to play in the NFL it just got exponentially more difficult as if it weren't difficult already. But obviously the "Sonic" name means something more than football and it isn't something out of bravado that he named himself. It has deep family meaning to him from his brother's death so leave him the frick alone on this board when it comes to that.

Is there not any subject matter that some of you assholes will not cross because you can sit behind a computer screen and say things like a big pussy knowing you will never face anyone in person and say them. You want to jump on him because of the weed, that is fair game. But the Sonic name have a little class, leave it alone.

Remember the guy left his home in South Carolina to come play for our beloved LSU Tigers. He had no affiliation of state pride that made him come, he did that on his own. So give the man some slack lay off the insults and harsh words when something has a deep family meaning. That kind of crap should be off limits here.

And if you can't do that or think it is all fair game, personally I for one think you are a big pussy because you would never say that shite to his face.