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re: Junior Seau has died
Posted on 5/2/12 at 2:33 pm to lsutigersFTW
Posted on 5/2/12 at 2:33 pm to lsutigersFTW
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The reported death of Seau draws comparisons to Dave Duerson. While it's too early to know whether Seau had similar intentions, Duerson purposefully shot himself in the chest in order to preserve his head for research. The former Bears standout suffered multiple concussions while playing in the league.
From cbssports.com
Football concussions are causing former players to commit suicide left and right now. The commissioner MUST do something.
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Posted on 5/2/12 at 2:34 pm to hg
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Saints had a bounty on him
Germans
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Did he say oww?
Germans
Posted on 5/2/12 at 2:34 pm to ScoopAndScore
Get rid of helmets.
Posted on 5/2/12 at 2:35 pm to ScoopAndScore
RIP Junior.
Posted on 5/2/12 at 2:35 pm to lsutigersFTW
RIP
Posted on 5/2/12 at 2:36 pm to hendersonshands
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Get rid of helmets.
Yep. I've been saying this all along. It's the only way for players to truly protect their heads.
But that's not really what the league wants. It's all about lawsuits, and the media adds fuel to that fire.
Posted on 5/2/12 at 2:38 pm to ScoopAndScore
ESPN
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Seau is the eighth member of the 1994 Chargers, who reached the Super Bowl and lost to to the San Francisco 49ers, to die at a young age. He was predeceased by Chris Mims, David Griggs, Rodney Culver, Lewis Bush, Curtis Whitley, Shawn Lee and Doug Miller.
Posted on 5/2/12 at 2:43 pm to ScoopAndScore
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Yep. I've been saying this all along. It's the only way for players to truly protect their heads.
You could say the same thing about boxing needing to get rid of gloves. If boxing decided to get rid of gloves, boxers wouldn't sustain as much brain trauma because they wouldn't be throwing punches as hard as they can and risk breaking their hands. Get rid of helmets and it would prevent players from launching themselves headfirst into another player.
Posted on 5/2/12 at 2:43 pm to ForeverLSU02
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Seau is the eighth member of the 1994 Chargers, who reached the Super Bowl and lost to to the San Francisco 49ers, to die at a young age.
Death don't want none of this
Posted on 5/2/12 at 2:47 pm to lsutigersFTW
Meanwhile, ESPN's 1st and 10 production team is somehow trying to fit this into a Tim Tebow story for tommorrow morning.
This post was edited on 5/2/12 at 2:48 pm
Posted on 5/2/12 at 2:47 pm to Party At LSU
I have a strong hunch on why ESPN waited an extra few hours to report it: watching clips of the announcement and reading the articles, they simply say that the Chargers have announced it. I'm betting they knew the Chargers would release a statement quickly about it and didn't want to give credit to TMZ for breaking the story.
Posted on 5/2/12 at 2:55 pm to THRILLHO
He shot himself in the chest? Something's not right.
Posted on 5/2/12 at 2:57 pm to ScoopAndScore
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The commissioner MUST do something
Did anyone do a thing to stop Derrick Thomas from dying?
Posted on 5/2/12 at 3:02 pm to shuke33
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Did anyone do a thing to stop Derrick Thomas from dying?
Que? DT died from a blood clot stemming from a car wreck. Seau got acute lead poisoning because his turnip was bounced around a bunch. How are they comparable?
Posted on 5/2/12 at 3:03 pm to luckylefty
If he did commit suicide, he may have shot himself in the chest so that they could examine his brain for injuries he received in football. Dave Duerson, a Chicago Bears former player, killed himself in 2011 with a shotgun blast to the chest.
This post was edited on 5/2/12 at 3:05 pm
Posted on 5/2/12 at 3:06 pm to SaKi
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If he did commit suicide, he may have shot himself in the chest so that they could examine his brain for injuries he received in football. Dave Duerson, a Chicago Bears former player, killed himself in 2011 with a shotgun blast to the chest.
Posted on 5/2/12 at 3:08 pm to NBamaAlum
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How are they comparable?
I always heard rumors Thomas had a wreck less off the field issues.
Posted on 5/2/12 at 3:09 pm to luckylefty
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He shot himself in the chest? Something's not right.
what's not right about it?
Posted on 5/2/12 at 3:11 pm to jimithing11
Did Les say he didnt have the chest to lead as well??
Posted on 5/2/12 at 3:11 pm to shuke33
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I always heard rumors Thomas had a wreck less off the field issues.
I'm gonna read that as "reckless". Dude threw off a bunch of kids, but other than that, I've never heard anything.
With that said, your comparison is terrible. People are wanting the NFL to do something about head injuries in the league because they may be contributing to suicides....what can the league do about a car wreck?
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