It's very sad indeed. It has hit me harder than I would have thought; suicide is always a tough way for someone you love to go.
It's very chilling to see someone that seems happy take their own life, and by accounts from interviews that seems to be the case. I can only hope that his family can eventually gain solace with the tough ending their loved one had.
To add an important point: I hope the NFL brain center is able to study his brain to check to see if he had CTE. He never was recorded for a concussion, so if he does have CTE; then it'll show that a)CTE can occur even without concussions or b)his concussions were hidden. This is still very new and there could be a number of reasons he took his own life, but it's vital to see if his playing contributed to his demise.
It's a very sad day indeed for the sport, and a soul devastating one for a family.
His family has apparently decided to donate his brain to science so they could study what may have happened. Kudos to them for making a very difficult decision that could potentially help others and perhaps yield some good out of a tragedy.
I started paying attention to football and rooting for my hometown Chargers in the early 1990s. There were some pretty good years then -- the Super Bowl run of 1994-95 for example -- but there were some extremely lean years as well. The Ryan Leaf debacle of 1998 set the franchise back a number of seasons until another icon, LaDainian Tomlinson, assumed the powder blue mantle, but we always had Junior Seau. Even when the team sucked -- and the Bolts were really, really bad at times -- #55 still played with passion and generated excitement. But he was more to the city than that. He was a native son. And he was a huge presence in the community, running a very successful restaurant (named Seau's) in Mission Valley, just down the street from the stadium. He also was very active in community service, as are many athletes, but seeing Junior on the nightly newscast at a local elementary school or charity event, that huge smile flashing like a lightning bolt across his face, seemed different, more special somehow
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It's a tragic loss for the family, and a tough pill for football fans to swallow, but what concerns me most is the possibility that Seau was suffering from some head trauma-related disorder.
If that is the case, then tragedies like this could spell the end of football.
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It's very chilling to see someone that seems happy take their own life, and by accounts from interviews that seems to be the case. I can only hope that his family can eventually gain solace with the tough ending their loved one had.
To add an important point: I hope the NFL brain center is able to study his brain to check to see if he had CTE. He never was recorded for a concussion, so if he does have CTE; then it'll show that a)CTE can occur even without concussions or b)his concussions were hidden. This is still very new and there could be a number of reasons he took his own life, but it's vital to see if his playing contributed to his demise.
It's a very sad day indeed for the sport, and a soul devastating one for a family.
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If that is the case, then tragedies like this could spell the end of football.
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One wonders just what had made him so desperate to choose to end his own life :(
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