[Glipseagrilia]

I posted this in the NFL thread and the dead pool thread over an hour ago.

[sykanaxer]

Congratulations.

I know. I posted about it before any media outlets.

[BashBeissedat]

I know. I posted about it before any media outlets.

I wouldn't have pegged you as a fan of TMZ.

[Stetbrate]

Well, to be fair, he was trying to expand it beyond sports, considering there is a forum for sports stuff.

[tsaaapla]

Yeah, never heard of the dude.

We should've had a thread on the world champion 26 year old swimmer who died of a heart attack jerking off in the shower. Much more newsworthy.

[yxn2dC07]

Something tells me this place won't be long for the world now though you never know.

http://www.seau.com/

The one thing I'll give them is they did have a ****ing GIANT projection screen to watch the game on.

I'm wondering how many non-Americans even know who this guy is? I don't think I've heard the name before today.

If you weren't a patriots or chargers fan (or just a die hard football fan in general) then you likely never heard of him.

[vqIo7X2U]

Something tells me this place won't be long for the world now though you never know.

http://www.seau.com/

The one thing I'll give them is they did have a ****ing GIANT projection screen to watch the game on.



If you weren't a patriots or chargers fan (or just a die hard football fan in general) then you likely never heard of him.

He only played for 20 years. Even the most casual fan probably is familiar with the name.
As far as non-Americans, so what? Canada probably has a lot more knowledge of moose crap, but I don't.

[kentbrookug]

Damn. Bad news all around.

[AccusaJalsBub]

All.

[Izzy]

His restaurant/sports bar isn't even a very good place to go catch a game because the place is just giant with the acoustics of an old warehouse so you're more likely to hear the drunk group next to you being loud than you are to hear what's going on in the game. Worse, the best tables (right in front of the screen) are VIP only so unless you feel like paying $18 for a rather bland subpar burger with crappy pre-cut frozen fries which they reheated than you get stuffed into the far corner. It's no wonder none of the locals go there and instead they survive off of swindling visiting sports fans and tourists.

Before they did the remodel to add in the "VIP area" they just had a bunch of tables spread out across the floor in a geometric pattern so it had all the charm of a college cafeteria but at least you could actually get a seat in front of the screen back then (though you still couldn't hear ****).

[!!Aaroncheg]

Hmm, he killed himself so it's obvious he didn't care what other people think least of all his family or fans.

[bellson]

Hmm, he killed himself so it's obvious he didn't care what other people think least of all his family or fans.

Let's see what the autopsy says about chronic traumatic encephalopathy from his playing days. He's the second retired NFL player to commit suicide in the past two weeks and there's a growing litany of former players who have committed suicide or died recklessly and autopsy results showed they suffered severe neurological damage (Dave Duerson, Chris Henry, Justin Strzelczyk, Andre Waters, etc. etc.)

Junior, Ray Easterling, and Dave Duerson all committed suicide by shooting themselves in the chest. Duerson even left a suicide note asking for his brain to be examined.

[Lypepuddyu]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/junio...ection=1206833

His mother is understandably upset at the press conference.

[heilyprollecyspor]

Good question.

[unapelosina]

Let's not forget that in 2010, Junior Seau ran his SUV over a cliff in a suspected suicide attempt but survived.

[attishina]

Don't these people know you can get an MRI while still alive?

Duerson didn't kill himself so that his brain could be analyzed. He presumably killed himself because of the depression and other problems that developed from the neurological damage. But Duerson had enough presence of mind to realize that his brain needed to be preserved to demonstrate the effects of neurological damage from playing football.

I don't know if Easterling and Seau had something similar in mind but it is telling that they also chose to end their lives with a gunshot to the chest, which is not the most obvious way to kill yourself with a gun.

[artenotreah]

NFL players who deal with concussion-induced neurological problems and want to preserve their brains for the autopsy.

It's possible Seau was doing what Dave Duerson did last year:

This...

RIP Junior Seau

I saw a really moving article about Duerson ending his life and the setting up of an NFL brain bank last year. It is scary to think that any American football player out there could be carrying a ticking timebomb in their heads...

I'm a non American and I even know who Doug Flutie is...

[gernica]

I'm in the amateur business of knowing who "celebrities" are and I contend this guy just didn't try hard enough. He had to off himself to get noticed.

One of the best to play his position and by all accounts a good man.

As an aside, I have one of his former teammates on my List at 18.

[casinochniks]

Watching his Mother yesterday was heartbreaking.