Junior Seau Confirmed Dead

That's a great article!

I see this kind of stuff all the time around me. And it still amazes me. When I was 30 my career was really only just beginning. For most athletes their careers are pretty much over at 30. What they've worked all their lives for is done.

Everyone dreams of retiring early. Reality is that it's not all that much fun.

I turned on the sports station briefly and they said Junior Seau coming up,I thought they were going to talk to him.I was shocked to come here and see he took his own life.Very sad news

I see this kind of stuff all the time around me. And it still amazes me. When I was 30 my career was really only just beginning. For most athletes their careers are pretty much over at 30. What they've worked all their lives for is done.

Everyone dreams of retiring early. Reality is that it's not all that much fun.

Also when you consider that athletes have competed at a high level on nearly a daily basis since most of them were teenagers it's a huge adjustment to not having a goal or opponent and it's difficult to deal with.

Sad. I wish more people would talk about suicide like they do in the military. We get briefs on this almost monthly. It's a real problem in America. Suicide is a permanant solution, to a temporary problem.

Exactly what Trevor Pryce alluded to recently

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/sports/football/jets-trevor-pryce-is-retired-and-getting-tired-of-it.html
R.I.P. Junior ,,,,,, very sad . Loved watching him play at USC and the NFL , very passionate player . Nice article , thanks for posting it SS .

I literally logged in and said, "What!?!" Man. What a loss. RIP.

just awful news. the second i heard he was dead i knew it was suicide. i had a feeling thats what really happened when he "feel asleep at the wheel" a year or so ago. it will be interesting to find out if a note was left, or if he had talked to anyone before taking his life. one of the all time greats, rip.

anyone else remember his nike commercial with dennis hopper? i used to love it

Nike commercial featuring Stanley talk about Junior Seau - YouTube

From a current saints player Eric olsen

“Wow this is a tough one,” Olsen wrote on his Twitter account when he heard about Seau’s death. “When I was a frosh in HS Junior Seau worked the Jay Fiedler Football camp and at the end of one of the days he challenged anyone to a 1-on-1. Being one of the ‘big’ kids, I was volunteered by my buddies and went up in front of the whole camp to face this monster of a man. Shaking in my cleats, he gave me a wink before a coach gave the cadence. He let me pancake him. And he sold it too. I can’t even tell you how good I felt at that moment; it changed me forever. The whole camp cheered for me, a chubby kid that didn’t know if he even liked football. From then on I was addicted. All thanks to this 10-time all-pro that felt like makIng
some snot-nosed kid’s day. Doesn’t seem like much but it meant a lot to me. Sorry for the essay just had to share. RIP Junior I’ll never forget what you did for me.”

From a current saints player Eric olsen

“Wow this is a tough one,” Olsen wrote on his Twitter account when he heard about Seau’s death. “When I was a frosh in HS Junior Seau worked the Jay Fiedler Football camp and at the end of one of the days he challenged anyone to a 1-on-1. Being one of the ‘big’ kids, I was volunteered by my buddies and went up in front of the whole camp to face this monster of a man. Shaking in my cleats, he gave me a wink before a coach gave the cadence. He let me pancake him. And he sold it too. I can’t even tell you how good I felt at that moment; it changed me forever. The whole camp cheered for me, a chubby kid that didn’t know if he even liked football. From then on I was addicted. All thanks to this 10-time all-pro that felt like makIng
some snot-nosed kid’s day. Doesn’t seem like much but it meant a lot to me. Sorry for the essay just had to share. RIP Junior I’ll never forget what you did for me.”

good story

Depression whether through football injuries or bad relationships is a terrible thing. RIP Junior a favorite player of mine, I hope you find piece in the afterlife.