KC Chiefs' Player Commits Murder-Suicide

[punch it in]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

I think some of you (one of you) are forgetting that many of the information we know have the Chiefs didn't necessarily have on Sunday morning when they decided to hang his jersey in his locker room.

And again, there was no public moment of silence, no vigil for Belcher, nothing like that

I think some of you (one of you) think it's way too easy to spend hours a day with someone, maybe know that he's having problems with his baby mama (but let's not kid ourselves how many pro athletes don't) and then one day you find that he killed himself and his girlfriend/baby mama...and you expect his teammates to just wipe every memory they have of him clean. Absurd.

Incredibly arrogant for some of you (one of you) to think it's not a full spectrum of emotions his teammates are going through-why did he do this? what could I have done? why didn't he come to us first? how well do I know everyone else in this locker room? did the violence of the game make him do this? could this happen to me?-and so on

Well Tom Jackson and one of me , and others in this thread, never said that the teammates dont have a rite to be shocked and saddened by what occured. Also if you read this last couple pages it has morphed into whether i have the rite as an outsider to say what belcher did is wrong? If im arrogant for saying it is than so be it. If the fact of the matter is that the organization and team was not aware if the murder when they hung up his jersey than i personally have no problem with it. However when the information was there at gametime and they did have the facts they should have taken the jersey down.