Junior Seau, 1969-2012

[Raefire]

http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/oceanside/exclusive-football-great-junior-seau-dead-in-suicide-source-says/article_bccb943a-ba7e-56f3-8756-13d9c81a8258.html

Former pro football great and Oceanside sports legend Junior Seau has committed suicide,  found at his beachfront home with a gunshot wound to the chest, according to multiple sources.

Oceanside Mayor Jim Wood said he learned of the death from Police Chief Frank McCoy.

Police responded to Seau's home on The Strand on Wednesday after receiving a call about a reported suicide. The San Diego County medical examiner's office said an investigator was sent to the scene.

Wood said Seau, 43, was beloved in the community and will be deeply missed.

Deeply missed indeed...A hell of a player and a person.

[MontyServo]

Sad news.  It will be interesting to see if he had decided to donate his brain to the scientists studying the effects of concussions on NFL players.  This isn't the first former player to die young in recent years, nor the first to do it to themselves.  A lot of talk that multiple concussions throughout players' careers are playing a part in their early demises.

I know the NFL is trying to do more about the concussion issue, but you still see players taking nasty hits to the head and then back in a few plays later.  Obviously, they are not doing enough.

[Bob]

They think he killed himself after trying it in 2010.

Ugh.

[RVR II]

This really sux!
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