Junior Seau Shot and Killed

• OhioFan49

  Definitely a suicide....sad day : (
• WebFire

  So, maybe people shouldn't be panicking about concussions?
  
  http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/05/junior_seau_s_suicide_are_concussions_responsible_.html
  

  Former players were 42 percent less likely to die of cancer, 86 percent less likely to die of tuberculosis, and 73 percent less likely to die from digestive problems. And among the athletes who regularly played professional football between 1959 and 1988, a total of nine perished as a result of "intentional self-harm," compared with an expected number of about 22. The sample size was small, but the effect is large: Ex-NFLers were 59 percent less likely to commit suicide.

• dlazz

  WebFire;1178552 wrote:86 percent less likely to die of tuberculosis

  
  thank god they aren't living in 1930 anymore
• thavoice

  WebFire;1178552 wrote:So, maybe people shouldn't be panicking about concussions?
  
  http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/05/junior_seau_s_suicide_are_concussions_responsible_.html

  Good info.
  
  Since all of this stuff has come to light over the last few years I had wondered the same thing in comparison to 'normal' folks. Reguler people suffer from that exact same stuff and kill themselves, and have memory loss, etc etc etc.
  
  I had always wondered what the role once being in the spotlight, a 'hero', someone everyone looks up to, the fame, the $$$, and then removed from it had to do with the onset of depressio amongst former players. You go from being this famous person to all of a sudden a former player. No more limelight. $$ isnt rolling in like it was. You arent such a big deal anymore, and you are in the prime of your life age wise. I think so many have issues with adjusting that it kills them from the inside. For the first time in their lives they arent seen as this football star. A vast majority of NFL players have been in the spotlight since HS and maybe JH. Everyone always raving how good they are, being a local celeb and now they are done. Out of football, at a young age, and with alot of free time and the thing they dedicated their life to is gone. Yeah, they still have a local fame among locals, but once being on the top of the world and now just another retired FB player.
• FatHobbit

  

  thavoice;1178726 wrote: I had always wondered what the role once being in the spotlight, a 'hero', someone everyone looks up to, the fame, the $$$, and then removed from it had to do with the onset of depressio amongst former players. You go from being this famous person to all of a sudden a former player. No more limelight. $$ isnt rolling in like it was. You arent such a big deal anymore, and you are in the prime of your life age wise. I think so many have issues with adjusting that it kills them from the inside. For the first time in their lives they arent seen as this football star. A vast majority of NFL players have been in the spotlight since HS and maybe JH. Everyone always raving how good they are, being a local celeb and now they are done. Out of football, at a young age, and with alot of free time and the thing they dedicated their life to is gone. Yeah, they still have a local fame among locals, but once being on the top of the world and now just another retired FB player.

  Good points
• cruiser_96

  

  Excellent post, thevoice.
  
  I have heard a few college coaches talk about "developing the entire student-athlete". It would seem that they are trying to combat the line of thinking that you speak of... "I'm JUST a football player". The college coaches I have heard say, "No. You are a person. A person who plays football, but a person still." They urge the student-athlete to develop that aspect of their lives.
  
  I'm pretty sure Jim Tressell's book, "The Winner's Manual" has a chapter dedicated to this type of stuff.