Seattle Seahawk Safety assualted
Fractured Skull and hand and blood clot on the brain.
This really sucks. Ken is a good guy who probably should have just let things go but he didn't deserve to have his head bashed in.
Things are about to get ugly. The guy that is thought to be responsible for the assault ended up dead 5 hrs later. Must be something in the lattes here.
Get well Ken. We'll miss you out on the field this year.
This really sucks. Ken is a good guy who probably should have just let things go but he didn't deserve to have his head bashed in.
Things are about to get ugly. The guy that is thought to be responsible for the assault ended up dead 5 hrs later. Must be something in the lattes here.
Get well Ken. We'll miss you out on the field this year.
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I'm not glad he's got a blood clot in his brain, but if the club owner's story is true (and I believe him over Hamlin's girlfriend), I'm not really sad about it at all either.
With this guy now dead according to news reports it looks like this will turn out like the Ray Lewis incident where there is a fight at a nightclub and then his buddies off the other guy.
I'm not sure how you know that he is a good guy.
I read an article in the Seattle Something or other that finishes with this paragraph:
The concern today is for Hamlin's health. But something has to be done to keep players out of harm's way. To protect players from the public and, in some cases, from themselves.
Win a couple of games and you should be able to rape and pillage.
If he dies they'll make a martyr of him. That's probably reason #1 I don't want him to die.
I only wish he could have just backed off and called it a night. Now he's injured and there is more dirt to follow as they investigate how this guy got toe tagged.
Originally posted by Placebo
Football is the antithesis of a sport; it typically causes you to come out physically worse than better.
Oh please, that is the case in virtually any sport at the professional level.
At the high school level, you're just as likely to sustain a severe injury playing soccer as you are football.
I came through high school football in great shape. It was skiing in college and soccer a year ago that have permanently screwed my knee.
See this article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...082100683.html
I'll paste in a quick little summary, written by Gregg Easterbrook, writing for nfl.com
Still, we are left with the question of whether Herrion's death, or any football-related death, represents an indictment of the sport. This Washington Post story summarizes medical research on the relative risks of childhood activities, including sports participation. Football, as might be guessed, was found the riskiest sport for children and teens as regards minor injuries -- a football player was twice as likely to sustain a minor injury as a basketball player, and five times as likely to sustain a minor injury as a skateboarder. But for "level IV injuries," the kinds that require hospitalization, football was only somewhat more risky than other sports. The surprise in the data is that football is not the most dangerous sport when it comes to permanent disabling injuries. Basketball and baseball, the data show, both cause more permanent disabling injuries, compared to the number of participants. Soccer, which many suburban parents now extol as a "harmless" alternative to football, causes permanent disabling injuries at almost exactly the same rate as football.
He's kind of soft spoken and doesn't drink heavily.
He doesn't drink heavily? I have not heard anything that indicates he was drunk at the time of this fight but the guy is only 24 years old and he already has three arrests and two convictions for drunk driving. If anything those facts suggest that he's very likely a frequent heavy drinker or at the least an occasional heavy drinker with really bad luck when it comes to getting pulled over by the police (3 times in at most 8 years as a licensed driver). Those facts also suggest that he doesn't have very good judgement and that he doesn't learn from his mistakes.