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They won't say who it is. has anyone heard this?
I would guess if he killed himself on the Sunday in the locker room or god forbid on the field where fans saw this, the game would have been cancelled. I can't see this being much different than if a player died in a bar fight or domestic incident at home(unless of course he did this in front of teammates or the coaching staff).In 1963, the NFL played its regular Sunday schedule right after JFK's assassination. In 2012 the league ponders cancelling a game because of the death of a black player.
The NFL has announced that the Panthers versus Chiefs game set for 1:00PM ET on Sunday will kick off as scheduled despite the tragic events of Saturday morning that resulted in ILB Jovan Belcher taking his girlfriend's life before ending his own. "After discussions between the league office, Head Coach Romeo Crennel and Chiefs team captains, the Chiefs advised the NFL that it will play tomorrow’s game vs. the Carolina Panthers at its originally scheduled time," read the statement. The Chiefs will be allowed no time to mourn their loss, and Crennel, after witnessing Belcher take his own life on Saturday morning, is now forced to put together a game plan.
I would guess if he killed himself on the Sunday in the locker room or god forbid on the field where fans saw this, the game would have been cancelled. I can't see this being much different than if a player died in a bar fight or domestic incident at home(unless of course he did this in front of teammates or the coaching staff).
Yes the sympathy that drunk fans will show to him wouldn't be the same if they had usual wire story about a player bashing a spouse or another family member.Plus first and foremost the guy was a murderer. Only in CM ruined America would the death of a black murderer who then kills himself be considered grounds to postpone a sports event. On the field or in the locker room before the game would be different, but it'll be interesting to see how NBC and Fox handle it tomorrow during their broadcasts, especially the Chiefs game.
I used to be an EMT at UMaine. Where he went to school.
One night Javon got angry over a girl, and punched a window, the shards of glass cut his wrist, and completely severed his right thumb. When we pulled up on scene he was sitting on the sidewalk, a huge pool of blood around him. He passed out from loss of blood on the way to the ER.
We got him to the hospital in time to save the thumb, and I was always impressed to see him in the NFL. I would think "Hey, I had a part in this guy being alive, and part of the reason he's still able to catch a football!"
So much for that...
According to a friend of Kasandra Perkins, the woman killed today by Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, the couple argued in the early morning hours after the woman was out late attending Friday’s Trey Songz concert at The Midland.
The friend, who asked not to be identified, said Belcher confronted Perkins when she returned home about 1 a.m.
The couple had dated about three years and argued frequently, the friend said, but she wasn’t aware of any prior physical abuse.
It looks like Pioli and Crennel tried to talk Belcher out of his suicide and Belcher did what a lot of suicidal people do and pretend to give up and then he turned away and killed himself. This has a movie of the week spin to this. A horrific situation for all involved.......http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/8697360/kansas-city-chiefs-player-commits-suicide-team-facilityMore "shocking" news:
This clip was posted on Drudge today:
http://www.schnittshow.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=124415&article=10613083
It's an radio show call in from a guy in Long Island that says he knew Belcher when he was a kid. Belcher was a thug and a bully who "stole from and beat up white kids." It's only 5 minutes long.