I survived out of the abyss pin8/27/2023 ![]() Who knows? Maybe brain damage triggered his violent overreaction to a fight with his girlfriend. “In the coming days, Belcher’s actions will be analyzed through the lens of concussions and head injuries. Or as Powell writes: “The lives of Jovan Belcher and Kasandra Perkins will have been in vain completely if we do not go deeper within ourselves to teach and show our sons, our husbands, our fathers, our men and boys, that there is another way.”įrom my friend Jason Whitlock in his column written the night of the shootings for FoxSports.Com: Not to mention that there isn’t a doctor alive, at least a credible one, who will say there is a positive causal link between brain disease from repetitive head trauma and murder.įrom former Democratic congressional candidate Kevin Powell on CNN.com, trying to link the shootings to Belcher’s concept of manliness “in the supersized macho world of football.” As Powell sees it, the nine bullets pumped into Kasandra Perkins had less to do with Belcher’s inherent violence and more to do with what the 25-year-old thought it meant to be a man. ![]() Neither does Derek Flood, which is why he writes in questions. “Did football injuries turn Belcher into a killer? If so, what needs to change in the NFL to avoid such tragedies in the future?” Or maybe it was the alignment of the stars last Saturday morning, or too much after-shave and not enough cologne, or a Q with no U in Words With Friends.įrom Derek Flood in Tuesday’s Huffington Post: The sportswriters take their leap over the facile cliff, predictably churning out predictable mush in the group grope of making the act of Kansas City Chiefs’ linebacker Jovan Belcher into one that doesn’t reflect the act itself but a reflection of our fractured society in which you-name-it-and-it’s-to-blame: lack of gun control, skewed perceptions of manliness, the violence of football turning a person uncontrollably violent in his own personal life. Those facts are something of an impediment perhaps, but not enough of one to kill the oil slick of stories in which a pro football player is depicted as a faltering saint. ![]() Victims are hot, even one who kills a woman friend with nine bullets, then kills himself to leave their 3-month-old daughter an orphan. The Web is stuffed with idle innuendo, stories that pose ominous questions to whet readers’ appetites but never answer them because there are no facts to answer them.
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