04-14-2017, 01:59 PM
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#261
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Fearmongerer
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Wondering when # became hashtag and not a number sign.
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Ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez, who is already serving a life sentence for a 2013 murder, was acquitted Friday in a 2012 double slaying that prosecutors said was fueled by his anger over a spilled drink.
The jury found Hernandez not guilty of first-degree murder in the killings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado. It convicted him on a single charge: unlawful possession of gun. The judge sentenced him to an additional four to five years in prison, separate from his existing life sentence, for that conviction.
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http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/1...e-murder-trial
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04-14-2017, 03:51 PM
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#262
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Austria, NOT Australia
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looks like Lynch is indeed going to be a Raider.
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Marshawn Lynch is one step closer to playing for his hometown team. According to Michael Silver of the NFL Network, the veteran running back has agreed to a new contract with the Raiders, which sets the stage for him to be traded from the Seahawks.
That part of it shouldn’t be hard, as General Managers John Schneider and Reggie McKenzie have a good enough relationship to make that part of the deal little more than a formality. They worked together with the Packers before ascending to their current posts, and the compensation shouldn’t be all that much.
The Seahawks don’t want Lynch on their books, and the Raiders seem to have figured out a way to make the money work on their end.
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http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...h-the-raiders/
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04-14-2017, 04:42 PM
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#263
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Maryland State House, Annapolis
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Apparently not.
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Shawn LynchVerified account
@MoneyLynch
If u kno me you kno my business is my business and if u don't kno me that's a fun fact for ya... when #### get REAL I'll let you kno!!!!
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https://twitter.com/MoneyLynch/statu...95474877435904
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A source with knowledge of the situation separately tells PFT that the Raiders and Lynch are “not even close to a deal yet.”
Meanwhile, Dave “Softy” Mahler of KJR in Seattle said on the air within the past 20 minutes that agent Doug Hendrickson texted Mahler from Costa Rica to say there’s no deal.
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http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...nto-confusion/
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04-15-2017, 11:36 AM
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#264
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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Todd Heap accidentally hits, kills 3-year-old daughter while moving truck
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/1...r-moving-truck
I can't imagine how horrible that must be from the family. Unfortunately this happens more than you would think with young children around large trucks. I know someone that backed over and killed a young girl in a driveway last year. It was a friend of the family and he's to this day still messed up and not doing well. You really have to be extremely careful with a 4x4 truck around small children.
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04-15-2017, 12:37 PM
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#265
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Victoria
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So Tom Brady deflates balls and we get wall-to-wall coverage. Eli Manning defrauds fans and hardly a peep outside of new york.
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04-18-2017, 06:02 PM
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#266
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: back in the 403
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Pats CB Malcolm Butler finally signs his RFA tender with N.E. Now the trade speculation can officially begin. Let's see if this Butler to N.O. thing is actually gonna happen, or if it was just a bunch of B.S.
I'd happily give back N.O.'s 32nd OA pick they got from the Pats for Cooks, if that's what they want. Then the trade essentially becomes Cooks and a 4th for Butler and a 3rd. I'm down with that. But I also wouldn't be shocked if this trade never materializes
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04-19-2017, 04:59 AM
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#267
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Austria, NOT Australia
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Aaron Hernandez has committed suicide.
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Aaron Hernandez, the former New England Patriots star who was convicted of murder, was found hanged Wednesday morning in the Massachusetts prison where he was serving a life sentence, officials said.
The death of Hernandez, 27, comes just days after he was acquitted in a separate murder case.
Hernandez "was discovered hanged in his cell by corrections officers at the Souza Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley Massachusetts at approximately 3:05 a.m.," the Massachusetts Department of Correction said.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/19/us...inkId=36653659
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04-19-2017, 05:06 AM
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#268
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Maryland State House, Annapolis
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Maybe he finally realized he threw his life and tens of millions away all in the name of "keeping it real".
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04-19-2017, 06:06 AM
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#269
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Lifetime Suspension
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RIP buddy; I remember the good days when you did help me in a few key weeks on my to way to a fantasy football championship in 2010 or 2011.
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04-19-2017, 07:26 AM
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#270
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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Fitting end I suppose seeing how he was a man that had little regard for the lives of others. Hollywood over the years has glamorized gangsters but really there's nothing glamorous about the gangster life. It's an empty life filled with tragedy and death. Good riddance.
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04-19-2017, 09:00 AM
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#271
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Norm!
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I'm not going to mourn him, the football part of his life is irrelevant.
He made choices and they were his choices to kill and he at the end of the day couldn't either live with the prospect of life in a 8x8 cell or with his choices and he took the easy way out.
So long ahole.
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04-19-2017, 10:12 AM
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#272
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Clinching Party
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Getting a little weird now. Of course the story is only a few hours old so that's not unexpected.
His family (who are no doubt in shock/grieving) say he was looking forward to turning his life around, and would not have killed himself. I don't know how you turn your life around when you are in prison for the rest of it, but who knows. There was no suicide note and the reporter (on CBC) seemed to hint that there was suspicion about that.
An earlier story said he had barricaded his own door from the inside, which would seem to rule out anyone else was involved.
The guy was living the dream and had such a future and then just blew it about as bad as you can possibly blow it. I don't think a note is necessary to understand why he would end it all.
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04-19-2017, 10:29 AM
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#273
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Calgary, AB
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This certainly is odd.
Comes just days after he was acquitted of 2 murders and I just read about how him and his lawyers were turning their focus on working towards having the 3rd murder acquitted and that they were confident it would happen. So part 1 is successful and he kills himself before part 2 begins? On the surface this reeks.
No comment on the person or on guilt/innocence, but this incident in isolation just makes very little sense, at least from the outside.
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04-19-2017, 10:59 AM
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#274
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Toronto
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What a waste. Born with talent and he certainly worked hard to actually make the show and then he throws it all away.
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04-19-2017, 11:11 AM
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#275
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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Originally Posted by Jiggy_12
This certainly is odd.
Comes just days after he was acquitted of 2 murders and I just read about how him and his lawyers were turning their focus on working towards having the 3rd murder acquitted and that they were confident it would happen. So part 1 is successful and he kills himself before part 2 begins? On the surface this reeks.
No comment on the person or on guilt/innocence, but this incident in isolation just makes very little sense, at least from the outside.
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Makes a lot of sense to me. We hear about people that commit suicide all the time where few people around them realized they were really depressed. Given he's had a lot of time behind bars to contemplate what he's done, it's possible his last time in court in front of mourning families finally started registering in his mind what he had become. I get that people these days love conspiracy theories but given his cell was barricaded from the inside it would have had to be orchestrated by someone in the inside (working in the prison) which is a little far fetched (although not impossible).
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04-19-2017, 11:16 AM
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#276
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Calgary, AB
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Makes a lot of sense to me. We hear about people that commit suicide all the time where few people around them realized they were really depressed. Given he's had a lot of time behind bars to contemplate what he's done, it's possible his last time in court in front of mourning families finally started registering in his mind what he had become. I get that people these days love conspiracy theories but given his cell was barricaded from the inside it would have had to be orchestrated by someone in the inside (working in the prison) which is a little far fetched (although not impossible).
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For sure. I can't pretend to begin to understand the minds of people who commit suicide so all I can go off is the situation. The timing just seems weird, not that that means anything fishy happened.
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04-19-2017, 11:47 AM
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#277
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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I highly doubt he was going to be acquitted in a successful appeal. The case he was convicted in was pretty airtight. He probably realized this as well, and after a couple years to stew about his stupidity he decided to end it.
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04-19-2017, 12:20 PM
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#278
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Don't click that link!
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Rural Alberta
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I don't think people have to take a side in their mind and feel happy or sad about any of this. It does make for an intriguing story regardless of personal feelings.
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04-19-2017, 01:08 PM
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#279
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Austria, NOT Australia
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Originally Posted by Jiggy_12
The timing just seems weird
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does it? Not even sure about that. Now that the second trial was over, what's left ahead outside of many, many, many years in prison? I won't even try to understand what a person in that situation might feel, but given that parole was not possible and he basically had nothing left to look forward to, I can't say it looks fishy to me. He certainly isn't the first and won't be the last prisoner with lifelong sentences to commit suicide.
The whole story is just a tragedy. A top talent at 20. Multi millionaire at 22. A father at 23. Sentenced to life at 25. Suicide at 27. Just really a sad story all around, and it's a shame that a young person with so much talent turns around and causes so much pain and suffering.
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04-19-2017, 01:23 PM
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#280
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Calgary, AB
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Originally Posted by devo22
does it? Not even sure about that. Now that the second trial was over, what's left ahead outside of many, many, many years in prison? I won't even try to understand what a person in that situation might feel, but given that parole was not possible and he basically had nothing left to look forward to, I can't say it looks fishy to me. He certainly isn't the first and won't be the last prisoner with lifelong sentences to commit suicide.
The whole story is just a tragedy. A top talent at 20. Multi millionaire at 22. A father at 23. Sentenced to life at 25. Suicide at 27. Just really a sad story all around, and it's a shame that a young person with so much talent turns around and causes so much pain and suffering.
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Only saying that because of what I read today, that him and his lawyers were now persuing an acquittal of the other murder and were "optimistic" of their chances. No clue if that optimism is founded on anything but after hearing that, I felt like the timing seemed odd.
But I don't know nearly enough about any of this to really think that way other than just what I read today. So that's all the reasoning I've got.
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