Did you read their statement? Because to me the statement and the hiring of Rusty Hardin send the exact same message- they’re pissed off and looking for someone to blame.

“That’s not like him...” they say.

I remember there was a lot of hubbub locally about the Santa Monica Observer running a story speculating that Skaggs died of an opioid overdose.  They ended up pulling the article due to personal threats against their employees as well as legal threats from attorneys representing the team and the player.  I wonder if…

“....and a horrible way to go.”

I remember a documentary many years ago about the Judas Priest court case, in which a family sued the band for influencing, through its music, their teenaged son to attempt suicide and disable himself for life in the process. As a parent I now understand better their anguish and pain, but the documentarians also…

First and foremost, sympathy to those who lost a loved one, a teammate, and a friend. Opiates suck and have destroyed hundreds of thousands of lives just so we can maximize shareholder value at pharmaceutical companies.

I get the parent’s grief. But blaming some locker room attendant for running out to score him some drugs and not Skagg’s himself is some next level denial. His death is indeed tragic and I wish he got some help, but it was his decision to make this fatal mistake. Jamming up some underling is bullshit.

The family also said in their statement that abusing drugs and alcohol was “completely out of character” for Skaggs.

This is just sad. I battled with addiction for a number of years and have been sober for 4 years now. I count myself lucky that I cleaned myself up before fentanyl started flooding the market. I have known so many people...good people...that have died as a result of this shit that I sometimes feel desensitized to the…

They had no idea. Fuck. I can’t begin to imagine.

The family also said in their statement that abusing drugs and alcohol was “completely out of character” for Skaggs.

You can hate Patriots, and Kraft as well, but you have to admit that Patriots are probably the only team who do not screw players with unfair contracts. They don’t tie up players with tags to prevent them from leaving with no intentions of signing them up and they release players when they don’t intend to pay what the…

Some of them just won a World Cup.

Good for him. I doubt that was easy. I hope he doesn’t take any shit for it.

His entire career is based on a tackle where he wasn’t blocked. Woohoo... In all seriousness, I could have made this tackle.

I don't think Peyton Manning wants to play anymore. 

If only there was an unemployed QB that previously took his team to the Super Bowl available...

Did anyone else get like 40 shoe ads in between each letter? The fuckheads in corporate strike back!

So last year NFL revenues were about 16 billion dollars, of which players get a little less than half, call it 8 billion. 53 NFL players x 32 teams x $60k each = $102 million, for all the players combined. A reduction in pay of 99%.