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You Will Have to Kill Junior Seau to Get Him to Stop Playing Football

Dec 8, 2006 – 7:47 PM
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For most men the age of Junior Seau, suffering a broken arm like the one you'll see below means months of rehab, and if they're lucky, they'll one day be again able to open their own pickle jars. But Junior Seau plans to return to the NFL.


Seau was far from useless for the Patriots. Far from the player he once was, obviously, but he was second on the team in tackles before his forearm did a dead fish impression in the middle of a game. But Junior might want to recall that he was about 98% retired when the Patriots desperate need for depth rescued him from retirement. Call me crazy, but I don't think the market will be any hotter for him when he's coming off a broken arm.

That's not to say I think he's making a bad decision, or he shouldn't come back ... that's his own decision to make without judgment from outsiders. But Junior Seau's a guy who just can't envision himself doing anything other than playing football, and whether he likes that or not ... eventually, it will have to become reality.
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