San Diego Chargers News and Rumors
Canepa: Celebrate Seau as a playerMost every great player, no matter the position, is different. No one ever did linebacker like Junior. |
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Chargers players react to Seau's deathMay 3, 2012
Many said they feel connected to the former Chargers linebacker. |
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They were one game from football immortality. But after the Chargers' Super Bowl defeat to the 49ers, the QB of that team learned the meaning of true loss, Dennis Dillon writes. |
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Seau's father visits son's memorialMay 3, 2012
One fan gave Junior Seau's father a hug, as dozens of candles flickered in the early morning light Thursday at the growing memorial in front of the Oceanside home. |
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The Night Junior Seau Picked Up A Marine Captain's Tab And Serenaded Bar Patrons With A UkuleleMay 3, 2012
Dom Cosentino, deadspin.com An email arrived this morning from Albert Flores Jr., a U.S. Marine Corps captain who lives in Sneads Ferry, N.C. It's about a chance encounter Flores had last year in a Southern California bar with Junior Seau, the former Chargers and Patriots lineback… |
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Junior Seau Said Game Had to ChangeMay 3, 2012
Toni Monkovic, nytimes.com In March, the former Chargers star told a Sports Illustrated writer that changes to make the N.F.L. safer "had to happen." |
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Sometimes this is the violent end to a violent sport, another ex-football player, a great one this time, Junior Seau who had his best years with the San Diego Chargers, shooting himself in the chest. |
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Arguably, no local athlete has ever defined the term “icon” as thoroughly as Junior Seau. |
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While the news itself was numbing — terribly sad, profoundly troubling — it provoked the kind of spontaneous outpouring seldom seen in our society. |
