Sadness socked San Diego on Wednesday as news spread of the county’s greatest sports icon having died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Junior Seau shot himself in the chest at his beachside home. He was 43 years old and not quite three years past playing in the last of his 20 NFL seasons.
Luisa Seau sobbed in front of reporters outside her son’s home and cried loudly, “Junior! Why didn’t you tell me you were going?”
A high-profile NFL free agent who is in San Diego covertly training to make a run at playing in 2012 was told the news during a workout.
“Noooo,” the man screamed.
That is how an entire region and many in the NFL felt.
San Diego prides itself on being a big small town. It is not New York, where icons grow on skyscrapers.
Seau, who played 13 seasons for the Chargers, was arguably the biggest star to ever play here. Only Tony Gwynn, who played 19 seasons for the Padres, and former Chargers quarterback Dan Fouts could even compare.
source: http://aol.sportingnews.com/nfl/story/2012-05-02/junior-seau-suicide-seaus-death-shocks-saddens-hometown-and-nfl
