Has anyone read this yet? Some crazy shit.
Aaron Hernandez: Patriots Tight End Violent Evolution | Rolling Stone
Aaron Hernandez: Patriots Tight End Violent Evolution | Rolling Stone
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agreed. though i thought the clear point that his 'inner demons' surfaced when his redneck no-account self-absorbed gutter-slut idiot mom took over says alot. nothing fixes that, to your point, not even $40m.
given his dad's past, he'd be an interesting study in nurture v nature.
The PCP angle is intriguing as it gives AH plausible deniability for walking around packing (paranoia, which also in enhanced by the company he kept). Also, the Ortiz guy is a known pcp user which kills his credibility. AH and Wallace, who was the other guy in the car along with Ortiz can easily team up and say Ortiz went nuts and pulled the trigger when the plan all along was to simply rough Olin Lloyd up.
I really don't see the murder charge sticking at this point. But the door is wide open for a civil case.
Question is - if AH walks or only gets a couple of years and gets reinstated to the NFL - will the Raiders pick him up. Dude's only 23.
I really don't see the murder charge sticking at this point. But the door is wide open for a civil case.
Question is - if AH walks or only gets a couple of years and gets reinstated to the NFL - will the Raiders pick him up. Dude's only 23.
Not even the Raiders would bring this guy back into the league. He's as good as done.
Writer is very good. I find this to be more of an expose. I mean really, where do you ever read shit like this:
"Like most of Belichick’s recent gestures, this would come back to burn him – he’d lose Gronkowski and Hernandez to injuries. But the seeds of the fiasco were sown years earlier, when Belichick replaced the Pats’ security chief with a tech-smart Brit named Mark Briggs. The NFL and its teams spend millions each year employing a web of former cops and ex-FBI agents to keep an eye on players and their posses. For decades, the Patriots relied on a homegrown crew of retired state troopers to do surveillance. Whenever a player popped up where he didn’t belong – a strip joint in Southie or a weed spot in Brockton – Frank Mendes, the team security chief from 1990 to 2003 and a former state trooper himself, would get a call from his cop or statie friends, whether they were on payroll or not. “I’d have known within a half-hour if Hernandez had gotten in trouble with police,” he says, “and told Belichick and he’d do whatever.” But when Belichick hired Briggs, who’d managed security at London’s Wembley Stadium and had limited street associates in the States, the tips from cops and troopers dried up. “The Patriots aren’t receptive to those kind of calls,” says a law-enforcement official who knows the team and dislikes Briggs. “It’s not a friendly environment to call over.”
Interdasting....
"Like most of Belichick’s recent gestures, this would come back to burn him – he’d lose Gronkowski and Hernandez to injuries. But the seeds of the fiasco were sown years earlier, when Belichick replaced the Pats’ security chief with a tech-smart Brit named Mark Briggs. The NFL and its teams spend millions each year employing a web of former cops and ex-FBI agents to keep an eye on players and their posses. For decades, the Patriots relied on a homegrown crew of retired state troopers to do surveillance. Whenever a player popped up where he didn’t belong – a strip joint in Southie or a weed spot in Brockton – Frank Mendes, the team security chief from 1990 to 2003 and a former state trooper himself, would get a call from his cop or statie friends, whether they were on payroll or not. “I’d have known within a half-hour if Hernandez had gotten in trouble with police,” he says, “and told Belichick and he’d do whatever.” But when Belichick hired Briggs, who’d managed security at London’s Wembley Stadium and had limited street associates in the States, the tips from cops and troopers dried up. “The Patriots aren’t receptive to those kind of calls,” says a law-enforcement official who knows the team and dislikes Briggs. “It’s not a friendly environment to call over.”
Interdasting....
Gets even better:
"In his first remarks after Odin Lloyd’s murder, Robert Kraft described himself as “duped” by Hernandez, saying he’d had no knowledge of his troubles. That is arrant nonsense: Every team knew him as a badly damaged kid with a circle of dangerous friends and a substance problem. Once a Patriot, Hernandez practically ran up a banner that said STOP ME! I’M OUT OF CONTROL! He’d get high all the time driving away from games, say friends of the family, “smoking three or four blunts” in the ride back to his place. He avoided all contact with teammates after practice, even among the guys in his position group, which is unheard of in the league. Since his arrest, several Patriots have called him a “loner,” saying, “No one hung with him.” Retired lineman Matt Light went a step further, telling the Dayton Daily News that he “never believed in anything Hernandez stood for.”
"In his first remarks after Odin Lloyd’s murder, Robert Kraft described himself as “duped” by Hernandez, saying he’d had no knowledge of his troubles. That is arrant nonsense: Every team knew him as a badly damaged kid with a circle of dangerous friends and a substance problem. Once a Patriot, Hernandez practically ran up a banner that said STOP ME! I’M OUT OF CONTROL! He’d get high all the time driving away from games, say friends of the family, “smoking three or four blunts” in the ride back to his place. He avoided all contact with teammates after practice, even among the guys in his position group, which is unheard of in the league. Since his arrest, several Patriots have called him a “loner,” saying, “No one hung with him.” Retired lineman Matt Light went a step further, telling the Dayton Daily News that he “never believed in anything Hernandez stood for.”
It's interesting how those involved with sports, especially violent ones, are often expected to live up to certain standards, but others aren't.
Snoop Dogg = former gang member, convicted for drug dealing and other crimes, charged with murder, claims to smoke 80 blunts a day,
but he gets to guest star on Nickelodeon shows :
The Muppets :
voice a main character in a Dreamworks film :
ring bell and flash Crips gang sign at New York Stock Exchange :
